She Was Sentenced to Life Imprisonment [Unlimited] - Chapter 17

Chapter 17: The Wedding of the Desolate Village (15) (End)

Do they deserve to die?

Although Nie Yun’s courtyard was laid out exactly like the players’ rooms, the difference was that here, new “喜” (happiness) characters were pasted everywhere and red silks floated in the air. The bride’s wedding gown was placed on the bed. This place felt more like a bride’s boudoir.

In a place where no one else noticed, a tall figure sat on the roof. The pale green light made her cold, beautiful face look even colder than a ghost’s.

She looked down from above, her cold gaze sweeping over the bloody hands that were once again flailing and dancing after Nie Yun went inside. The pressure she exuded was so great that they were instantly crushed by an invisible force in the air.

She snapped her long, beautiful fingers, and a light screen that only she could see appeared in front of her, showing the scene inside the room.

Jiang Nan, guided by Nie Yun, lay down on the bed. The crimson mandarin duck quilt made her skin even more pale and translucent, with faint blue veins visible beneath. Her small figure looked frail and submissive, a pitiful, broken sight.

A sharp, long fingernail scraped across her fair, delicate cheek, breaking the skin and leaving a small cut. The bright red bl00d that seeped out was particularly glaring on her clean face.

Nie Yun wiped the bl00d from Jiang Nan’s face with her hand and sniffed it at her nose, a look of obsession on her face. Her “giggle” was rough, as if her throat was filled with gravel, sounding terrifying and eerie. She spoke in a hoarse voice.

“I loved your face the moment I saw you. It’s a shame I couldn’t get you to come out that first night.”

The person on the bed didn’t speak, her expression blank as she stared at the ceiling.

Outside, the person watching the light screen found the bl00d on Jiang Nan’s face an eyesore. Her gaze deepened, a displeasure she didn’t even notice herself. Her purple eyes filled with bl00d-red, becoming malevolent and terrifying. The aura she exuded made living creatures tremble in fear, and the circling crows fell silent.

But the “person” inside was unaware of the impending catastrophe. She continued to admire the beautiful face that was about to be hers, holding a small knife and approaching step by step with a twisted smile.

“How I long to wear this face at my wedding.”

She held the knife up to Jiang Nan’s face, measuring the right angle, about to slice off a perfect piece of skin.

The pale face with its thick layer of foundation was inches away. The neck was stitched with black threads, and large, dark red corpse spots were visible on her hands. All of this indicated that she was no longer a living person.

But at that moment, the person on the bed’s expression suddenly turned cold. Taking advantage of the other’s distraction, she suddenly reached out and pinned her hand, a smile curling on her lips that was devoid of any warmth. She spoke sarcastically.

“I’ve always been curious. From the beginning, the instance hinted that the three ghostly bridesmaids were the bosses we needed to clear the game, so why did they only scare people and never kill them, while you can kill others as you please? Why? You’re the real boss of this instance, aren’t you?”

And her level was higher than the ghostly bridesmaids. This was why the bride never appeared in the illusion. Nie Yun was the hidden boss.

The bride whose face was burned off on her wedding day was obsessed with finding beautiful skin to peel off, and she personally cut off her own head because she couldn’t face her ugly appearance.

The suicidal ghostly bridesmaids were trying to stop the wedding from happening, simply because they didn’t want more people to be harmed.

That night, Luo Ning wasn’t looking for the ghostly bridesmaid’s head, but Nie Yun’s head hidden under the sycamore tree.

Nie Yun was suddenly taken aback and stunned by her actions. She couldn’t understand what Jiang Nan was saying. Her expression became twisted and vicious. She tried to break free from the hold, but she didn’t expect the frail-looking person in front of her to have a strength so great it could crush her bones. She shrieked in a voice that sounded like it had been run over.

“Why do you still have your wits?!”

Jiang Nan didn’t answer her question. She turned the blade in her hand and pointed it directly at Nie Yun’s neck.

Nie Yun gnashed her teeth, ignoring the blade threatening her life. She laughed maniacally, her voice a grating sound, and threatened.

“You can’t kill me. If you kill me, you can’t complete my wedding.”

To clear the game, you had to complete the wedding and kill the ghostly bridesmaids.

Even if Nie Yun was also a boss, she was the bride of the wedding.

“Can’t kill you?”

Jiang Nan mumbled to herself. Nie Yun was still smug that the other person wouldn’t dare to kill her.

“You can’t kill me…”

Before she could finish, a cold light flashed. Not giving her a chance to react, the blade accurately pierced her flesh and entered her heart.

Jiang Nan’s eyes were cold. The amber color of her eyes made the bottom of the lake seem to not stir a single ripple. Her voice was clear and cold as her lips parted.

“We’ll find out.”

At that moment, a thought suddenly flashed in Jiang Nan’s mind.

She could kill Nie Yun.

A piercing scream broke through her eardrums. Even the crows circling outside quickly fled like startled birds.

Nie Yun struggled, her bulging, bloodshot eyes glaring at the person in front of her with resentment. She muttered to herself in disbelief.

“Impossible. How is this possible? I can’t die…”

Nie Yun wasn’t human; no bl00d flowed out.

Her body quickly shriveled. The girl’s skin instantly wrinkled like a piece of dead skin, clinging tightly to the bones, like a shrunken old woman, exuding the stench of a rotting corpse.

Disgusting white maggots crawled out of the wound, but they instantly turned into black smoke the moment they touched the blade.

The cracks on the hilt of the knife glowed a bewitching red, as if it were alive, trembling with excitement.

