NOVEL NEXT Chapter 74
Tentacles?!
Yu Qing’s entire body felt cold, trembling unconsciously. He raised his fingertips, just about to touch the small tentacle that had suddenly appeared in front of him. The next second—”Hiss…”
Sharp pain shot through his fingertips as a drop of blood instantly welled up, only to be swept away by an invisible force.
Before leaving, the tentacle didn’t forget to gently wrap around his injured fingertip, carefully stopping the bleeding.
“…What are you doing?”
Yu Qing had a headache. What would happen to the two Si Yus after they merged? Why were there still little tentacles around?
If the black snake’s words about being “one body and the same origin” were true, then these two Si Yus should be fragments of some greater entity. After merging… would a complete form emerge? Could he finally learn some behind-the-scenes secrets about the game?
But if that were the case, what would “marriage” mean for him? Was he bound to tie himself to these fragments—or to the original entity?
Yu Qing racked his brain, searching for answers, but his emotional system offered nothing. He couldn’t describe what he felt, let alone understand it. Eventually, he decided it might be easier just to be a widower.
As he pondered these thoughts, hundreds of ghost brides had already surrounded the skeletal ghost groom in front of him.
The brides had long, sharp fingernails and pursed lips. The overwhelming resentment rose like a wave, enveloping the entire dilapidated wedding hall. Yet, none of them made the first move. They remained in a tense stalemate, their fury bottled up.
Finally, someone shouted, “Why are you just standing there? There’s so many of us—what are we afraid of?!”
As soon as the words were spoken, the ghost bride at the front was shoved forward by an invisible force. Poof! Her sharp nails pierced the groom’s neck, and the massacre began.
The ghost brides lined up neatly, assuming that the shout had come from the first ghost bride who had attacked. The years of oppression and bullying exploded into fury. In a short time, the scrawny groom was torn apart by the enraged ghost brides, his body left in shreds.
But… only the audience in the live broadcast room saw the truth—Yu Qing had been the one to shout from behind the ghost bride!
[WTF? Was that female voice just now… Yu Qing?! Was it the host who yelled?! Wow, I’m kind of impressed.]
[The monsters are fighting each other, and the host set it off? This move… I have to say, it’s pretty slick.]
[Not only is Yu Qing slick, but did you notice? He took advantage of the chaos, bought the “Shadowless Slingshot” from the system mall, and took a shot at the ghost bride closest to the groom!]
[Haha, the monsters are going crazy. Who even remembers that their original targets were the hosts they wanted to kill? Hahaha!]
[Am I the only one who thinks the host looks beautiful in a skirt? His legs are so pale, and with that red wedding dress, the sweat on his forehead looks… oddly charming!]
While the monsters clashed, Yu Qing finally managed to gather some strength. Leaning against a pillar, he glanced decisively toward the door.
Strange obstacles blocked his path, but despite everything, he still couldn’t get out.
So, he turned around and observed the rules of the Wedding Hall.
Only then did I realize that the arrangement and combination of these rules were strange.
Most of them were four lines arranged together, three of them written vertically, and the remaining one placed under the three rules and written horizontally. This formed a very strange shape—a rectangle on top with a trapezoidal base below.
Like… very much like…!!
Suddenly, Yu Qing seemed to have figured something out and immediately ran to the back of the wedding hall!
Sure enough, there was a large utility room hidden behind the tall wooden screen.
The door was unlocked; anyone could open it and take a look.
It was very cold outside, and the closer Yu Qing got, the heavier he felt. His footsteps were heavy, his wedding dress was heavy, his phoenix crown was heavy, and even his eyelids felt heavy.
It seemed as though there was something inside trying its best to prevent him from getting closer.
The young man was panting, and his physical strength was severely depleted. After a while, there was a crash—
Finally, when his strength was nearly gone, he opened the door.
It was dark inside. Yu Qing took a few sudden breaths, his steps unsteady, and he stumbled, falling against the hard wood, causing pain in his hands and feet.
When he came to his senses, he immediately used the weak light of the system to see the wooden blocks around him—they were tablets! Wordless tablets!
Looking at their shape, they perfectly matched the regular arrangement outside!
So, the young man gathered his strength again, grabbed a handful of tablets, and went outside, like fitting pieces into a jigsaw puzzle of those headache-inducing, disgusting rules in the wedding hall. The next second, click!
Sure enough, the tablet pressed down, and then the rules vanished, faintly revealing three words…
Yu Qing’s eyes suddenly lit up—he was right!
The young man clenched his right fist, ready to read the words clearly, but then realized that the brides had already killed the groom in the coffin and were surrounding him, three layers deep.