He looked at the stone wall, where the scene of Ning Su rushing over in the bus to hit the dead body was repeatedly playing.
Next to it was Ning Su, unreasonably walking up and turning the head of the dead body in front of Yun Xiangning by half a circle.
The system was indeed not a good system, employing bandit logic, prompting them to do good deeds, yet ultimately holding onto their misdeeds.
Ning Su: “Can you replay it a bit more?”
“What?”
Ning Su said, “It’s about my life. It started when I appeared at the door of the welfare institution. Can you rewind a bit? I want to see who put me at the door of the welfare institution and what happened before that.”
“...”
There was silence in the cave.
The three judges looked at Ning Su, then at the two little ghost masters beside him.
The two little ghost masters were staring at them with dark, unblinking eyes.
“...”
There was another longer silence.
The middle judge cleared his throat. “Although the deceased Ning Su provoked trouble, considering the deceased Ning Su’s goodwill and good deeds, and having obtained two good person referral cards, the deceased Ning Su can be reincarnated.”
Ning Su: “Hold on, let me stay a bit longer. Let me see what happened before.”
“...”
The head judge hurriedly shook the bronze bell.
[Congratulations to player Ning Su for successfully pretending to be a ghost, passing the trial, returning to the mortal world, teleportation preparation in progress.]
Ning Su: “...”
Ning Su: “Judge, please, I’ll just take a look.”
“I won’t look too far ahead. Just see who sent me to the welfare institution.”
“...”
The three judges looked at his last scene before his death and shuddered in unison.
In another cave entrance, Ling Xiao walked into the dark corridor.
On the black stone wall, scenes of his “past life” were displayed.
Perhaps his life was too long, and even flashing through it at high speed couldn’t cover every stage of his life in a short time, only certain years.
This was enough for Ling Xiao to discern some things.
The moment his feet touched the black slate, the scene began on an ancient battlefield.
Perhaps humans couldn’t imagine such a grand and tragic battlefield, not between city and city, or country and country, but the entire conceivable world, littered with floating corpses.
In the sea of corpses, a young man’s fingers trembled lightly.
Something sprouted from his body.
It was a vine.
It began within the body of a young man, starting as a tender green sprout. After the green leaves slowly solidified, they began to grow wildly, faster and faster, greener and greener, until they turned black.
He greedily absorbed something or was crazily infused with something.
It was the resentment and hostility of an entire world. The vines wrapped around those grudges and grew wildly upward, tearing through the dark sky.
Crimson petals fell from the sky, drifting down onto countless corpses, like the final rest of lost souls or the unwilling sighs of the departed.
That world of death slowly fell into silence.
Ling Xiao stared at the disappearing world in the fleeting scene for a long time.
After a while, he finally lifted his foot and walked forward, each step representing many years and different worlds.
His chaotic and fragmented memories could barely keep up.
Over the years, he had been shuttling between various worlds, maintaining the stability of each world and supporting the birth of new worlds.
“Deceased Ling Xiao, age 188,8--?”
The judge faltered.
He looked ahead blankly, almost kneeling when he did.
Glancing to both sides, he saw the other two had already knelt properly.
“...”
He neither knelt nor stood, but rather quivered unsteadily, upholding the authority of the chief judge. “May I ask, what are your orders?”
The man in black stood on the black stone slab, watching the screen abruptly stop at the entrance to the ghost town. “Move forward a bit more.”
“?”
Ling Xiao: “The next five years, ten years, twenty years.”
“???”
***
No matter how Ning Su tried to persuade, the judge didn’t give him the replay of the earlier scenes.
They seemed eager to get Ning Su out of there.
Ning Su felt that in this world without a ghost master, the two ghost masters might have scared them. Of course, the last scene of him snapping a corpse’s neck wasn’t very friendly either.
Ning Su sighed helplessly; he really wanted to see the previous scenes.
[Transmission begins.]
[Player performance and reward statistics.]
[Now broadcasting player performance and rewards.]
[Dungeon <Ghost Embodiment> performance is as follows:]
[System rating: A.]
[Judgment level: A. (Explanation: Player only went through one round of judgment with a level of A, the second round of judgment with a level of B, and so on, with the lowest level being F.)]
[Final level: A.]
[Player’s rewards for this round are as follows:]
[Points: 413245]
[Congratulations to the player, please keep up the good work.]
When Ning Su appeared in the halo outside the base gate, Fang Qi was already standing there, intact.
Seeing him come out, Fang Qi breathed a sigh of relief, “I didn’t do anything bad, only good things, and I even have a ‘good person card’, so I came out after just one round of judgment without any punishment.”
Ning Su nodded.
Fang Qi still stared behind, unsure of who he was waiting for.
Not long after, Pang Yang came out clutching his neck tightly. “Ah! I just cut a rooster’s neck, and they tried to cut mine.”
He spoke incoherently, like he was out of breath.
His neck remained intact, with only thick blood staining his pink vest.
Ning Su: “The injuries from exiting the instance have already healed. Talk properly.”
Pang Yang: “...”
With lingering fear, he loosened his grip on his neck. “It was too damn terrifying. The feeling of my neck being cut open and blood gushing out was too scary. Luckily, I ran fast; otherwise, I might have bled to death there.”
After recovering, he hooked Ning Su’s shoulder. “Brother, thank you for saving my life and helping me get a B grade.”
Ning Su nodded and continued to look behind them.
For a long time, no players came out.
Pang Yang realized something was wrong. “I just killed a rooster and was about to have my neck slashed. What about someone like the human pupa master...?”
He remembered that the human pupa master’s dismemberment wasn’t just about a dead body. What kind of terrifying judgment did that entail?
Suddenly tense, he asked, “Human pupa master, she... she won’t die in this Level 4 instance, will she?”
As he spoke, Xue Wei emerged, drenched in blood.
She leaned over, gasping heavily while supporting herself with the pupa canister. After a while, she looked up at them, revealing a terrifying yet excited blood-stained smile, accompanied by streams of blood.
Pang Yang immediately fell silent.
Next came Yun Xiangning. She had destroyed a corpse once and unexpectedly survived the judgment.
When she emerged, she was lying on the ground, barely breathing.
The last to appear was Ling Xiao, unscathed.
Seven players emerged in total, with one not surviving the judgment.
Ning Su remembered that the player was among those who, when the corpses came to them, learned how to deal with them from Xue Wei and threw the corpses into the Black River.
Ning Su turned his head back as soon as he saw Ling Xiao, and Pang Yang also felt completely relieved.
His mood was very good, “Brother, I have to treat you to a big meal, and also about the matter of bringing you to see the president, I remember that promise, don’t worry, I will definitely make you meet your idol!”
As he spoke, he suddenly exclaimed, “Oh my God!”
Ning Su followed his gaze.
Outside, many people had gathered, the most conspicuous being Shi Tianzhu and Ning Changfeng standing on the left and right.
Apparently, Pang Yang only saw his goddess idol and didn’t notice the other nemesis of their guild. “N-No, no, it couldn’t be. Does the president know about my great progress and come specifically to pick me up?”
Pang Yang was dizzy, “Oh my god! H-How could this be?”
Ning Su: “...”
T/N: End of another arc! Yey! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و
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