Chapter 14

After Gu Wu Ji came out the kitchen, several people that remained behind were looking at him filled with admiration, now no one was ever willing to discriminate against Gu Wu Ji just like the first day……it was better to say that those people who had prejudice were generally dead already.

Peng Hao Cang further felt that Gu Wu Ji was knowledgeable yet modest, and seemed to know about everything, as Gu Wu Ji was very effortless in resolving matters, but how could it be like this? As this place was truly a supernatural world where people could really die upon provoking ghosts, and was not some kind of game, ah!

At that time if it had been him who had met the baby ghost on the third floor alone, it would be reckoned that his life would have already been finished there. With Gu Wu Ji having faced an unknown amount of dangerous experience, yet able to return with this kind of nonchalant look, there must certainly be an extremely powerful lifesaving thing in his body!

It was reasonable to say that this kind of person must be really shrewd, however……Peng Hao Cang still felt that Gu Wu Ji was a very enthusiastically good and honest yet had a brain circuit that was still different from a normal good person.

Remembering Gu Wu Ji"s actual ident.i.ty, Peng Hao Cang was disturbed that cold sweats emerged from his body, could it be that these were all pretenses that were fabricated by the superior performance of the other? Even he without warning was intangibly influenced by it in the end! Peng Hao Cang had once again felt the formidableness of Gu Wu Ji.

Gu Wu JI noticing that Peng Hao Cang seemed to be constantly looking at himself, also revealed a friendly smile towards him.

Peng Hao Cang was suddenly covered with cold sweats, feeling apprehensive that his ident.i.ty and purpose may have already been known by Gu Wu Ji.

It was already nightfall at the moment, everyone had finished eating their evening meal, then one after another went into the room of Peng Hao Cang to gather.

Gu Wu Ji at once briefly explained the situation he had seen. Everyone hearing him say his suspicion that there might be an additional ghost inside this hotel, made most of their expression become gloomy, in the first place, so many people have already died in this ordinary hotel, what more with an arrival of another ghost?

Peng Hao Cang was the one with the most subtle expression, he realized that this copy and the set of circ.u.mstances that he knew of had a very large discrepancy……the wrong information was the most fatal, death would have come quicker compared to not knowing anything, unexpectedly, it seems that there was someone in the organization who didn"t want him to come out alive.

But there was absolutely no way he was going to die in this place! Peng Hao Cang subconsciously looked towards Gu Wu Ji, secretly thinking about ways he was going to use to obtain the other"s trust.

“I think, the clues needed to get out of this copy must certainly be in that room, but I have already attempted it, it"s impossible to open that door without a key.” Gu Wu Ji reasoned.

The girl upon hearing this immediately started talking, “I have noticed it before, that elderly lady behind the front desk once placed a great set of keys inside a drawer, it is estimated that the key for the third floor is also in there.”

“If the keys are forcefully taken from there, a dispute will certainly occur, when the time comes that a hand is accidentally raised to settle the other, that will directly get us killed.” another man said with concern.

What was more frightening was that, even if the other hadn"t been touched yet the key had been snagged, who knows if that old woman would unexpectedly turn into a ghost?

“It seems that we can only think of a way to lead her away.” Peng Hao Cang pondered over it, and said: “Just that after we came, that old woman had always been sitting behind the counter, and has never moved at all. Just that, she was also indifferent regardless of what I say.”

“Maybe it"s possible for us to take advantage of the night to go and search when they are asleep?” Sun Shi opened in a low voice, seemingly having no confidence with his proposal.

“But coming out at night is also extremely dangerous, who knows whether or not we might encounter the other ghost that xiao Gu mentioned. According to my experience in the copy, even if a lot of clues can be obtained during the night, but it is also the most dangerous time, a brief inattentiveness can end us here.” Peng Hao Cang vetoed this proposal.

Not very pleasing memories seems to have been rekindled by other people, as their complexion looked very overcast.

