There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 657

Chapter 657: Chapter 564: Remarkable People and Enchanted Land of Osmanthus Village Chapter 657: Chapter 564: Remarkable People and Enchanted Land of Osmanthus Village “So, those Osmanthus trees were actually planted by you?”

After detaching from the flashback, Xu Shuo looked curiously at the seemingly calm bride before him.

The bride withdrew her hand and gently affirmed with a sound.

Then she said, “Actually, at the beginning, those people could have left Osmanthus Village without any problem, but they believed they could deal with me, so they invited some deceiving Taoist priests and monks over.

“After they found out that nothing worked, they thought about leaving.

“But how could that be possible?”

With a tone of mockery, the bride reached this point already caressing the corner of her lips, letting out a cold chuckle, “How could I possibly let them go.”

Every villager’s Osmanthus tree.

Was actually a ghostly being.

Influenced by the bride’s subtle and pervasive resentment, it altered the villagers’ perception without their awareness, until after more than a decade, the people even began to care for the trees on their own, and they came to regard these Osmanthus trees as symbols of the village.

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The shackles of Osmanthus Village were clasped by the ignorant villagers themselves.

Relying on these Osmanthus trees, the bride could manipulate the entire village at will, and even if her ghostly Qi wasn’t sufficient to materialize, she could still grasp what was happening within the village.

Upon hearing this.

Xu Shuo asked a question, “But today, I dug up a lump of…

something black under the Osmanthus tree?”

No sooner had he spoken than the bride’s emotions had already begun to boil over.

A deep, ominous voice slowly spread, “I don’t know since when, but Osmanthus Village suddenly had another strange existence, which subtly eroded the rationale of those commoners and even occupied the graveyard on North Mountain, preventing me from returning to my own body.”

“You can’t beat it?” Xu Shuo asked.

Then, the bride’s head under the red veil abruptly twisted toward him, and Xu Shuo felt as if he had been glared at.

The bride responded discontentedly, “It’s not that I can’t beat it, it’s just that there’s no way to start.

“That thing has a strange contaminating nature, anything it touches gets consumed and assimilated, making it impossible to eliminate.

“At first, I suppressed it within the graveyard.

“But as time passed, more and more became contaminated, and the source of pollution grew bigger and bigger.

“Now, it has even infiltrated the village along with my power, transforming the Resentment Energy attached to those Osmanthus trees.

“Direct contact could easily affect me too, so I can only suppress it indirectly with my power, temporarily achieving a balance, but its contaminating nature is still strengthening.”

Toward the end, the bride’s tone revealed a rare hint of dejection.

Xu Shuo could somewhat understand.

But the reality was probably even more severe than she described.

Since the bride herself was a concentration of resentment, she could not only not contend with the Abyss, but the negative energy she generated was likely to be consumed by the Abyss, just like the Osmanthus trees.

Against an existence like the Abyss, unless she possessed some kind of bright Purification ability, there was essentially no solution.

But the bride avoided the Jade Ruyi like the plague, let alone those Purification abilities.

So her confrontation with the Abyss was at a deadlock.

She could only drag it out with her own power until one side’s strength became overwhelming, after which the winner would be decided.

Thinking this through, Xu Shuo asked the bride, “Is your power all derived from the villagers of Osmanthus Village?”

“Yes.”

The bride sneered, “By imposing pressure on these stubborn people, the resentment, anger, and fear they harbor can all become my nourishment.

I rely on these emotions to confront the graveyard.”

Xu Shuo mused, “The people you killed, were they also buried in the graveyard?”

The bride lazily affirmed with a sound.

Xu Shuo continued, “Then is it possible, those black substances were birthed from the dead villagers, and eating the same negative emotions, gradually grew and strengthened?”

The bride fell silent for a moment, “…”

Analyzing the Abyss creatures that had manifested in the real world, Xu Shuo felt that the darkness of the Abyss must have some connection to those negative emotions.

Whether it was the Green-skin Train, the remote mountain village, or the Ghost Ship at sea, all actually demonstrated this phenomenon.

The passengers who perished on the train must have had grievances, as did the women abducted into the mountain village, and as for the sea, apart from the pure-hearted Xu, everyone else harbored countless complex negative emotions.

And all these things could become factors that intensified the Abyss.

Osmanthus Village was a breeding ground for gu!

It gave rise to fierce ghosts like the Ghost Bride and those deformed, twisted creatures of the Abyss.

Truly a place where remarkable people meet with spiritual essence.

Xu Shuo said, “You must know that you’ve never truly had a way to deal with the darkness; at this rate, it will eventually consume you.”

Upon hearing this, the Ghost Bride suddenly chuckled, “What’s so bad about that ending?”

She said, “It’s just another way for me to vent my anger.”

Because the darkness is without Order, the Ghost Bride would be consumed, and naturally, Osmanthus Village would be consumed as well, including those people and things she hated.

The Ghost Bride was already dead.

So she wasn’t afraid of dying again.

Her obsession was merely with the fact that the people of Osmanthus Village were still alive and well in this world, but if everyone died together, wouldn’t that be cause for celebration?

Having tormented Osmanthus Village for decades, if everyone ended up dead, the Ghost Bride felt her grudge could finally come to a peaceful end.

With this thought, the Ghost Bride suddenly turned to look at Xu Shuo.

As if realizing something, a red sash flew unexpectedly from her sleeve, rolling towards Xu Shuo!

But Xu Shuo was quicker, almost as soon as the Ghost Bride turned her gaze, he immediately picked up the Jade Ruyi placed beside him.

Bang!

The red sash, constructed from resentment energy, was repelled.

The Ghost Bride glared at him again, “The matter at North Mountain isn’t finished yet, I’ll send you out of the village first, why are you resisting?”

Xu Shuo revealed his purpose, “I want to visit your grave.”

“What?” The Ghost Bride doubted she heard correctly.

“Your grave,” Xu Shuo was very patient.

“What do you want with my grave?” The Ghost Bride’s tone shifted slightly.

“Um…

just take a look?”

Would saying I’m going to cremate you activate boss mode?

The Ghost Bride’s voice calmed again, “You can’t look.

My grave is on North Mountain; that thing has surrounded it, and I can’t even get there myself now.”

Xu Shuo asked curiously, “Would your current state be affected if your corpse is damaged?”

The Ghost Bride’s look was inscrutable as she said, “It would, but there is a burial object in the coffin that blocks the erosion.

Originally, the Wang Family intended to use that thing to suppress me.

“Heh, it seems they knew they were committing sins and feared that I would come out for revenge.

“But what they didn’t expect was that after my blood contaminated it, it reversed and I absorbed its power, allowing me to manifest now.”

“Oh~”

Xu Shuo suddenly understood.

That must also be quite the useful prop, right?

By the way, the Ghost Bride’s favorability towards him must be quite high by now, so why hasn’t she given him anything yet?

Just as Xu Shuo was thinking this, he heard the Ghost Bride talk in a persuasive tone, as if coaxing a child,

“Actually, I placed something at the foot of South Mountain that has a wonderful effect similar to that Jade Ruyi in your hand.

Do you want to go take a look with me?”

South Mountain was the direction of the village entrance.

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Should I go?

Of course, I should go!

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