The Days of a Player-Character in a Bizarre World - Chapter 26

The school didn’t have a person like that, no matter if they were in the humanities or any other major. So, could it be that Fang Yaoyao was lying to Xiaoyue? Or there was another reason.

That is, the boy named Zhuang Heng was lying.

After leaving the office, it was already getting dark. The sun had set.

Fu You didn’t dare to waste a single second. She gripped the card in her pocket tightly. She quickly rushed back to the dorm, gently put Xiaoyue’s head in her backpack, and then left the dorm again with the head on her back, walking toward the mountain behind the school.

The path through the woods was quiet and secluded.

She was a little nervous. She tightly held the straps of her backpack as she walked on the concrete path on the mountain. The concrete path was less than five meters long. The rest was a dirt road, not paved with concrete.

Maybe they didn’t want to pave it, or maybe the workers had already gone home for the day.

Fu You looked up at the sky. The twilight light filtered through the tree branches and sprinkled down bit by bit. She looked down at her shadow on the ground and instantly felt that this place wasn’t so bad.

If I could have a little place of my own one day, with beautiful scenery, lush trees and flowers around, and I could also get a super cute dog, I can’t imagine how happy I would be.

I could also get a cat.

Thinking about this, she instantly felt less scared. She held her head high and walked forward boldly. When she first stepped onto the concrete path, she could still see many couples on dates nearby, but the further she walked, the more she saw of anyone else besides herself.

“I feel like we’re getting closer.” Xiaoyue’s voice suddenly came from the backpack behind her. Although Fu You knew there was a head in her backpack, she still couldn’t believe that she was actually carrying a head. She was startled by the voice but quickly calmed down.

Xiaoyue continued, “Go straight for a hundred meters, then turn right. Walk for about another two hundred meters, and we should be there.”

“Okay.”

Fu You answered out loud, but she was thinking, Holy cow, that’s a very precise location! Wait, how long is a hundred meters? How long do I have to walk before I turn right?

Fortunately, every time she was about to reach the destination, Xiaoyue would speak up and guide her. After all, there were no signs or distance markers on the mountain. There were forked roads after every few steps, so it was easy to get lost if she didn’t calculate the distance correctly.

Finally, with Xiaoyue’s quiet guidance, Fu You quickly found the place where the bones were buried. She took out a small shovel from her bag and stood next to a medium-sized rock.

Next to it was a small sapling that had just grown. There was a small pit next to the sapling that looked like it had been dug, but only a little bit. It wasn’t dug any deeper.

Fu You guessed that the person didn’t have a good tool in their hand. They must have dug it with their bare hands. Otherwise, the pit wouldn’t have been dug this shallow if it were dug with a tool. She then thought of the dirt in Fang Yaoyao’s fingernails, and her eyes widened. She quietly mumbled,

“She must have used a lot of force…”

It was getting darker, but Fu You still noticed the footprints next to the rock. The footprints were a little messy, but they were all the same size. It was clearly the footprints of the same person.

So, there was no Zhuang Heng. It was just Fang Yaoyao’s imagination. But not necessarily. What if it were another person like Xiaoyue?

“It’s gloomy here. The stench of decay and corpses is very strong—”

Xiaoyue’s voice sounded. Fu You took off her backpack and unzipped it a little, then put it back on. Xiaoyue’s head then popped out of the backpack and looked at the pit.

“I feel like there’s something else in here besides my bones, but I’m not sure what it is. Maybe A’Yao became like that because she touched something in there.”

When Fu You heard that, she gripped the small shovel in her hand even tighter. She then squatted down and started digging in the unfinished pit.

The twilight finally ended, and the moonlight gradually came in. The shadow behind her was gradually stretched. Fu You’s shovel was still digging. Soon, she felt some resistance from the shovel. When she subconsciously brushed away the dirt, she saw the bones buried underneath.

“These are… these are my bones! These are my bones!” Xiaoyue’s head happily jumped out of the bag and dived into the pit as if she was doing a freestyle dive in a swimming pool.

Her spirit was now in the bones. She moved her bones and climbed out of the pit, smiling at Fu You.

The next second, the wind picked up.

The hot summer hadn’t passed yet, but it felt like winter was coming here. If it were autumn, Fu You might have thought that winter was coming and that she would be able to see snow.

“What is this…?”

Xiaoyue was overjoyed with her bones. She climbed out of the pit and stood on the edge. She saw that there was something else in the pit, so she squatted down again and reached her bony fingers into the pit to feel for it.

Suddenly, a hand grabbed her.

