After Concubine Qian stuffed Concubine Wu's body into the well, Xia Qi and his sister guessed that the placement of the body or soul might be related to the copy.
Looking at the sudden change in the weather, Xia Qi's face looked rather unhappy.
The seven wells in Fengdu City can devour the corpses or souls of players, and seem to be able to convert the dead into energy. I hope these changes will not affect the Ghost King.
However, this is obviously unlikely.
The status of the copy is closely related to the boss, but I don't know to what extent it will affect him.
"Are we really going in?" The moment they stepped into the Imperial Garden, Concubine Ou paused and was visibly scared.
"I'll go in, you guys wait for me outside." Xia Qi pushed aside the grass in front of him, intending to go find the Ghost King alone.
It's already dark, the Ghost King should have appeared in the dungeon.
"Brother Xia, I'll go in with you." The younger sister didn't care much and walked forward a few steps. In the Rose Earl, she was almost beheaded by the Earl several times. Now that the Ghost King has never laid a hand on her, she is naturally fearless.
Seeing that Xia Qi and his sister had already walked into the Imperial Garden, just as Ou Bin was standing there hesitating, a black figure suddenly passed by not far away. The figure was carrying a large bag on his shoulders, but he was running incredibly fast. There seemed to be a female ghost chasing him from behind. He was running for his life.
"It's Concubine Qian!" Concubine Ou pointed in the direction where Concubine Qian was running and exclaimed. When he looked at the object behind the figure, his breath suddenly stopped, "... Xia Qi, look!"
At this moment, the sky became increasingly gloomy. In an instant, the air around the imperial garden also became cold. A strong wind swept through the grass, sweeping up countless dead branches, fallen leaves and dust. The strong wind wailed like a ghost sobbing in the ear.
After being reminded by Concubine Ou, Xia Qi also raised his head and looked in the direction not far away. It happened that Concubine Qian had run quite close, so Xia Qi could clearly see the man chasing after her.
In the dark woods, the man's white figure gradually became clearer from blurry. He was floating in the air, his black hair flying in the wind, and he exuded the breath of death. His pale robe was blown by the wind, and the cuffs bulged up and fluttered violently in the air, making his whole body look empty. He didn't look like a human at all, but more like a ghost crawling out of hell.
What was different from last night was that his figure was taller than before, and therefore looked somewhat creepy. When he got closer, Xia Qi discovered that the Ghost Emperor's face was as pale as gold paper. His face, which was originally full of vivid expressions, now looked like an expressionless mask. His originally bright and sparkling pupils turned into a lifeless grayish-white color, and his eyes were empty and confused.
He seemed to have no purpose and followed Concubine Qian instinctively, turning into a dungeon boss who only knew how to chase and kill people madly.
Just as Xia Qi was thinking this, he saw the Ghost Emperor not far away suddenly lift up his sleeves, revealing an extremely pale hand at the cuff, which lightly swept towards the back of Concubine Qian!
"Be careful!" Even though the Ghost King's hands seemed to have no strength, Ou Bin, who was familiar with the nature of the bosses in each copy, screamed instinctively.
“Snap!”
Concubine Qian was worthy of being the second-in-line concubine. As soon as Concubine Ou finished her cry, she rolled to the side instinctively and barely avoided the attack of the Ghost King who was in a runaway state.
Even so, his left shoulder was deeply wounded by the Ghost King.
Her shoulders were instantly stained red with blood. Concubine Qian didn't care about the heavy bag in her hands. After rolling on the ground twice, she rushed madly towards Xia Qi and others.
"Xia Qi, run!" Seeing Concubine Qian rushing towards them, Concubine Ou saw that Xia Qi was still standing there motionless, so she pulled his sleeve hard.
Xia Qi still didn't move. He frowned and stared at the Ghost King who was getting closer and closer without blinking.
He didn't want to leave yet, he wanted to see more clearly.
As Concubine Qian got closer, the Ghost Emperor was only 10 meters away from them.
