Remove Her Head, and She Was Still a Beauty

"Hey, ghost, would you mind coming out and opening the door?"

Though no one said it aloud, it was the shared thought of every player present.

The veteran players present might not all be Grade C big shots who had completed special advancement rituals, but they had all gone through several Weird Games and were at least seasoned Grade D players.

Yet even combining all their past experience with what they had learned from higher-ranked players, none of them had encountered a situation like this.

The Weird Game instance had begun, but they could not get in?

Then why had they been dragged here to participate in this Weird Game?

If they were only meant to watch, they could have watched from outside the game!

The veteran players stared wide-eyed at one another, utterly bewildered and dumbfounded.

"Could it be that something has happened to the Endless Dormitory Building?" one veteran player could not help asking, his face full of terror.

"You mean... a special advancement ritual?" A Grade C big shot's expression changed as well.

There were two situations in the Weird Game that were the most troublesome. One of them occurred when some Grade D Rank 1 players needed to advance, but there was no suitable instance in the Weird Game. Then, in order to let those Grade D Rank 1 players advance, it would proactively create a suitable instance.

And the birth of such instances usually required a large number of sacrifices.

"What? An advancement ritual instance?"

As soon as those words fell, none of the veteran players present could sit still. Not only did the Grade D players look awful, even the Grade C big shots were no better off.

They might have passed advancement rituals before, but that did not mean they had the strength to contend with this kind of instance.

Just as the players were making all sorts of uneasy guesses, inside the dormitory building, Tan Shuchang finally sensed that the vicious ghost was about to appear.

This was a six-story dormitory building.

Since it only had six floors, there was no elevator. As the hour and minute hands on a clock aligned into a single line, the world, which had merely been dim, abruptly became so dark one could not see their own hand before their face.

At least, that was how things changed inside the dormitory building. Outside, the sky had not changed in the slightest. Those Weird Game players who could not enter because someone had locked the doors and windows and sealed off the floors had no awareness of this at all. In their perception, only around ten minutes had passed.

At this moment, amid the darkness, on the third floor of the dormitory building, a patch of turbid liquid suddenly burst from a wall streaked with strange yellowish-brown marks. It looked like blood, yet seemed mixed with something else.

Then, from that puddle of liquid, a pair of pale human hands covered in all manner of filthy stains stretched out!

Next, the figure of a sexy woman with long, slender legs crawled out of the turbid liquid. She had short hair and stood motionless with her head lowered, her hands hanging slightly at her sides. After a while, as a gust of chilling wind swept past, the woman began to move.

First, she let out a shrill howl. It was a ghostly sound that could pierce the human mind. Players with insufficient Malice Resistance and Pollution Resistance would directly bleed from all seven orifices and die from that howl.

However, few players died to this female ghost's first shrill howl.

Because this was a customary howl, merely informing the Weird Game players in the instance that the vicious ghost had appeared. Whether they could survive from here on depended on whether they were careful and cautious enough.

The Endless Dormitory Building game instance was a rules-based slaughter instance.

That was to say, the vicious ghost within the dormitory building would continuously kill game players, but it did not kill arbitrarily or at random. It was restricted by rules.

As long as game players could find the rules, then even if they stood right in front of the vicious ghost, it would not attack them.

However, the reason this dormitory building instance was called Endless was not because the space inside was infinite, but because the vicious ghost's rule restrictions constantly changed.

And that was the fundamental reason game players had so often been wiped out in the past.

After the female ghost finished howling, she began the next step of her routine: finding a lucky victim to slaughter. But she had barely moved when she stopped.

Because she saw a blurry figure appear before her.

Yes, blurry.

It was a humanoid creature that seemed to have formed from flowing blood.

At this moment, after seeing that the female ghost showed no other reaction, the blurry figure sighed. "I knew it. How could I possibly have a younger sister here with the same mother but a different father?"

The blurry figure instantly became clear, and every trace of flowing blood vanished, as though it had all been nothing but an illusion.

"This young lady, I am the student Tan Shuchang, born of a scholarly family and once named on the Golden List, though I was stripped of my scholarly honors for beating up three princes. I am from Capital Prefecture and now reside in Yue Prefecture. Might I invite you to settle there with me?" Tan Shuchang extended the invitation. He looked the female ghost up and down and found that, if her head were removed, she could absolutely be considered a graceful beauty.

But whether Tan Shuchang's gaze had provoked the female ghost or the second step of her routine had begun, her response was an instant pounce to kill him.

The vicious ghost's malice crashed down on Tan Shuchang like a tidal wave. Had it been an ordinary novice player, they would already have died from malice entering their body and draining their mental strength.

But to Tan Shuchang, it was naturally little different from a gentle breeze brushing his face.

With his Malice Resistance, Pollution Resistance, Supernatural Resistance, and Destruction Resistance all rated Grade A Rank 1, he was more vicious and ferocious than most vicious ghosts in this Weird Game.

"Since that is the case, then please forgive this student's rudeness, young lady." Tan Shuchang reached out and seized the female ghost by the neck, suspending her stiffly in midair. Then he folded her in half, and folded her again, until she could be tucked into his sleeve.

At that very instant, Tan Shuchang's figure vanished from the Endless Dormitory Building instance.

Meanwhile, while the veteran players outside the dormitory building remained lost and helpless amid their various speculations, unable to sense the passage of time, bloody words suddenly appeared in the sky.

[Game over.]

[A vicious ghost disappearance has been detected. The Endless Dormitory Building instance will permanently close and will only reopen once a new vicious ghost moves in. Players, please note that exiting may cause adverse reactions. Drink more hot water to recover.]

The prompt was as heartwarming as ever. While these veteran players felt a little relieved, they were even more confused and baffled.

"How did it suddenly end?"

"Wait, the vicious ghost disappeared!"

"How could a vicious ghost disappear?"

"Vicious ghosts can disappear. I happened to hear someone mention that it occurred in a novice instance not long ago."