Chapter 544

Just a moment ago.

The rebels had slaughtered the villagers of the entire village like pigs and dogs.

But now.

Ghost after ghost emerged from the corpses, and just like the rebels had killed the villagers, they also tortured all the rebels to death.

The village was filled with the screams of men, and corpse after corpse was added.

The rebels were also trying to resist, and gunshots rang out frequently, but bullets had no effect on ghosts.

Watching these rebels fall miserably one by one, Wu Xian was almost ready to clap and cheer.

But he didn't dare to clap.

Because he had also been targeted by these ghosts.

After these ghosts killed people, they could already be considered malevolent entities, and malevolent entities never stuck to the "every debt has its debtor" rule when killing.

So Wu Xian, a living human, naturally wouldn't be spared.

Wu Xian's face was pale, and he was trembling with cold sweat, looking at everything happening before him in disbelief.

"What, what is going on!"

"Could, could it be that there are ghosts here?"

His expression instantly became uglier than crying, and he kept bowing to the heights in a tone as if he were begging for mercy.

"Oh my, dear elders and fellow villagers, you have your grievances to settle and your debts to collect."

"I haven't provoked you at all; please don't haunt me. I have an eighty-year-old dog above and an eight-year-old cat below; I beg you."

A few tears even squeezed out of his beautiful cat-like eyes.

But this plea had no effect. As the rebels gradually died out, there were more and more ghosts around Wu Xian, each with bullet holes or knife wounds on their bodies, each with the paleness caused by blood loss on their faces.

The woman with the bullet wound in her nose crawled onto Wu Xian and licked the tears flowing down Wu Xian's face with her tongue.

Wu Xian didn't dodge; instead, he leaned his head forward, his entire body overlapping with the woman's, and then passed through her, running and crawling out of the village while making strange noises, his back looking quite pathetic.

All of this, of course, was Wu Xian's acting.

Before the ghosts appeared.

The pool of blood had shown that the next part was the Etiquette Minor Exam.

And in the etiquette class, the training students received was how to ignore the harassment of ghosts and treat them like air.

Therefore.

Wu Xian judged that in this minor exam, as long as he ignored these ghosts, the ghosts wouldn't be able to attack him.

But ignoring these ghosts was not an easy task.

After all, Wu Xian was truly a bit scared.

After undergoing treatment from a psychologist, his threshold for enduring fear had lowered, and plus, this was a True Gate exam; if he made a mistake, he would really die.

After being surrounded by so many ghosts, even Wu Xian found it difficult to guarantee that he wouldn't give himself away through subtle movements.

Therefore, Wu Xian changed his approach.

Since he didn't have the confidence not to make small mistakes, he would just commit a big mistake first.

So his expression became exaggerated, as if he were mentally collapsing from the deaths of the rebels one by one.

This way, even if he made any small movements, they would be covered up by larger and more exaggerated actions.

The ghosts kept following Wu Xian.

They stopped only at the village entrance, watching Wu Xian get further and further away from the village.

But after Wu Xian walked a distance, he actually muttered and ran back, whispering to himself the whole time.

"May the Demon God Chi You protect me, may the Heavenly Official Great Emperor protect me, may the Multi-Treasure Tathagata protect me... no matter which god or Buddha in the sky it is, please protect me..."

"People die for wealth, birds die for food; I have no choice, dear sirs, please don't mind."

Just like that, Wu Xian's body passed through several ghosts, finally stopping beside a rebel's corpse to remove the bayonet from his rifle, then the second, the third... when he reached the sixth one, he found an officer and obtained a box-cannon pistol and twelve rounds of ammunition from his hand.

Actually, if Wu Xian had left just now, the Etiquette Minor Exam would have ended there.

But as soon as Wu Xian walked out of the village, he felt a bit cheated.

Since he was already here, should he just go back like this?

Anyway, as long as he ignored the ghosts, the village wasn't dangerous, so why not take this opportunity to collect supplies in the village? After getting the bayonets and the pistol, Wu Xian searched for food again, and before long, he found two cans of meat and a few very hard flatbreads.

During his search for food, those ghosts kept trying to interfere, either by pressing their faces in front of Wu Xian to show terrifying images or by feinting a fake attack.

One ghost's behavior almost broke Wu Xian's disguise.

This ghost had been hung up and whipped earlier; he actually took advantage of the moment Wu Xian lowered his head to loop a blood-stained hemp rope around Wu Xian's neck!

Wu Xian made a great determination to refrain from resisting.

When Wu Xian stood up, his body passed through the rope; this rope was also fake.

If Wu Xian had misjudged and actually resisted, he would probably have had to fight the villagers here.

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In addition.

Wu Xian had another discovery.

That was that while he was collecting weapons, all these ghosts were avoiding the bayonets he had found.

After thinking about it for a moment, Wu Xian understood.

These bayonets had all been stained with human blood and were genuine murder weapons; it was normal for ghosts to be afraid of them. This discovery further increased the value of these bayonets.

Finally, Wu Xian found a sturdy cowhide bag, packed all his gains into it, carried it on his shoulder, ignored all the ghosts, and ran out of the village with swift strides.

The ghosts couldn't do anything to Wu Xian and could only stand together at the village entrance, seeing Wu Xian off with eyes full of resentment.

After leaving the village.

Wu Xian felt light and easy, carrying the weapons and starting to climb the mountain.

The mountain path wasn't rugged, just slightly sloped, and it was full of the scent of peach blossoms; walking on such a mountain path at night could be considered a leisurely pleasure.

Wu Xian climbed to the middle of the mountain without any surprises or dangers, when suddenly a shadow darted out from the darkness and slammed into a tree.

This was a rabbit.

The rabbit's head was smashed, and blood flowed out, forming a line of blood-red text in mid-air.

"The Sports Minor Exam officially begins!"

Wu Xian was stunned for a moment.

Sports Minor Exam? The content taught in sports class was how to escape and how to stay calm when facing malevolent entities, but no malevolent entities had been found on the mountain yet. What could Wu Xian do with the knowledge from sports class? Wu Xian looked back down the mountain, and the beard on his face twitched.

He saw black energy surging in the village at the foot of the mountain, and a group of blurry shadows at the village entrance were scrambling to float up the mountain.

Just now, these ghosts were all confined to the village.

Now, the ghosts were out of their cages!

Wu Xian didn't even think about it; he took off running up the mountain.

The previous one was the etiquette exam, so the state of those ghosts was that they wouldn't kill as long as no connection was established.

But now it was the sports exam, and those ghosts had left the village.

This meant the state of these ghosts was different from before; if he pretended not to see them this time, he would probably be eaten alive by these ghosts!

So.

In the mountain forest in the dead of night.

Wu Xian ran for his life.

And behind him, a group of blood-stained ghost shadows were moving toward the mountaintop with expressionless faces!

(End of this chapter)