CH 19.1

No lights were on in the courtyard, and the faceless servants had disappeared.

The silence in the courtyard magnified the noises in the banquet hall.

Screams of terror, tables and chairs rattling, angry curses, and helpless crying… The paper window reflected the shadow of a man stabbing madly with a knife, and blood splashing.

Voices mingled together, corresponding with the blurry figure on the window paper. The scene presented to Chi Yiyin was as if it was straight from a horror movie. 

The figure behind the window had been staring at him, and his instinct for danger made his muscles tensed, ready to fight back at any time.

“Wha– what’s going on here?”

The aunt also saw this scene, and her eyes widened in horror.

Chi Yiyin couldn’t help but glanced at her, feeling a little surprised.

All the players except him should be in the banquet hall. No matter what the current situation was, it was related to the players. He thought the system would freeze the NPCs as before, but it didn’t?

Had the rules changed? Or… were they the ones who changed?

Chi Yiyin was thinking, but still said something to comfort the aunt: “It should be that the younger siblings are playing with the servants again. Don’t worry and just wait here, auntie. I’ll go and have a look.”

The aunt nodded repeatedly, and pushed Chi Yiyin forward with a look of fear, telling him to go quickly.

When Chi Yiyin looked at the window facing the courtyard in the banquet hall again, the figure who was watching him before had disappeared.

It was at this moment that Chi Yiyin recognized that the owner of one of the voices was Tong Yao.

“Go away! She is your elder sister, how could you treat her like this!”

“Li Li!!! You dare to step on a horse! You actually used me as a shield!”

Tong Yao’s voice had lost the calmness that Chi Yiyin was familiar with. There was panic in addition to anger, faintly asking for help from others.

Chi Yiyin originally planned to take this opportunity to watch from the outside, and to see the unintentional reactions of the players when they were panicked, so he could grasp some details. But after realizing that Tong Yao needed help, he pondered for a while, and immediately ran to the banquet hall with his long legs.

The figure on the window swayed, and the screams resounded throughout the night sky, and then there was no sound.

[Warning! Survivor Xiao has died, the current instance time is reduced by one day. The countdown is 94:01:09]

Following the system’s announcement, everyone in the banquet hall seemed to have gone quiet for a moment, but was then followed by more intense fighting sounds.

At this time, Chi Yiyin had also arrived at the door to the banquet hall.

The burly faceless servants stood in a row with their hands behind their backs, forming a human wall around the banquet hall, silently preventing the people inside from coming out.

When they saw Chi Yiyin, a servant immediately stretched out his hand, grabbed him and tried to detain him.

The servant Kong Wu is powerful, and is as strong as a hill, each of his move could cause the ground to vibrate, and his big fan-like hands seemed to be able to tear apart a living person on its own.

Chi Yiyin’s eyes froze, he stepped on the railing of the veranda next to him, jumped up with a kick and quickly avoided the servant’s overstretched arm. Then, like a fish, he slipped through a gap made by the human wall exposed when the servant moved. He quickly passed the servants and rushed to the door of the banquet hall.

The servant didn’t expect Chi Yiyin to have such a reaction, he turned around clumsily, wanting to grab him again.

But it was too late.

He immediately pushed the door open, and with his slender figure, the moment there was a gap in the door, he rushed in, and then closed the door heavily with his backhand, just in time to shut the big hand of the servant that was grabbing from the door.

With a sound of “bang!” the fan-like hand slapped the door panel, causing waves of vibrations.

Chi Yiyin breathed a sigh of relief, and stepped back half a step away from the door. He straightened out the wrinkles on his suit, and when he saw the trembling of the door panel, a smile appeared in his eyes.

The players who were locked in the banquet hall didn’t expect that Chi Yiyin, who was no longer in the banquet hall, would take the initiative to die and rushed back. When they saw Chi Yiyin’s figure clearly, they were a little dazed for a while.

The audience before the live broadcast was also puzzled: [Is he crazy? He’s no longer within the range of NPCs attack, why did he still run back?]

[Fuck, you think you don’t die fast enough? You obviously made a good move. It’s definitely an advantage to not be in the banquet hall, being outside with the aunt is equivalent to being on a safe island. Why are you going back?]

[It’s starting again! Good cards beating bad ones. I now admit that he is not a newcomer, this is not stupid at all, this is crazy!!! I think he really might be “Pope” and that’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.]