“But the time is also not enough, even if it may seem like it is coming to an end, but if the actual truth of the incidents that have happened in the hotel has not been uncovered……” Peng Hao Cang for the purpose of displaying his own value towards Gu Wu Ji, already did not manage so much, with a solemn tone said: “The system has never issued a worthless task, according to my conjecture, if we are unable to find the actual truth, these ghost will be able to get free from the rules restriction, and will be able to directly kill us on the 5th day.”

After all today is already the 3rd day, and they were only given 5 days, tomorrow would be the last night that they will be living in this hotel.

“Nevertheless we should still think of a way tonight, to see how we can lead that old woman away tomorrow, if it is really impossible, then we can once again choose to go out at night, so that we will have another chance.” Gu Wu Ji stated.

As a matter of fact, Gu Wu Ji has already thought of a few ideas in his heart, but he felt that even if he spoke about it, it is estimated that the other people will not approve, so he firmly decided to not inform the other people, and just directly show it tomorrow.

The other people hearing this let out a breath of relief, in fact this was also the same line of thought that everyone □□ in their heart, no one wanted to go out and investigate anything at night in a haunted place.

Soon after, everyone left the hotel room, preparing to naturally wash up and go to sleep. Gu Wu Ji also returned to his room, planning to open the knapsack and take out a clean change of clothes.

As a result, when the knapsack was opened, he came in contact with a pair of imposing crimson red eyes, that was tenaciously looking at him from inside the knapsack.

The surrounding air for a brief moment seemed to stagnate--

Gu Wu Ji immediately pulled the zipper of the knapsack open, reaching out to lift the baby ghost from the inside, and said to him: “What are you doing here this late? Are you not afraid of worrying your parents? This kind of wanting to just play around is not exactly a good child, oh?”

It is also reckoned that only Gu Wu Ji would be able to speak out this kind of thing to the baby ghost.

However, at the time when there was an absence of killing intent, the appearance of the baby ghost was actually not that dreadful, aside from the point of the skin having a very deathly pale whiteness, no matter how one would look this one only appears like a normal adorable baby.

The baby ghost hearing the words of Gu Wu Ji, immediately uttered a wu wu sound, even reaching out to tightly hold Gu Wu Ji"s arm.

No words were obviously spoken, but Gu Wu was seemingly able to clearly understands his thoughts, and without any extra trouble took him into his embrace.

“You mean to say that you already had an agreement with your parents? About wanting to play with me now?”

The baby ghost immediately nodded his head, leaning happily in the embrace of Gu Wu Ji, and was clearly very fond of this big brother"s tender and pleasant to hear voice.

Gu Wu Ji"s mind seemingly brought out a picture of both the man and woman"s gloomy appearances showing a helpless expression in the kitchen.

He, without any better option heaved a sigh, “Fine, then I will bring you with me, but you have to be obedient, otherwise I will ignore you.”

The baby ghost hearing Gu Wu Ji talk about ignoring him in the future, immediately became nervous, then quickly changed his posture as he obediently and honestly leaned in Gu Wu Ji"s embrace, even the fresh blood on the body"s clothes faded away, literally and comprehensively displaying his cleverness and obedience.

Gu Wu Ji became startled, this clothing to one"s surprise could actually simplify things and change form like this.

Just at this time, a loud scream coming from the bathroom was heard.

Gu Wu Ji bringing the baby ghost rushed out, the other people had also gathered over there, seeing the girl in front standing outside the washroom with a panic stricken appearance looking at the rest of the people.

At the side, the water that was flowing out the faucet impressively had the color of blood, with that pale yellow lighting, and the extremely old modeled facilities, made it completely look like a scene from a horror movie.

“W-what to do?” the girl was obviously frightened out of her wits, “A moment ago, I just wanted to take advantage and have a shower before dark, and the result……was……”

“It"s really very terrible.” Gu Wu Ji serious voice sounded, “If you really lowered your guard and accidentally washed your clothes in there, wouldn"t it have been washed in vain?”

He still profoundly remembered that such things also regularly happened to him during the time he went to school, furthermore those ghosts were only fond of teasing him alone, so he had to constantly wash a few more times.