The black smoke that was scurrying around found a home as Nie Yun completely died. The black threads connecting her head broke one by one, and the moment her broken head fell, the black smoke was completely absorbed by the blade in Jiang Nan’s hand.

On the other side, the air around Luo Ning fluctuated noticeably. A scythe, as tall as a person as described in Western mythology, flickered in and out of sight in the darkness, filled with bloodthirsty excitement.

“Be quiet.”

Luo Ning gave it a cold glance and said mercilessly.

“Don’t make me take you apart.”

The scythe became quiet, feeling wronged, and no longer dared to appear.

【Instance anomaly detected!】

【The instance is now missing a bride. Player Jiang Nan will become the new bride. You will clear the game by completing tomorrow’s wedding.】

The cold electronic voice rang out, then made two “shasha” sounds as if it was malfunctioning.

…

The rooster’s crow echoed throughout the village, as if a button had been pushed. The black crows turned into magpies on the branch at dawn, chirping. The villagers began to walk toward the courtyard where the bride was waiting.

Gongs and drums were deafening, and firecrackers crackled. A delicate sedan chair, like a beautiful little house, was carried to the small courtyard.

The wedding procession was long, but everyone had an ashen face, wearing large red burial clothes. The two leading the way were Zhang Zheng and Zhou Chen. Their expressions were as apathetic and lifeless as the villagers’.

Li Tao was scared unconscious and was lying somewhere unknown.

The two ghostly bridesmaids also appeared. They stood behind the girl in front of the dressing mirror.

“You can still run now.”

Jiang Nan didn’t turn back. She looked at them through the mirror and said calmly.

The red wedding dress made her skin look pale and sickly, with a hint of pitiful fragility.

Hearing this, they looked at each other for a long time before seeming to have made up their minds. They shook their heads. “Su Man” gave the wedding procession outside a cold glance and said.

“Even if you let us go, they will still tear us apart. If we’re going to die anyway, we might as well die by your hand.”

They were forced to commit suicide in life, and the police couldn’t enter this closed-off village to get justice for them. Therefore, they hated the people in the village and especially Nie Yun, who had found them and dragged them into the abyss.

But they were restricted. They could only kill batch after batch of outsiders that Nie Yun brought to the village. However, the one who truly killed was always Nie Yun.

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and a person was thrown in.

It was Li Tao. He had been so frightened by the ghostly bridesmaids the night before that he was beside himself. Now, he looked up and saw the two ghostly bridesmaids standing neatly, covered in bl00d. He immediately screamed and tried to escape.

However, the door had already been closed by Luo Ning. He was also kicked by Luo Ning. The kick wasn’t hard, but it landed right at Jiang Nan’s feet.

Jiang Nan: ?

Playing football?

Li Tao saw Jiang Nan and didn’t care about the pain on his body. He was terrified and tried to hug her legs to feel safe, mumbling incoherently.

“I heard it. You killed Nie Yun, didn’t you? You must have the ability to kill other ghosts. As long as you complete the wedding, I can go home…”

Jiang Nan didn’t like strangers getting close. She immediately chilled her eyes and kicked the frantic person away with force.

Luo Ning walked over. She still had that lazy, indifferent look, as if she didn’t care about anything.

“To complete the wedding, do you have to kill them?”

She asked, her voice like a clear stream, with an innate magic. Every word was guiding the other person.

Jiang Nan raised her eyes and looked at her. For a moment, she was in a daze. The person in front of her overlapped with a figure in her memory.

Luo Ning’s lips curled into a slight smile, and she chuckled, bewitching and flamboyant, and answered for Jiang Nan.

“Oh, you’re not willing.”

Her voice dragged out the ending, the smile not diminishing, carrying a thought-provoking meaning.

“Then don’t disappoint me.”

Saying that, she took her hand. Her hot breath came out near Jiang Nan’s ear, intimate and ambiguous.

She guided her, pointing to the long procession outside, and asked her.

“Do they deserve to die?”

“Yes.”

Jiang Nan’s lips slightly parted, and as her throat moved, she uttered a single word.

A strange fluctuation followed, as if obeying one person, and swept through the entire instance’s magnetic field.

Her pale eyes filled with bl00d, becoming bloodthirsty and arrogant.

…

The door opened. Luo Ning led Jiang Nan by the hand and walked out of the courtyard. The torch in her hand swayed in the wind.

Under the sunlight, her red dress was particularly eye-catching. Her head was covered by a red veil, making it impossible to tell if the person inside was happy or sad.

She helped her into the sedan chair. The sound of gongs and drums rang out again, and the sedan chair was carried away, swaying.

Luo Ning watched the procession leave, her eyes filled with an emotion that was hard to understand.

She threw the torch in her hand toward the pile of dry firewood stacked in the corner of the small courtyard. It was instantly engulfed by flames, and a huge fire started.

One house after another was reduced to ashes in the big fire. The wind blew, and the fire quickly caught up to the wedding procession. The “people” also disappeared one by one as they were consumed by the fire.

The sedan chair, now without anyone carrying it, fell to the ground. The wooden structure and flammable silks were quickly ignited, and the person inside was also burned to death.

“Don’t look back.”

“Congratulations, player, on clearing the instance. You have been removed from the instance.”

“Side quest completed. The reward will be randomly issued to the player.”

…

The disheveled woman escaped the village. The sound of police sirens came from a distance, getting closer. Soon, someone found the woman. As they helped her up, they found that she was tightly protecting a camera in her hand.

The woman took one last look at the village behind her. The mud on her face couldn’t hide her bright, relieved smile. She said.

“I found the evidence.”