Perhaps it was the instinctive fear of the powerful and terrifying boss, Xia Qi swallowed his saliva and nervously squeezed the magic wand in his sleeve.
"Xia Qi, if you don't run, then I will!"
Just when Ou Bin was about to turn around and run, the Ghost King who was chasing her stopped first.
When facing Xia Qi, the Ghost Emperor's expression changed slightly for a moment. He tilted his head and looked at Xia Qi, and his eyes slowly came into focus.
Slowly, surprise appeared on his mask-like face, and then turned into confusion.
Then, his gray eyes narrowed and he frowned, as if trying hard to think about who Xia Qi was.
Xia Qi clenched his fists nervously, trying to lower his voice and keep his voice calm.
"Do you still recognize me?" Xia Qi asked in a low voice.
"… "
The Ghost King maintained a cold expression and looked at him with empty eyes.
Their eyes met in the air.
"I'm Xia Qi."
Xia Qi pointed at himself and tried to force a smile at him: "What's wrong with you?"
Perhaps his smile was too lethal, the Ghost Emperor's gray eyes suddenly blinked and turned back to their original black color, but this brief clarity did not last long. Panic and worry flashed across his eyes. Without waiting for Xia Qi to continue speaking, he suddenly turned around and blew away as quickly as a gust of wind.
“Wow—”
He walked particularly quickly and decisively, and his speed was even faster than when he was chasing Concubine Qian just now. It was as if there was a ghost chasing him from behind, and it seemed like he was fleeing in a panic.
Watching the Ghost Emperor fleeing in a hurry, Xia Qi thought that he was not completely out of his mind.
Qian Fei, who had suddenly saved her life, slowly got up from the ground, looked in surprise at the direction where the Ghost Emperor disappeared, and asked in disbelief: "... Boss left, left?"
Xia Qi pursed his lips and thought, to be precise, he ran away.
Seeing that the Ghost King was now avoiding him, something worrying happened again.
The Ghost King seemed to not want Xia Qi to see him like this.
"Brother Xia, should we find him?" The younger sister's expression was full of sympathy. Perhaps the scene of the Count crucifying himself was too shocking, and the younger sister still remembered it. "Will he hurt himself again?"
"This time... it shouldn't happen." Xia Qi pulled Concubine Qian up from the ground and walked towards the bushes. "Let's go in and pick up your bag."
"Oh, okay." Concubine Qian stood up in a daze and followed Xia Qi forward. When she was almost reaching her big bag, Concubine Qian finally reacted. She turned her head and looked at Xia Qi in shock, wondering how this man could be so brave that he dared to accompany him into the Imperial Garden
"This is..." After coming to the big bundle, Xia Qi paused for a moment, and then he realized that this was not a big bundle at all, but a corpse that had been dead for a long time.
"It's Concubine Zhao." Concubine Qian's left arm was just injured. He lifted up Concubine Zhao's body with one hand and asked, "Can you help me lift it?"
"Okay." Xia Qi bent down and lifted up the legs of Concubine Zhao's body. The two of them carried the body out one after the other.
After the two carried the body out, Ou Bin took a glance at the body and knew it was Concubine Zhao. His scalp tingled: "Why is Concubine Zhao's body still here?"
"Princess Zhao should thank the boss for throwing him into the imperial garden. If his body had been on the roadside at the time, who knows who would have eaten it." Concubine Qian sneered. Concubine Zhao had a lot of experience points. If she had been eaten by someone, she might have become another fourth concubine.
Xia Qi was in a bad mood and didn't want to discuss the Ghost Emperor with Concubine Qian, so he changed the subject and asked, "Where do you want to go after you move Concubine Zhao's body out?"
"Throw his body into the Thief Swallowing Well." Concubine Qian turned her head and looked in another direction. "The Thief Swallowing Well is in Shoukang Palace. Can you help me?"