[I was still laughing at him before, but he not only survived a few times, but also triggered a key plot… My face hurts, I dare not do it now. This is definitely the operation of a big shot.]

As soon as Li Li shot a faceless servant who was coming towards him, he found that the surroundings became strangely quiet. He wiped the blood on his hands and straightened up, and saw Chi Yiyin standing at the door. He was smiling while looking at them.

His pupils constricted instantly, and he looked at Tong Yao.

Could it be that Chi Yiyin came back for Tong Yao? Abandoning an advantageous situation and rushing back for others. Is he Virgin Mary?

No, it might really be the butcher couple.

The surviving players all found Chi Yiyin, and their eyes wandered between Chi Yiyin and Tong Yao, each with their own thoughts.

When Chi Yiyin turned to look at the banquet hall, the first thing he saw was the mess of blood all over the floor, and a young man fell to the ground with his eyes open, his entire chest was torn to pieces, and he had no breath left.

As for Tong Yao, she was entangled by the two younger brothers and had no time to care about other things. She was more embarrassed than everyone else.

The youngest brother hugged her foot tightly, allowing her to kick around without making a sound nor letting her go. The older brother strangled her neck from behind. The angry cursing turned into hoarse breathing.

Tong Yao rolled her eyes, and was about to be strangled to death.

Chi Yiyin strode over the corpses of players and servants on the ground, but when he was walking quickly towards Tong Yao, a figure rushed out diagonally and blocked him.

He took a closer look and saw that it was the younger sister.

The pretty dress on the younger sister’s body was already covered in blood, and the corners of her mouth were still smeared with flesh and blood. The blood-smeared face was lined with a grin that distorted the originally delicate features, making her looked weird.

She tilted her head, looked at Chi Yiyin and asked softly, “Elder sister, where have you been? Why didn’t you come with me?”

“Sister, do you dislike Yulan?”

T/N: Yulan = younger sister’s name

As the younger sister spoke, she wanted to grab Chi Yiyin with her bloody hands. Her thin voice had a strange power, as if it could confuse people’s hearts, causing the people she looked at to have weird hallucinations, as if he was the real Ma Yuze.

Chi Yiyin’s eyes went blank for a moment.

A strange scene blurred before his eyes.

The younger sister was sitting on the swing in front of Ma Yuze’s boudoir. When she raised her head, she looked at the second-story building with gloomy eyes, spitting out her tongue like a poisonous snake. But Ma Yuze, who was sitting in front of the window and dressing up, was ignorant of this, and when she saw her younger sister, she smiled and waved at her.

In the study, Madam Ma praised Ma Yuze as a good girl, who was as good as a man in reading and writing. Outside the study, the younger sister’s nails scratched the embroidery in her hand, and her face, which was about to seek praise from her mother, became distorted, and her eyes full of resentment.

When seeing her off in front of the station, the mother waved goodbye to Ma Yuze on the train with tears in her eyes, and the younger sister’s eyes showed envy and longing, but they then turned into anger and envy.

At the temple for burning incense and worshiping Buddha, Madam Ma knelt down in front of Buddha devoutly, praying for the safety of her children. But the younger sister bit her finger and wrote on the ground, one stroke at a time: Let my sister die outside and don’t come back again.

Scenes flashed before Chi Yiyin’s eyes, and the sky was spinning, as if his soul was swept into a vortex, unable to break free.

He clenched his teeth, trying to keep his mind clear, and secretly tried to remember the scene he saw in his heart.

But a scene that flashed by in an instant suddenly attracted Chi Yiyin’s attention.

The younger sister sneaked into the study and saw the elder sister’s letter for the family. Unfortunately, the mother just walked into the study when she opened it without authorization. She didn’t blame the younger sister, but asked her with a kind smile if she could understand the letter.

The joke from the mother made the younger sister feel humiliated and belittled. She said loudly that she was also literate, and of course she could understand.

But when the mother asked about the content of the letter, the younger sister, who was illiterate, could only bite the bullet and made it up in a panic. She said that her sister had a boy she liked in Shanghai, maybe she will stay in Shanghai in the future and never come back.

The mother was devastated, but forced a smile on her face, saying that it was fine in Shanghai, Yuze is a golden phoenix, and she shouldn’t stay in such a small place as Gushu Town.

