Enraged, the Ghost Bride screamed again, and immediately the Mourning-clad Sha in Nuonuo clothes dragged them inside. The child ghosts trembled with fear.
"Let's get married!"
The child ghosts screamed and shoved Jiang Nuo and Si Yan, wishing they could get married on the spot.
"Oh, how kind of you."
Jiang Nuo grabbed Si Yan's hand to prevent further trouble.
He whispered at the same time, "It can't work. Since it's a ghost marriage, one of them must be dead."
"We cannot die from the power of ghosts and monsters, for the rules here are more difficult to resist than the ghosts themselves."
Si Yan suddenly tensed up and gripped their clasped hands tightly. " Nuonuo... I'm afraid of pain."
I don't want to leave you alone.
Jiang Nuo understood the meaning behind what seemed like a random sentence.
"Be good, I'll be out soon."
"But what if this is reality? Then you could kill me..."
Si Yan's words were cut off as he collapsed into Jiang Nuo's arms, stabbed in the abdomen—a swift and clean death.
" Nuonuo..."
He gripped Jiang Nuo's hand tightly, unwilling to pull himself out of his thoughts.
Jiang Nuo hugged him tightly and gently kissed his cheek. "Don't worry, we'll meet again. Wait for me to come out."
Having said that, he drew his dagger.
The light in Si Yan's eyes vanished instantly, as if he had become an empty shell without a soul, and his body fell to the ground.
The child ghosts who surrounded them as they entered the mourning hall. "...?"
What's the meaning??
Aren't you two head over heels in love with each other?
How could you kill him?!
The live chat exploded with comments.
"... I laughed in anger..."
[ Si Yan is real... this is what happens when you're on the same team as Jiang Nuo.]
[Damn, Jiang Nuo is really ruthless... he even killed his partner!!]
" Jiang Nuo, are you out of your mind?! What good would it do you to kill everyone???"
Are you all deaf or brain-dead? Jiang Nuo just said he was waiting for him to come out! So this is also an illusion!
"Nonsense, how could that be? This is where we've been since we first entered the village. You mean...?"
The comments section froze instantly.
Many people began to understand the key to it, and the more they thought about it, the more horrifying it became.
So... they were in an illusion from the very beginning?
"Holy crap... what happened to the woods? Weren't they in the woods at the beginning?"
"Damn, the live stream hasn't been replayed yet, otherwise I really want to go back and watch it again!"
So which side is real? When did they enter the illusion?!
[I'm so anxious! Jiang Nuo, please solve this mystery quickly!]
The Ghost Bride appeared in the mourning hall in surprise.
"Don't you love him very much?"
Jiang Nuo wiped the blood from the dagger, her eyes sharp and cold, her smile deepening as she spoke with a venomous tongue.
Whether I love him or not is none of your business.
"But you, unable to get married yourself, resort to dragging others into it. Are you out of your mind?"
The Ghost Bride was so angry that she vomited blood.
No one knows who killed her groom!
You killed him! You beast!
Jiang Nuo was surprised. "Otherwise, are you just waiting for him to come and kill me?"
"I will kill you!" His hatred was extreme.
Jiang Nuo glanced at them, a defiant smile on her face. "Sorry, it seems you can't do it."
Ghost Bride: "..."
She lowered her head and looked down at Si Yan's corpse lying on the ground, her pale fingers twitching as she released Resentment Threads.
The corpse on the ground slowly stood up, its body stiff, and opened its eyes to look at Jiang Nuo.
Jiang Nuo tilted her head, her eyes mischievous. "What, trying to use Si Yan to bewitch me?"
" Nuonuo..."
Si Yan's corpse murmured softly, but was completely wooden, like a puppet on a string.
"Alas."
Jiang Nuo pursed her lips. "Really?"
"A fake is a fake, and a thousand fakes won't make a difference to me."
He slowly looked at the Ghost Bride, "Your turn."
The next instant, his figure vanished, and he appeared swiftly behind the Ghost Bride, carrying out a cannon.
Seeing this, the Ghost Bride had no choice but to call for help again.
She retreated to the edge of the mourning hall, where the two sisters, Shuishui and Qianqian, appeared hand in hand, their faces pale and sorrowful.
The zombie bite marks on Shuishui's neck have not disappeared. Even Qian Qian, who asked for help on Weibo and said she was Qianqian, had half of her face bitten off, which was extremely terrifying.
Jiang Nuo frowned, lowered the cannon, and sighed helplessly, "So... you still died."
"Even after seeking help on Weibo, something still happened, right?"
Tears streamed down her Qianqian festering face, and her voice was filled with deep resentment, "Zombies are so powerful... The talisman... can only save my life once."
"Ouch, that hurts..."
She sobbed Qianqian, "I just came here for sightseeing... it hurts so much."
"Didn't the Daoxuan Organization say they sent people to rescue us? Didn't you see them?"
Although Jiang Nuo asked this question, she had not actually seen those two members since arriving in Fragrant Water Village.
The only information they had was that when Ghost King He Jiu picked them up, he said that the two members had gone to the mountains to investigate.
Qianqian only said she didn't know, her cries growing more and more painful as she touched the half of her face that had been bitten off, "It hurts so much..."
"Why didn't you come to save me sooner... why!"
"I've liked you for a long time... I'm your fan..."
Shuishui was quiet, but equally sad, her eyes filled with resentment.
Oh my god... I can't believe it... I met them in person just last month, and they're gone just like that...
So that plea for help on Weibo that day was the last signal Qianqian left in this world.
Jiang Nuo is so useless!! He can't even protect his own fans!
[Isn't Jiang Nuo embarrassed? He clearly had the ability to save her, yet he didn't discover anything. He's such a useless piece of trash!]
"That's not quite right... Jiang Nuo responded quickly that day, but he didn't expect the zombies in Fragrant Tree Village to be so powerful... and even if he flew, he couldn't get to the scene immediately."
[Damn it, fans, stop defending him! Jiang Nuo is useless! He couldn't save anyone, and he even killed a guest!]
Jiang Nuo remained silent, glanced at the Ghost Bride outside the mourning hall, and suddenly smiled, "I didn't kill her, yet you're blaming me."
Qianqian angry, "Don't you feel even a little bit guilty?!"
There is nothing I should feel guilty about.
Jiang Nuo smiled, her eyes devoid of warmth. "I'm not a good person, don't have too high expectations."
Qianqian: "..."
She couldn't continue her story and quietly glanced outside the mourning hall.
"Stop looking, she can't beat me."
Jiang Nuo held up two fingers and waved them. "I'll give you two choices: leave on your own or get bombarded to ashes."
Qianqian and Shuishui both looked at the cannon muzzle, which was bigger than their heads.
After a few seconds of silence, disregarding the control of the Ghost Bride's Resentment Threads, they disappeared quickly, hand in hand.
Jiang Nuo once again hoisted the cannon, aimed it at the Ghost Bride outside the mourning hall, narrowed his left eye, and shouted, "Bang!"
The tone was excited, like beams of energy surging forth.
The Ghost Bride never expected that no corpse controlled by the Resentment Threads could disturb Jiang Nuo's peace of mind.
This person is more heartless than a ghost!
She was terrified and instinctively tried to defend herself, but this inadvertently revealed the place where she was hiding her ulterior motives.
Jiang Nuo glanced at the dying ghost fetus in the corner, raising an eyebrow slightly. "I've caught it."