Npc 79

“Ah--!!”

“Wow—! Hahahaha—!”

Screams of despair, children's cries, and women's wails mixed together.

This turned the once peaceful town, surrounded by mountains, into a cacophony of noise and chaos!

At this moment, the ghostly group whose sealing protection had been lifted had completely lost their combat ability and were being cruelly slaughtered by the Red Ghost Lady and the children.

Their limbs were broken, their organs were removed, but miraculously, they didn’t die, or rather, they had already died a long time ago, so they couldn’t die again.

Blood flowed down the bluestone street, and the Banners filled with various magical symbols that every household hung were torn down, soaking in the blood.

Severed limbs and entrails flowed from one end of the town to the other, piling up into a small mountain of human body parts!

A little paper figure dressed in red, with black hair, was constantly moving these organs and limbs, using the blood-soaked banners marked with the symbols meant to control them, tying the dismembered ghosts together like livestock.

The sun hid behind the clouds, and under the pale sky, a long-awaited revenge was being carried out, while also preparing for a bloody wedding.

The few people standing halfway up the mountain and the players in the forum watched this scene, all frightened and stunned.

[What... exactly is going on here]

[Can someone summarize? This dungeon is a bit confusing, I haven’t been paying attention to the main storyline.]

[I wasn’t paying attention to the main storyline either!]

[Upstairs +1]

[What’s going on? What’s the situation here?]

[Such a leap! Really such a leap! Why did Jiang Yan suddenly go crazy? How did Cang Rou get Puppet Strings implanted, and then take Jiang Yan away while he was going crazy? How did Jiang Yan seem to be about to be [Polluted], but then suddenly come back to life? And then Teacher Jian suddenly become a spy]

[What is even happening?]

[Bad review! Trash dungeon!]

[Can’t help but say, the main system’s dungeons are really getting worse, it feels like they’re just messing with us players, abandoning logic altogether.]

[There seems to be a reason for this, it’s related to the above question...]

Not only the players in the forum, but also Tao Shi and a few other players standing halfway up the mountain, including Cang Rou and Ding Wanyu (both real NPCs), were all equally confused.

Cao Youfeng looked at the scene where Jiang Yan and Yu Xiu were snuggling together, kissing... No! Three of them!

He couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth and asked, “Can someone summarize what’s going on here?”

After entering this dungeon, his focus had been on Jiang Yan and Yu Jia, who was trying to steal achievements and players from them, and hadn’t paid much attention to the storyline itself.

So what’s going on now?

This dungeon has really taken a huge leap. It seems like it’s about to end?

As he said this, he looked at the people around him.

Jiang Yan, as the real NPC, couldn’t answer his question, and Cang Rou and Ding Wanyu, also real NPCs, pretended not to hear him in order to maintain their characters.

Of course, even if they could speak, they wouldn’t be able to explain anything.

In this dungeon, they were just doing their jobs as NPCs, completely unaware of the plot direction or rhythm. They were just seriously playing their roles.

On the other hand, one NPC was playing like a player.

Cao Youfeng glared at Jiang Yan, who was smiling brightly to maintain his character, then turned to look at Jian Hou, who was cooperating with Jiang Yan in his “spy” act.

Jian Hou looked innocent, “Don’t look at me, I don’t know much.”

This was true; this was his first dungeon, and he hadn’t even figured out the game rules.

Everything he did was just following the main group, while also serving as an undercover agent next to Yu Jia.

As for the direction of the dungeon, he was completely clueless.

As for what Jiang Yan intended to do, since Jiang Yan was a real NPC and he was acting as an undercover agent beside Yu Jia, he didn’t communicate much with Jiang Yan.

The occasional interactions were always within the scope of Jiang Yan’s character setup.

Therefore, he didn’t fully understand the situation either.

But what he did understand was that he and Jiang Yan should be out of danger now.

When he met Cao Youfeng’s gaze, Yu Jia smiled and shrugged, "Don’t look at me! My task is to kill Jiang Yan, not to complete the dungeon."

Yes, his task was Jiang Yan, and the dungeon didn’t really concern him.

He had originally entered this dungeon with the sole purpose of killing Jiang Yan. As for the completion of the dungeon, before entering, he thought that with Tao Shi and Cao Youfeng around, as long as he didn’t have any personal tasks, he could just coast through!

It turned out he really didn’t have a personal task.

Thus, since entering the dungeon, his goal had always been Jiang Yan, and his mind had been solely focused on this beautiful real NPC. As for the dungeon plot and pacing, he had never cared.

Seeing this, Cao Youfeng helplessly looked at Tao Shi next to him.

"Boss..." Cao Youfeng said with a tearful expression.