The younger sister who was secretly delighted that she could monopolize her mother’s attention in this way became even more angry and astonished, jealous of her mother’s expectation and care for her elder sister.

She rushed back to her room angrily, and when the servant girl who cared about her asked, she said—”My sister has a wild heart. She made friends at school, and won’t come back.”

Chi Yiyin’s eyes widened instantly, a chill in his heart.

No wonder, no wonder, there were rumors spreading in the Ma family… The source of the rumor that finally ruined Ma Yuze’s reputation turned out to be a lie fabricated by her younger sister.

When rumors started to spread in Ma’s house and Gushu Town, the younger sister was a little flustered at first, knowing that she had caused trouble. She went to her mother’s room and wanted to confess, but she heard her mother’s crying and her father’s disappointed curses, saying that Yuze was not as sensible as Yulan.

This sentence hit her, she then retreated in front of the door, and smiled happily.

She realized that as long as her sister’s reputation was ruined, she could logically become the only young miss of Ma family. The love of her parents, a great marriage, and even family wealth were all waiting for her.

The younger sister kept silent and stopped explaining the rumors, but followed the rumors and her parent’s disappointment about her sister with malice. She thought proudly, now, her sister can finally disappear.

Chi Yiyin suddenly felt that he was actually Ma Yuze. He was caught by countless cold hands. The darkness that surrounded him was full of whispers and strange laughter with unclear meanings. Eyes fell on him with malice, like a rabbit being watched by wolves

Grievance, anger, despair, helplessness, fear…

All kinds of emotions overlapped in his heart, as if all Ma Yuze’s emotions had reappeared within him.

Just as he was about to be engulfed by the whirlpool, Chi Yiyin took a sharp bite at the tip of his tongue and using its pain to hold on to clarity. He hesitated for a moment, but his finger still extended to the swift bird brooch.

Ma Yuze, was that how you used to feel?

Chi Yiyin’s eyes became firm again.

Such a home, what’s to talk about forgiveness!

The moment such an idea appeared in his mind, behind his back, the air fluctuated and a red figure slowly emerged.

The female ghost looked at Chi Yiyin with a complicated expression, but when she looked up and saw her younger sister’s face, her eyes became angry again.

A howling sound filled in the air, and the invisible sound waves spread around.

The scene in front of Chi Yiyin was suddenly broken, the whirlpool disappeared, and his consciousness began to return to normal.

The younger sister looked at Chi Yiyin’s back in shocked and horror, her teeth clattered unconsciously: “El—, elder sister… how can you?”

In the blink of an eye, Chi Yiyin, who had regained his power after regaining his clarity, looked at the younger sister’s sharp claws that was stretched out towards his eyes, and immediately guessed that in just a short moment, she had lowered his alertness by confusing his mind and attacked him while he was immersed in the past scenes.

But what she didn’t expect was that her sister’s ghost was right behind Chi Yiyin.

At the critical moment, the female ghost chose to help Chi Yiyin.

After the younger sister lost her ability to confuse Chi Yiyin, the situation was suddenly reversed.

He neatly grabbed her palm that was about to stab him in the eye, and with a force, a crisp sound rang.

“Crack!” The sound of joints being broken that made one’s teeth ache.

Immediately, one of the younger sister’s arms fell to a limp, it was fractured in an instant.

The younger sister’s face was distorted with pain, mixed with the shock, it made her look as  hideous as a ghost.

Seeing that Chi Yiyin had made another move, the younger sister dared not try to be brave. She looked behind Chi Yiyin in fear, and then gritted her teeth. She forced herself to break her own arm to free herself from Chi Yiyin’s hold.

Blood splattered.

Chi Yiyin frowned, and took a step back in disgust, not wanting the blood to stain even a corner of his clothes.

The younger sister glanced at Chi Yiyin bitterly, then turned around and ran away.

The faceless servants around rushed over immediately, surrounded the younger sister, and escorted her away.

However, Chi Yiyin had no intention of catching up.

Don’t chase after the poor. Besides, he still needed to keep her alive so that he could find more truths about the Ma family.

Chi Yiyin’s movements attracted the attention of all players, even the players who were fighting with the faceless servants stopped and looked at Chi Yiyin in astonishment.

In less than a dozen seconds, Chi Yiyin easily solved the most difficult younger sister?

The players who couldn’t see the female ghost were all suspicious and raised their guard against Chi Yiyin. Only Li Li noticed the “elder sister” that the younger sister blurted out in a panic.

