There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 665

Chapter 665: Chapter 568: How Beautiful She Was in Life Chapter 665: Chapter 568: How Beautiful She Was in Life The coffin had two layers.

After it was abruptly blasted open, the two corpses inside were exposed.

One was reduced to darkened bones and tattered cloth.

The other, astonishingly, still faintly showed its facial features, and the bright red wedding dress was still intact, though the body was shriveled and emaciated, the skin gray and sallow, with cheekbones protruding from the sunken cheeks.

At first glance, it was even more horrifying than the bare bones.

The bride standing beside it couldn’t help but touch her own face, then said in a complex tone, “It’s ugly, isn’t it?”

Xu Shuo heard this and looked up at her.

The red bridal veil had been blown away, revealing the bride’s face which resembled the scholar somewhat, though pale and stiff, with pitch-black, lifeless eyes, she still retained an elegant and delicate beauty.

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Xu Shuo glanced at her as a Resentful Spirit, then back at the body in the coffin.

Then he nodded, “Indeed.”

The bride: “…”

As beautiful as one was in life, that was how ugly one became after death.

Cremation seemed like a good choice.

Beyond the two bodies in the coffin, there were many burial items, not gold and silver treasures, but plenty of jade, small iron towers, Five-Colored Soil, and pottery.

Xu Shuo’s gaze burned with intensity as he looked at these burial items.

Then, he revealed a look of regret.

He hesitated before asking, “Didn’t you say…

there was something special by your corpse?”

The bride rolled up her sleeve, pointed toward her corpse’s head, and said, “It’s in the mouth.

After I died, they performed magic rituals around the tomb for several days, and in the end, a Taoist priest stuffed something inside my mouth.”

Xu Shuo looked toward the corpse’s mouth.

Should he just pry it open now?

Forget it, better deal with important matters first.

Using his spiritual power, Xu Shuo scooped the body out of the coffin, then took out a wholesale disposable fruit knife and slashed his own wrist.

Next, he lifted the bride’s corpse’s wrist and made a cut there too.

But the blood that flowed out was black.

The bride couldn’t help but ask, “What are you planning to do?”

In fact, as soon as she saw Xu Shuo make a cut, the bride’s expression turned a bit strange because when those people had bonded her and Mr.

Wang in a soul contract, they had done the same thing.

Xu Shuo was silently looking at the black blood.

Although he could feel that there was no presence of the Abyss in it, the aura filled with negative energy wasn’t scarce either, resembling untreated sewage.

Muddled and utterly chaotic.

Making a bond with such blood gave him the sensation of being dirtied…

Right at that moment, the flesh of the Abyss nearby suddenly became agitated, and the red blood that had fallen to the ground rapidly merged with the soil.

Another tentacle shot out from the flesh mass!

Xu Shuo, without turning his head, threw the fruit knife, pinning the newly grown tentacle of the flesh mass to the ground.

He then placed his wrist above the bride’s wrist, his fresh red blood falling onto the black blood, which was instantly devoured.

The bride beside him suddenly started!

She seemed to feel something.

Body, soul, mind—her entire being felt as if it was bound by thin, fragile red threads from the void, which seemed as if they would snap with the slightest struggle.

Indeed, that was the case.

As soon as the thought to break free emerged, those red threads vanished, and her body and spirit relaxed.

At that moment,

a voice resonated in her mind—

“Do not reject this power.”

“It’s the way to take you away from here.”

As the words fell, those red threads wrapped around her once more.

Remembering the words just spoken, the bride suppressed the subconscious urge to resist and let countless red threads firmly bind her.

She felt a mark being imprinted.

But it wasn’t clearly explained.

The contract was formed smoothly this time.

Xu Shuo could feel the thoughts and emotions being conveyed from the bride, and he could even control her behavior.

This was the Soul Contract!

He had successfully contracted an NPC from the Subspace!

Xu Shuo looked at the bride’s Soul Body with anticipation and asked, “How do you feel now?

Do you notice any different changes?”

After the Traveling Poet had completed the contract, he claimed to have gained some abilities.

What about the bride?

The bride seemed to have just emerged from that mystical state.

She lifted her palm to look and found that the trend of her dissipation had ceased.

Then she pondered for a moment.

Only then did she say, “I feel like I can control people’s emotions and feed on them.

Although I did this before, it feels a little different this time.”

Xu Shuo was taken aback, “How is it different?”

The bride shook her head, “I can’t say for sure, there’s nothing here to test it on.”

Xu Shuo continued to inquire, “What else?”

The bride touched her chin, “Besides, I feel that there is someone like me in a distant place, but I can’t pinpoint exactly.

However, if we meet, I will certainly recognize them!”

Xu Shuo: “…”

You two can sense each other even when contracted by different Contractors?!

Without a doubt, the person the bride was referring to must be the Traveling Poet!

Then does this not mean that the Traveling Poet could sense the bride as well and deduce that Cerys has contracted another person?

Xu Shuo was speechless.

Why, after two Soul Contracts, did the contracted parties feel that they had gained a lot, but Xu Shuo, as the initiator, felt he had gotten no benefit aside from gaining a subordinate?

Well, a subordinate is a benefit, too.

Xu Shuo no longer paid attention to the bride, who no longer faced the danger of her soul being scattered.

He took out a disposable fruit knife and pried open the firmly closed mouth of the bride’s corpse.

He saw a purple bead on the tongue.

Then…

Xu Shuo cautiously put on gloves.

He reached in and took the bead out, then he fetched a bottle of water, carefully washing the already unsullied purple bead.

The bride watched from the sidelines: “……”

“Tiezhu…”

The bride’s chilling voice rose by his side.

Accompanied by gusts of cold wind, the graveyard at night, it even had a bit of a fierce ghost vibe.

However, Xu Shuo did not feel any emotions such as “anger” from her spiritual power, at most there was a bit of “resentment” and “displeasure.”

Xu Shuo handed the cleaned bead over to her and asked, “Do you want it?”

The bead was imbued with the bride’s Qi.

Not sure what the bead originally looked like, but the two-centimeter-sized bead was now so purple it was almost black.

Xu Shuo could even faintly smell the breath that had been sealed away for decades.

The bride reached out for the bead.

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But in the next moment, her expression suddenly changed!

“Bang!”

The bride punched her own corpse, knocking it to the ground!

Just then, the bride’s corpse lying behind Xu Shuo had abruptly sat up and opened its mouth filled with blood and black wind!

Xu Shuo calmly looked back.

Because that breath had even wafted over to him.

“You can’t control your own body?” Xu Shuo curiously asked.

“No, this is no longer my body.”

The bride’s expression was grave as she pulled Xu Shuo’s arm behind her, not even realizing that she was not repelled by the Jade Ruyi this time.

The corpse grotesquely got back to its feet, its eyes wide open and pitch-black, its lips pierced with needle and thread, already hideous, now split to the roots of the ears, the flesh rotting, utterly repulsive!

Seeing her body turned into this, the bride suddenly understood how Xu Shuo felt just now!

She was truly disgusted!

“So ugly!”

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