Other people: “……” This is not the most important point!!

Hearing this the baby ghost in Gu Wu Ji"s arm became unhappy, and immediately stared at the faucet"s direction with a cold look.

The flowing red water in the faucet suddenly came to a stumbling stop without anyone touching the switch. This strange scene made everyone"s heart feel very confused, after that……they then saw normal and clean water flowing out.

“???” How can this faucet suddenly become like this?

At this moment Peng Hao Cang who was close by suddenly saw the baby ghost that Gu Wu Ji was holding, the face"s complexion suddenly became white, maintaining his composure as he slowly distance himself a bit, “Xiao Gu, y-your arms……”

The other people saw this frightening scene, the girl who had already been frightened almost screamed out loud again.

“Oh this, don"t worry, he is very obedient, won"t do anything, he"s a very good child.” Gu Wu Ji opened his mouth to say, the baby ghost he carried even appeared to look very proud.

Peng Hao Cang: “……” What is this turn of events? For what reason is it that this baby ghost that was originally supposed to be the most fearsome of all, was obediently staying in Gu Wu Ji"s embrace at this time!

He also began to doubt himself with regards to his conjecture about Gu Wu Ji having a scheming side this morning……When in reality Gu Wu Ji was that good person who lacked a brain!!

Seeing the baby ghost with an obedient and sensible appearance, in addition to actually looking very adorable, making him completely not look like some kind of malicious spirit. The heart of the other 3 people loosened up letting out a breath, the girl was somewhat curious and reached out a hand wanting to touch.

But without waiting for her hand to come in contact with, the baby ghost"s eyes has already changed into blood red, furthermore, just like showing a protest snarled towards her, frightening the girl and making her retreat a few steps back.

“Didn"t you agree to be a well-behaved child?” Gu Wu Ji promptly informed, “How can you be this impolite?”

The baby ghost was somewhat unconvinced by Gu Wu Ji"s teachings, the surrounding humans around him were just like bait food in his opinion, but now that Gu Wu Ji had unhappily said those words……in short, he obediently nodded his head, with a honest and sensible appearance.

The hair on the other people"s back have been raised, in any case, they completely wouldn"t already dare to live in the same room as the baby ghost, so one after another expressed their opinions in advance before leaving. After going through something like this, where could these people still care about washing properly? Fearing that halfway through their bath the bath"s water would become blood red.

Gu Wu Ji saw that no one had also wanted to fight with him, taking advantage of this he very naturally entered the bath to wash, having the professional quality of an actor makes him feel that he must maintain his image everywhere, it was the same even if he was inside the copy"s world of horror.

The process of taking a bath was also extraordinarily unremarkable, without anything breaking out. So much that even the water that was unstable from time to time, and that light bulb that frequently flashed on and off had always maintained it"s stability at this time, making Gu Wu Ji feel very delighted.

After completely bathing, Gu Wu Ji also kept the baby ghost entertained, then returned to the dining hall and with great reluctance still handed the baby ghost to the personnel.  

Even the personnel, when holding the baby ghost also couldn"t stop the body from trembling in coldness, watching the back of Gu Wu Ji with a horrified expression.

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One night pa.s.sed.

A sound of a commotion woke Gu Wu Ji up.

Just as the time he reached outside, the hallway that was completely covered with striking red blood splashes were seen, just like there was someone who had been chased, while being cut down by a sharp weapon at the same time.

Gu Wu Ji subconsciously thought of the scenes that the female ghost had previously shown him.

Peng Hao Cang with a gloomy expression on his face went near Gu Wu Ji"s side. Even if he was currently unwilling to admit it, but being by Gu Wu Ji"s side can actually make him feel a sense of security……

Noticing that there were no people around, Peng Hao Cang immediately started talking, “Xiao Xin, she, as well as another personnel, are all dead.”


Xiao Xin was the only remaining female among the few players left.


T/N: special thanks to Shiow and Anon for the ko-fi... So here"s another chapter

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