Tao Shi, with his blue hair, looked especially conspicuous as he stood amidst the dim, foggy mountains.

In fact, Tao Shi hadn’t paid much attention to the dungeon plot either. Looking at the sounds of fighting coming from the town, he asked, "Do you think I do not know? Is this dungeon setting really that chaotic?"

"Yeah..." Cao Youfeng said, pointing at Jiang Yan, who was happily laughing with his husband, looking festive.

Tao Shi cursed under his breath.

An S-rank dungeon, with three S-rank players, and yet it’s led by a C-rank NPC. What is this nonsense?!

Actually, they didn’t really not know what was happening.

The dungeon had progressed like this: Jiang Yan became the bride, Yu Jia was supposed to kill him, Teacher Jian betrayed, and everyone was under some curse. Jiang Yan destroyed the curse, "paper-fied" it, and asked everyone to help the Red Ghost Lady find their daughters. Fang Rui and Ling Kang died!

Jiang Yan suddenly went mad, broke the town's seal, Cang Rou was controlled by Yu Jia, and Jiang Yan was sealed away.

Jiang Yan was about to be polluted but then came back to life. Teacher Jian’s true identity as spy was exposed, and Jiang Yan destroyed the seal. Now, the town was in the middle of a bloody massacre of revenge.

It was clear that the problem with this dungeon now was: what exactly did Jiang Yan do?!

"Honestly, it’s shameful! Us three S-rank players didn’t play much of a role in this dungeon!" Tao Shi sighed.

"My task was never the dungeon, so I don’t care," Yu Jia said.

"Your task was to kill Jiang Yan, and you haven’t completed it!" Cao Youfeng mocked.

Yu Jia smirked disdainfully. "Your task was to recruit Jiang Yan into your guild, did you succeed?"

Tao Shi: "..."

Cao Youfeng: "..."

Well, a ridiculously chaotic dungeon, and a ridiculously chaotic ending.

At this time, Jiang Yan’s mind was focused on the players who were currently bantering, as he observed the situation in the town below.

It was almost over, right?

It must be nearly over, right?

He listened as the sounds of fighting gradually died down, until finally, there was nothing left.

Then, a mournful and suffocating wail echoed from the town, as if everyone in the town was collectively holding a wake.

"Minghu! Look at the mother! Wail... the soul, broken intestines... Wail... the child’s cry..."

The mournful cries continued, one after another, carried by the wind to the mountains. Around the exposed old graves, blackened blood-soaked mud remained, sending chills down one’s spine.

Suddenly, yellow-white pieces of something began to slowly fall from the sky.

"Snow?"

Jian Hou curiously caught a piece in his hand, then was startled!

"Paper money?! Is it raining paper money?!"

He hurriedly dropped the small piece of white paper money and quickly ducked behind Tao Shi.

Jiang Yan’s mother reached out and took a piece of paper money, sighing as she wiped her tears. "This isn’t paper money... This is the heavens mourning."

Jian Hou paused for a moment.

Looking at the paper money falling from the sky, and listening to the mournful cries, he thought of the massacre in the town just moments ago.

If this was the heavens mourning, then... what exactly were they mourning?

Jiang Yan’s mother seemed to know what he was thinking. She sighed and muttered through her tears, "Let them mourn. It’s time to cry.

"When one dies, the children and people in front of their coffin cry for them, but after death, they’re not even worthy of a tombstone... They’re alone on this mountain. So they cry for themselves..."

Jian Hou pondered, "They..."

Cang Rou, holding a little girl in one hand and cradling another child in her arms, slowly said, "The Red Ghost Lady of this town are not just me.

"I don’t even know how many Red Ghost Lady there are. Every grave might have one, but after over a thousand years, how many graves have disappeared?

"Old graves are built over with new graves, but none of them have descendants."

"Trapped in this town for so many years, even the gods can’t save them."

"Even the gods try and fail to resist. There’s no way out, no future, they can only let themselves become graves."

"And they watch as their daughters and granddaughters become new graves, buried beneath their old ones."

Ironically, they were the closest three people connected by the umbilical cord, each with different surnames. The earlier ones weren’t their ancestors, and the later ones weren’t their descendants. Yet fate was still damnedly continuing this cycle!

One umbilical cord connects to another umbilical cord, a new grave buries an old grave.

Finally, the tree has fallen, the "cause" has been broken.

It’s all over now.

Finally, it’s all over.

Thinking this, Cang Rou reached out and caught a thin, damp piece of paper money.

Cry, cry! No one came to mourn at the grave while alive, so after death, let them cry for themselves.

"We should go down and attend the funeral," she said.

Just as everyone was lost in thought, Jiang Yan spoke up.

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