I don’t know if it’s fate, but the Thief Swallowing Well is actually in Concubine Sun’s palace.
"Okay." Xia Qi didn't say much and continued to help Concubine Qian carry the body.
The four of them walked together towards Shoukang Palace.
Due to the change in the copy environment, the Fengdu Imperial City finally looked like Fengdu. The lanterns hanging on the palace roads fluttered in the wind, emitting a cold white light, which looked very creepy. The shadows under the tall eaves were thicker than before, appearing spooky. The shadows on the ground even changed as they walked, as if countless ghosts were baring their fangs and claws.
Ou Bin tried not to look at the mad shadow on the ground and said nervously, "Aren't you afraid?"
"What are you afraid of? Aren't you a high-level player?" His sister looked at him with contempt.
"I'm not afraid of monsters... but I'm afraid of ghosts." Ou Bin tightened her collar and complained softly.
Because Concubine Ou was afraid of ghosts, he stopped talking when the four of them walked towards Shoukang Palace, leaving Xia Qi with peace and quiet.
After arriving at Shoukang Palace, everyone found that the guards in the palace were very lax and Concubine Sun did not seem to be in Shoukang Palace.
Concubine Qian and Xia Qi carelessly carried the corpse to the Thief Swallowing Well. By then, as it was already night, there were no ghosts in the Thief Swallowing Well, and no one knew where the ghost that had transformed into a human in the well had gone.
"Really, really throw it in." Seeing Concubine Qian moving the corpse's head towards the wellhead, Concubine Ou swallowed her saliva.
"What else? Don't you want to go out?" Concubine Qian glanced at him coldly, "You've eaten people before, haven't you? Are you worried that you can't get out?"
“No…” Concubine Ou couldn’t help but burst into tears. She was not afraid that she couldn’t get out, but that Concubine Qian would throw the body in, and then there would be more ghosts.
"Throw it away." Xia Qi lifted the corpse's other shoulder with one hand and stuffed it into the well.
As the body slowly slid into the well, the younger sister strode to the well, pressed the body's vest, raised her head and asked, "Brother Xia, are you willing to give up the Ghost King?"
Xia Qi glanced at his sister, smiled bitterly, and said what he had said before: "I will not give up on him until the last moment."
Not only that, he will stand with him in this copy.
He wouldn't let him face it all alone.
Looking at Xia Qi's serious expression, the sister was quite moved. For some reason, she was even a little happy, although she didn't know why she was happy.
"Okay." My sister pursed her lips and let go of her hand.
With a "plop", Concubine Zhao's body fell into the well, splashing a cluster of high water drops.
At the moment when Concubine Zhao's body was swallowed by the well, the sky not far away turned from black to red, and large patches of blood seeped out from the black curtain. The originally low humming sound of the wind turned into a sharp whistle, which sounded creepy.
"Alright." Concubine Qian clapped her hands and stood up from the ground with a look of satisfaction, like an old farmer picking vegetables. "If we throw Concubine Lin in, the gate of hell will be opened today. Unfortunately, we have to wait a few more days, until the Ghost Festival."
"You are so bold that you even dare to kill Concubine Lin!" Upon hearing that Concubine Qian intended to harm Concubine Lin, Concubine Ou gave him a thumbs up.
Concubine Lin has three S-level items and even a pass. Concubine Qian must be so bold that she actually wants to stuff Concubine Lin into the well!
Was it the clothesline that gave him the courage, or was it Concubine Lin’s red underwear that gave him the courage
"Tsk, what are you afraid of? I'm not afraid of him." Concubine Qian lifted her hair, and Xia Qi discovered that the wounds on Concubine Qian's face caused by Concubine Lin had scabbed over and looked bumpy.
Of course, Concubine Qian didn't care about her image at all. She raised her chin towards the three people and said, "By the way, do me another favor."
"What's the matter?"
Concubine Qian narrowed her eyes and said indifferently, "Help Concubine Sun and I collect the bodies."