After Ning Su finished speaking, he glanced over at Fang Qi.
Fang Qi was also talking with Xue Wei and Gu Xinghua.
Perhaps they were also aware that the destination was the underworld, as indicated by the system prompt [Do good deeds without asking about the future] and the trial in the underworld. At this moment, both Xue Wei and Gu Xinghua wore solemn expressions.
Xue Wei’s solemnity lasted only for a short while.
Presumably, for her, even if she had to undergo eighteen layers of judgment, she would find a way to get through it.
Gu Xinghua wasn’t as relaxed.
Fang Qi remained quiet, staring intently at a particular human pupa.
Throughout the journey, he had not committed any wrongdoings against humans or ghosts. In the past few days, he had even helped some ghosts with various small tasks. Even if there was a trial, he would have no problem at all.
Ning Su looked at him for a few seconds and then called him up to the deck.
The ship sailed slower and slower, the eerie crimson plants becoming more apparent in the darkness, indicating that the destination was near.
Two young men stood on the deck, the air filled with a pungent smell of salt.
Fang Qi: “Are you trying to ask me...”
“No,” Ning Su interrupted, shaking his head. “I want to give you something.”
Fang Qi looked at him in astonishment as Ning Su conjured a horrifying human head out of thin air and placed it in his hands. “It’s for you.”
Fang Qi: “...”
No one could have expected such a gift.
He wasn’t like Shi Tianzhu, who enjoyed collecting certain types of heads.
Ning Su urged him in a low voice, “Do you have any storage items? If not, quickly store it in your system space.”
Fang Qi really didn’t want to store such a human head in his system space.
Under Ning Su’s urging, he reluctantly put it away.
Ning Su said, “This is the head of the human pupa master’s younger sister. Her sister is the one she loves the most, the only person she truly cares about. She means a great deal to her.”
Fang Qi was stunned.
Ning Su quickly told Fang Qi everything he knew and his guesses.
Ling Xiao asked Ning Su if he wanted to help Fang Qi, and Ning Su had considered it.
Ning Su’s considered solution was to use the sister’s severed head to exchange for a human pupa.
That night, Xue Wei said that if it was really her sister, she would go and hug her no matter what.
This showed the position of her sister in her heart.
If she knew it was really her sister, and she destroyed her sister’s body, she would definitely agree to exchange the severed head for a human pupa.
However, Ning Su hadn’t figured out yet how a human pupa would survive after being exchanged back.
He asked Pang Yang, but Pang Yang couldn’t explain it clearly.
The human pupa canister was a skill weapon Xue Wei obtained from a dungeon world, specifically for breeding human pupa.
Ning Su felt that in some ways, this human pupa canister was like the holy water in the <Flower Servant> instance.
In the <Flower Servant> instance, the bodies of flower attendants had already transcended the human category. If it was the real world, they would have died long ago, since they were relying solely on holy water to keep them alive.
This human pupa canister should also have similar effects, being able to transform and maintain the life of mutated people.
The pupa couldn’t leave the canister for too long.
Originally, Ning Su planned to ask Shi Tianzhu and Ning Changfeng to learn more about human pupae before deciding on what to do next.
But since Fang Qi had already made a choice, Ning Su didn’t plan to interfere further in this matter.
“Take it. Maybe it will be useful to you. How you use it is up to you.”
Fang Qi bit his lower lip until it bled before letting go, and hoarsely said, “Thank you.”
Ning Su approached him and, with his experienced, whispered to the other, “However, if you take this head out, the system will deduct a lot of points from you.”
Fang Qi: “...”
What Ning Su was thinking was if there were no ghost master in this instance, then there wouldn’t be any skill weapons for players to get. The main focus would be on points, and losing points would be quite unfortunate.
He glanced at Fang Qi, patted his shoulder, and left.
When he came back, several players were mingling among the corpses.
The player in front started off well by using the guilt, love, and hatred of the deceased from the previous three rounds, soothing these corpse ghosts in a complementary manner.
This method was very effective.
Without revealing their own identity, they helped the others overcome their lingering pain by taking the perspective of the person they couldn’t let go of the most.
Ning Su sat on the bed for a while.
Pang Yang said, “Are you going over? There isn’t much time left.”
Ning Su shook his head. “It’s almost time.”
In these past ten days, how much did they accomplish? Not being discovered and killed by the ghosts was already quite challenging, and now there were only eight players left. Ning Su speculated that the final judgment might not be too harsh.
Pang Yang said, “I’ve told the other players about our speculation regarding the underworld, and they’re all very anxious now.”
He sighed, “These ghosts had been trying to kill us along the way, and yet we still have to do good deeds for them. In the end, we might even face judgment. It’s like we have no human rights at all.”
Ning Su said, “In the underworld, what human rights are you talking about?”
Pang Yang: “...”
Ning Su said, “Who said we are the exception?”
Pang Yang: “...You’re right.”
At midnight, the ship docked.
Miss Driver rang the bronze bell and led them off the ship.
It was already dark here during the day, let alone at midnight.
As soon as they got off the ship, they were on a long and high bridge. Apart from the blood-red plants on the bridge, there was only darkness where one couldn’t even see their own hands.
The players followed the corpses ahead, initially quiet and cautious. They walked for a long time without seeing an end, still deeply engulfed in the darkness. Their hearts pounded nervously, and they began to chat and pull each other along.
Pang Yang: “Are we really going to the underworld?”
Ning Su: “Are you scared?”
“Thinking that we can enter the underworld and see the King of Hell without having to die, it’s both frightening and exciting.”
Ning Su: “...”
He grabbed onto Ling Xiao’s coat and asked, “If there really is a King of Hell, do you know him?”
Pang Yang: “?”
Ning Su asked him, “Could the King of Hell be your child too?”
Pang Yang: “???”
Ning Su lifted Manman up and presented her to Ling Xiao, saying, “Take a good look. This is your daughter.”
“You haven’t properly held her even after all this time. How can you be so indifferent?”
Pang Yang: “???”
What kind of magical underworld drama dialogue was this?
The little girl’s big, dark eyes glistened with a layer of moisture in the darkness, with a hint of blood pooling within. She softly called out, “Daddy.”
Ling Xiao: “...”
Not only did he lose one heart, but upon entering the instance, he also gained two children.
Ling Xiao asked, “Why call me daddy?”
Ning Su looked at Manman. He had asked her before, but Manman couldn’t explain.
At this moment, the little girl still couldn’t articulate it clearly, “Just daddy, giving energy, giving ghost life, giving ghost birth.”
Gui Sheng: “Hmm?”
Manman: “I’m not calling you.”
Gui Sheng: “Oh.” (T/N: This is because ‘Gui Sheng’ literally translates to ‘ghost life’, so he thought Manman was calling him. (⌒_⌒;))
Thank you for update ❤
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