“Ahhh!” Xiaoyue tried very hard to pull her hand out, but she couldn’t. So she yelled, “Something! Something is grabbing me! Fu You, help me!”

Her voice was choked with sobs. Fu You looked at her and thought, if she were a living person, she would probably be a girl who cried a lot.

Xiaoyue was so scared that she didn’t dare to move. Fu You grabbed her and pulled hard, pulling her hand and a dagger out at the same time.

The dagger was rusty, and there was a very eye-catching thing on the handle. Fu You wiped away the dirt on the side and saw that a light purple gem was embedded in it, and it was glowing.

She didn’t know if the thing itself was glowing or if the moonlight was shining on it, but it was definitely very attractive and beautiful.

“If I’m not mistaken, this should be a dagger used by women for self-defense.”

Fu You listened to Xiaoyue’s words and looked at the dagger in her hand. Based on the time written on it and the history of Chengchun University, there must have been a war here or an invasion. This dagger was used by those people for self-defense.

Xiaoyue leaned in and looked. “It’s just a dagger, but… but I clearly felt someone grabbing me, and I couldn’t pull my hand out.”

“Perhaps, the person in this dagger grabbed you.” Fu You held the dagger and said to Xiaoyue, “But you don’t have to be scared. After all, you’re both ghosts.”

She had to admit, this was a very comforting statement. Xiaoyue still couldn’t help but feel scared. She twitched her mouth into a small smile and said, “How can we be the same? I’m just a little ghost. Compared to this kind of ancient ghost, I definitely can’t win. I don’t want to lose my body right after I got it back.”

As she spoke, Xiaoyue timidly moved closer to Fu You. Her movements were light, but her bones still made a “creaking” sound.

“So, is this the thing that harmed A’Yao? What should we do now?” Xiaoyue whispered, her steps also very light, afraid that her movements would be too loud and wake up the old ghost in the dagger.

Fu You looked at the dagger and paused. She said, “Let’s burn it.”

“Will it be completely burned?”

“Let’s try.”

She was a person of action. Fu You took out her phone and called Ren Jiyu, but the phone rang for a long time, and no one answered. She was anxious, so she opened another person’s name.

Soon, the person on the other end spoke, “Did Sister finally miss me?”

She could tell that he was very happy. He was so happy that he started teasing Fu You. Fu You had never called him before, so he was overjoyed with this sudden initiative.

On the abandoned basketball court, Fu Lu was standing with one foot on the leader’s head. He took off another person’s shirt to wipe the bl00d off his hands. He was calm and unhurried. He put his finger to his mouth in a “shhh” gesture while speaking softly to Fu You on the phone.

“Okay, I’ll be right there. Wait for me, Sister.”

Only after Fu You hung up did Fu Lu put his phone away. He also put away the long-lost smile on his face. He stood up straight and kicked the leader’s head with his foot. He sneered and said,

“You guys are pretty lucky this time. My sister called me. She needs me right now. For her sake, I’ll let you off the hook. But when you go back, say hello to your master for me. If there’s a next time, I don’t know what I’ll do~”

After he said that, Fu Lu turned and left.

It wasn’t until his figure disappeared from the abandoned basketball court that the people who had been beaten down slowly dared to get up from the ground. The fear on their faces still hadn’t faded, and their legs were still weak.

She had to admit, Fu Lu’s execution was top-notch. He didn’t make Fu You wait for long. He came to her side with a black backpack in just a few steps.

When he saw the scene in front of him, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes and look at Fu You. “Sister, what… what are you doing? Are you changing majors?”

“I wish I were. See this pile of bones? They belong to a girl from the dorm across from me. To be more accurate, she’s an upperclassman.”

Fu You wasn’t afraid of Fu Lu knowing what she was doing. After all, being completely transparent with him was a sign of sincerity. Maybe it would even give him a boost in happiness. That would be great.

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear. But why was the reward getting smaller? Never mind. She didn’t want to argue with the system. Less was better than nothing.

It’s hard to imagine that a two-star mission is already like this. How difficult will the later missions be?

“This… dagger…” Fu Lu’s eyes looked at the dagger in Fu You’s hand. He reached out and took the dagger, examining it in his hand. He unknowingly frowned.

Fu You saw everything. “What’s wrong? Is it familiar?”

“No… not familiar. I’ve brought you everything you need, Sister…”

Fu Lu’s answer wasn’t very clear. Even if it was, she wouldn’t believe him. But she didn’t say anything more. She took the dagger back from Fu Lu’s hand and put it in the pit. She had already put a lot of dry branches in the pit and poured the gasoline that Fu Lu had bought onto it.

If the gasoline didn’t work, she would try sulfuric acid.