Chapter 43: The Holy Maiden's Mission, That's All

"Stop making eyes at me! My orientation doesn't run toward you old aunties! How about this—I'll set you up with some spry old fellow! Apart from being short, ugly, broke, and missing his manhood, he's actually pretty decent!"

Wu Wang sprinted up the mountain.

The young girl he had just finished eating, slung over his shoulder, grew paler and paler.

She clamped her hand tightly over her mouth, trying her best not to throw up.

Wu Xiaoyou felt her stomach churning like a stormy sea, and her already poor mental state grew even more listless.

"Come over~ come find us~"

"We'll give you everything you want~"

"Child~ this is your home~"

Accompanied by those bone-corroding, seductive whispers in his ears, Wu Wang felt an inexplicable evil fire in his chest slowly beginning to burn.

【Spirit: 25—24】

His Spirit kept dropping.

Yet the pace beneath his feet grew ever swifter.

But because he was carrying Wu Xiaoyou, he couldn't double-jump to escape straight through the sky.

Otherwise the enemy couldn't use the same fall-from-the-sky-and-revive landing trick he could.

He had sensed something was off the moment this horde of female ghost shadows appeared.

They seemed to have come straight for the broken-down house.

Strangely, their primary target wasn't him, but Wu Xiaoyou inside the house.

"Unlucky sis! How are you feeling? Don't pass out! Whatever you do, don't pass out!" Wu Wang, even while sprinting, still found time to check on Wu Xiaoyou's mental state.

Honestly, the danger of this nightmare-tier dungeon was utterly over the top.

For any other player with single-digit Spirit or barely scraping into the teens, by now they'd have long since collapsed and fallen into ghostly hands.

Luckily he had the Abyss God's help.

Combined with his years of suicide-gifted talent, his Spirit could fully hold out until he ran back to the village.

But Wu Xiaoyou on his shoulder wasn't so certain.

"Don't say that! Sleep my ass—you're acting like a white-coat doctor in the ICU fighting to save a patient. I'm just feeling like throwing up…"

Wu Xiaoyou squeezed out broken, halting words from between her teeth as best she could.

Seeing her spirits were indeed not bad.

She didn't know what was going on either.

Apart from the initial Spirit drain from the Yin-Yuan great god's influence, the babbling of those hundreds of female ghosts behind them didn't seem to affect her at all.

"You're all girls, you should have common ground! How about you tell these sisters to pause for a sec, let's chat about something else—like the scummy men on Little Red Book? I happen to know one scummy Boss Ke who likes spying on people!" Wu Wang was still running his mouth.

Drawing a string of eye-rolls from Wu Xiaoyou.

Honestly, she could only feel some inexplicable chill creeping up from behind, but when she looked, she couldn't spot a thing.

That the hundreds of female ghosts were in pursuit was something Wu Wang had mentioned in passing while running down the mountain.

Under normal circumstances, humans can't see ghosts.

She suddenly shouted behind her: "Stop! This guy isn't here for a matchmaking! And we don't have any Ji-Zhi syrup either!"

Having said that, she glanced down at Wu Wang.

She asked helplessly, "Even if I yell like this, do you think it'll work? Please, I'm just an ordinary person—shouting ghosts to a halt is way too weird."

Boom—

Wu Wang suddenly stamped a foot hard on the ground and stopped running forward.

He glanced behind himself.

Then, as if tossing out trash, he flung Wu Xiaoyou off his shoulder, sending her tumbling with a tearful little face, rubbing her bottom and wincing: "Why'd you stop running? Given up hope, figured you'd just wait to die?"

"No, it's not over." Wu Wang said with a strange expression: "They really did stop."

At this moment, in the field of vision only Wu Wang could see—

The dense black shadows of female ghosts behind the country path and surrounding trees showed not the slightest sign of continuing the pursuit.

They merely stared fixedly ahead with eyes shrouded by mist.

More precisely, they were staring at that pale, delicate face currently wincing in pain as it rubbed its bottom.

"Little girl… take care…"

"Don't forget your home…"

The eerie female ghost babbling rose once more.

But this time Wu Wang felt no loss of Spirit at all.

As if they really were just offering a reminder.

【Hidden Quest Triggered—Holy Maiden Selection】

【Find the Yin-Yuan Holy Maiden's grave and help them find release】

【Reward: Memory-Washing Stone (Key Story Item)】

"Huh?" Wu Wang was completely dumbfounded.

So in a dungeon, apart from the main quest and side quests given at the start—

You could actually trigger hidden quests too?

The key point was the reward this quest offered.

The note "Key Story Item"—those six words made it clear that under normal circumstances, clearing this dungeon required this Memory-Washing Stone thing.

His own run had already gone completely off the rails.

Other players entering this dungeon wouldn't have stumbled upon the truth that the village chief wasn't human so easily, nor could they have gotten the old village chief to sit down and have a proper chat, willingly laying out his entire background.

It was even more impossible to strike any deal with the Old Village Head.

After all, the premise of all this was that the Old Village Head needed his help—to assist him in absorbing the Abyssal God's aura.

If other players came into contact with the Abyssal God's aura...

Wu Wang's mind suddenly flashed back to the initial novice dungeon, the corpses on the ground that had been liquidated, twisting into grotesque shapes under the Abyssal God's gaze.

Unless something unexpected happened, it seemed that he alone could currently ignore the Abyssal God's influence.

Even if his body had mutated, Wu Wang only needed to die and resurrect once to return to normal.

Look at me! You bastard!

"Hey, Zhang Sanfeng, where are we going next? Back to the broken house?" Wu Xiaoyou stood up and asked.

Her complexion had already improved significantly.

Her spiritual power recovery speed was obviously abnormal, but Wu Wang did not pay attention to that.

He was actually more concerned about why the other party could stop those female ghosts.

In this dungeon, was she really just playing the role of an unlucky person who stumbled here by mistake?

Especially after learning that one could not leave the village during the Great Sacrifice Period of Yin Yuan.

Wu Wang was even more puzzled.

【While walking in the forest, you met a girl who fell from the mountain and fell into a coma.】

This was the dungeon introduction content Zhang Sanfeng found regarding Wu Xiaoyou.

But with the forest locked by the Great God of Yin Yuan, could an ignorant girl really stumble in by falling from the mountain Luoshan?

Was she really Wu Xiaoyou?

Even if she was.

Why did Second Sister come to this place back then?

"No, the plan has changed. Tonight I will take you to stay in the village." Wu Wang pondered for a moment and said: "I already have a way to ensure they do not harm you."

"So amazing? Sigh... You look about the same age as my little brother; he's just foolish." Wu Xiaoyou said, disappointed in his stupidity.

A flash of Li Yimo passed through Wu Wang's eyes.

He had spotted a certain linguistic loophole.

The other party...

Hadn't she lost her memory?

But now Wu Wang did not point out this problem; he simply silently led the way down the mountain ahead.

Not long after, the two arrived at Yin Yuan Village.

Seeing Wu Wang return, a hint of surprise clearly flashed across the Old Village Head's face.

He had thought they would meet at the ancestral hall tomorrow night.

Why return so soon after just leaving?

"Have you come to your senses? Hiss... Who is this?"

The Old Village Head knew at first glance that Wu Xiaoyou absolutely met the conditions to become the Yin Yuan Holy Maiden; he did not need to ask for her birth date and time to sense it.

But where did this person come from?

Wasn't Yin Yuan Village already locked down?

Hearing this, Wu Wang spoke leisurely: "Oh, trouble you to arrange accommodation for us."

"I came back to bring you an Offering."

Old Village Head: "?"

Wu Xiaoyou: "?"