He rubbed his chin and looked thoughtfully at the air behind Chi Yiyin.

Chi Yiyin didn’t have time to deal with other people, he immediately walked towards Tong Yao quickly after getting rid of the younger sister.

The moment the boy and Chi Yiyin looked at each other, he was startled by the indifference in those eyes, and subconsciously relaxed his grip on Tong Yao, giving Tong Yao, who was already exhausted, a chance to breathe for a while.

Chi Yiyin didn’t leave much time for the young boy to react, he directly picked up a chair next to him with one hand, and threw it at the young boy.

The boy instinctively avoided, and let go of Tong Yao.

Watching this moment, with a quick glance and hand, Chi Yiyin pulled Tong Yao towards him, making her fall to the ground behind him, while he faced the young boy directly.

“Younger brother.”

Chi Yiyin slowly gave a warm smile to the boy, but his eyes were cold voice was low: “Ma Qing, long time no see—have you been well?”

Taking advantage of the moment when the boy didn’t react, he picked up a pair of chopsticks on the dining table. The slender wooden sticks flipped flexibly in his hands, as if alive. At this time, it was no longer a utensil for eating, but a weapon capable of killing people.

The next second, the chopsticks pointed straight at the boy’s throat.

“Puff!”

The chopsticks pierced the boy’s throat with no mercy, blood splattered to a height of two meters, the entire ceiling was covered with splashes of blood. There was blodd everywhere, messy and cruel.

The boy didn’t expect Chi Yiyin to be so decisive. He covered his throat with both hands in disbelief, desperately trying to cover the wound, but blood still gushed out from between his fingers.

He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something to Chi Yiyin, but he only made a breathy sound of “heh heh.”

Whether it be the players in the banquet hall or the audience before the live broadcast, everyone was stunned and couldn’t recover for a while.

Until a child’s sharp cry pierced with the dead silence of the room.

The youngest brother who was holding Tong Yao’s legs tightly cried and rushed towards Chi Yiyin, waving his fists and trying to hit him.

But Chi Yiyin swiftly took two steps to the side to avoid it.

[Warning! Survivor Chi Yiyin has triggered the “Quarrel Between Brothers,” and the current NPC’s comprehensive hatred value is 75/100!]

[There are eyes in the dark, watching you all the time. Behind the walls you can’t see, on the corners you ignore, the moments when you let your guard down… Be careful, they’re going to kill you.]

Chi Yiyin was indifferent to the system’s piercing alarm. He held the chopsticks that were still dripping with blood in one hand while quietly watching the boy clutching his throat and slowly kneeling on the ground, twitching and falling into a pool of blood.

The child cried and threw himself on his brother, looking at Chi Yiyin with hatred in his eyes.

But in the next second, the boy’s body disappeared out of thin air, and the child disappeared along with him.

A malicious gaze fell on Chi Yiyin, and he immediately raised his eyes to look directly at the source of that gaze.

Then he saw that on the window paper was slowly being stained by blood. Behind the small hole that had been torn, an eye rolled and looked at him through that hole.

The shadow of the thing outside was cast on the window paper, and the moment Chi Yiyin looked over, it disappeared like smoke.

The three younger siblings all left the banquet hall, and the rest of the faceless servants also stopped stiffly, retreated slowly, and disappeared into the banquet hall like marionettes.

In the large hall, except for the blood and corpses left all over the floor, everything was silent.

Chi Yiyin slowly looked away, and casually threw the chopsticks in his hand back on the dining table.

He straightened the wrinkle on his suit’s cuffs and, once again, became an elegant gentleman. As if the madness and ferocity of repelling the younger siblings in a short moment just now were but others’ illusion.

He was even smiling.

The audience before the live broadcast felt chills down their spines.

[This… is he really human? Not a demon?]

[Too decisive, even I would hesitate. After all, this is an NPC that has blood relation to his character.]

[Just now, someone said that the anchor is Virgin Mary, you come out. Is your Virgin Mary like this? Isn’t this Bloody Mary?]

Only a certain teenager crunched on his lollipop and laughed.

“I didn’t expect the one pretending to be me to be so interesting. I didn’t expect that… the game of truth and falsehood to suddenly became interesting.”

He murmured and took out a mobile phone with rabbit doll hanging on it, and dialed someone: “When can I enter the instance?”

“Soon.”