When Tang Ning saw this, he was completely stunned, as if someone had poured a basin of ice water on him in the middle of winter!
The betrothal gift Ji Lianyunguo couldn't use! He had to return it! But in the video, he actually poured all the betrothal gifts into the well!
It would be fine if it was poured somewhere else, but there is a black-haired ghost in that well!
Tang Ning stared blankly at himself in the video. He turned around stiffly with his eyes still closed. He held the empty wooden box in his hand and casually threw it aside before walking forward step by step.
Ji Ke, who was filming the video, seemed to hesitate for a moment, but eventually reached out to pick up the wooden box and followed Tang Ning.
In the video, Tang Ning slowly walked into the room and lay in the coffin like a zombie. With Ji Lianyun who also looked like a corpse, the whole scene was particularly gloomy.
Now Tang Ning finally understood why Ji Ke looked at him with such strange eyes when he opened his eyes.
"Do you remember what you did?" Ji Ke asked.
Tang Ning shook his head. If Ji Ke hadn't taken the video, he would have thought someone had stolen these things when he woke up.
"Do you have a sleepwalking problem?" Ji Ke continued to ask.
Tang Ning continued to shake his head. He was indeed under a lot of mental pressure recently, but when he entered the game, he could be sure that he would not sleepwalk. This was because after he got a cat, he installed a surveillance camera in the room. Every night, it was his cat that walked around the house.
Ji Ke fell silent.
The faint morning light shone in through the hole in the door. It was now six in the morning. It was daybreak, but the village was still silent. There was no rooster crowing, no one was around, and Ji Lianyun and Lin Yun were both unconscious in the house.
Although a series of strange things happened, they survived the night.
Ji Ke pulled Lin Yun up and shook him continuously. After shaking for a long time, Lin Yun finally opened his eyes. He leaned against the wall and looked past Ji Ke at Tang Ning.
Tang Ning was wearing loose, ill-fitting clothes, sitting on the coffin in a daze, wrapped in a bright red wedding blanket. Her little face was pale, and looking at her made people want to hold her in their arms and comfort her.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yun's voice was slightly hoarse.
Tangning raised his eyes and saw the blanket sliding down from his shoulders. The collar was pulled a little wider, but the owner of the clothes didn't pay attention to these details. "A lot of things happened while you were unconscious."
Lin Yun looked at Ji Ke, his eyes seemed to ask "What's wrong with you, little brother?"
Ji Ke looked at Lin Yun with the same eyes.
Tang Ning did not notice the eye contact between the two men. He stood up from the coffin and left the room with Lin Yun and Ji Ke. The three of them stood in the dimly lit village and talked quietly.
Everyone recounted what happened to them last night. Tangning wanted to briefly mention his wedding night, but just as he was about to gloss over it, Lin Yun suddenly said in a serious tone, "Be more specific. Every bit of information is crucial to us. What did Ji Lianyun do to you during your wedding night?"
Tangning blushed, "There's no need to bring this up."
Ji Ke said seriously: "I think it is necessary. Maybe this is related to your abnormal behavior of throwing away the betrothal gifts late at night."
Two sharp gazes fell on Tang Ning at the same time. Tang Ning was like a baby bird whose shell had been broken, wet, sticky, and at a loss as she faced the strange world.
Her long eyelashes fluttered unnaturally. Tangning lowered her head and whispered, "We kissed accidentally."
"Kiss? How did you kiss? Did you just touch the lips, or did you put your tongue in as well?" Lin Yun's voice was cold.
The soft lips opened and closed, and uttered the words that were too embarrassing to say: "Only touched the lips."
Ji Ke asked from the side: "Why did you only touch your lips? Are you hiding something?"
Tangning quickly shook her head, "We only touched each other's lips once, and then he..."
Ji Ke and Lin Yun both stared at him closely.
Tangning lowered her head again, looking at her toes and said with difficulty, "Then he started to untie my belt."
When talking about this, Tangning lightly complained to Lin Yun, "The belt you tied around my waist was too tight. He took a long time to untie it."
Ji Ke looked at Lin Yun expressionlessly.
Lin Yun ignored Ji Ke and continued to ask, "What happens next?"
Tangning closed his eyes and said in despair, "He took off my shoes and tied my hands and feet with a belt."
At this point, Tang Ning's fingers curled up, and there were still red marks on her wrists, like the marks left after delicate petals were pinched to draw water out of them by fingernails.
The breath in the air became slightly heavier.
"What happened next?" Ji Ke asked.
Tangning was so embarrassed that he almost cried. He really didn't want to go down, "He called me wife and asked me to call him husband. And..."
Moisture overflowed from the corners of her red eyes. Tang Ning almost lowered her head to her chest. She twisted her slender fingers together, and her hoarse voice was tinged with a hint of crying.
"Okay. I understand." Lin Yun interrupted Tangning and said, "Tell me what happened after Ji Ke passed out."
Tang Ning raised his head as if relieved. His trembling eyes flashed with excitement as he cast his gaze on Lin Yun's face. He completely forgot who had forced him to say these shameful things word for word in the first place.
Ji Ke looked at Lin Yun coldly.
At this time, Tangning tried to tell his story naturally. When he talked about how he met Yama when he went to call back souls, Lin Yun said, "Impossible."
Tangning looked at Lin Yun in confusion.
"What you saw couldn't be Yama." Lin Yun said firmly: "Only in S-level copies can a 'god' appear. There is no way such a being can appear in a B-level copy."
"There is only one possibility, you have encountered a ghost who deceives you."
Tangning was stunned for a moment, remembering that last night was indeed very strange. How could Yama accuse someone of such a crime and impose such a punishment? It turned out that it was not Yama at all.
"What is the purpose of the ghost doing this?" Ji Ke asked.
"After the ghost leaves, you must remain loyal to your husband and not have any second thoughts." Lin Yun guessed, "Perhaps this is its purpose."
"It wants you to choose between the two. Of course, you should choose it. Husband is your exclusive name for it, and this is already clear." For some reason, when Lin Yun spoke the second half of the sentence, her tone sounded a little sarcastic.
Ji Ke frowned and said, "You spent so much effort to create such an illusion, just for this sentence?"
"Could it be that it went to all that trouble just to tickle Tangning's soles?"
After hearing this, Ji Ke was convinced.
Lin Yun stared at Ji Ke, "You saw two shadows on Ji Lianyun's body, are you sure you didn't see it wrong?"
Ji Ke said firmly: "I clearly saw two shadows reflected on the wall."
Lin Yun closed his eyes and was silent for a while, then opened his eyes and said, "I think the ghost in Ji Lianyun is most likely the ghost groom we met in the woods. Both it and Ji Lianyun want to marry Tang Ning."
Tang Ning and Ji Ke both agreed with this view.
"I have three guesses now. One is that Ji Lianyun's horoscope is a ghost-killing horoscope, so the ghost groom can only appear on him occasionally. If this is the case, we need to help Ji Lianyun weaken the ghost groom's power."
"The second guess is that Ji Lianyun's horoscope is of no use. What really scares the ghosts is the evil spirit in him."
"What about the other three?" Tangning asked.
"Ji Lianyun and the ghost groom both have a deterrent effect on evil spirits." Lin Yun said coldly.
Tang Ning sincerely hoped that there were three guesses, so that no matter what state Ji Lianyun was in, he would be able to scare away the ghosts.
"Tang Ning, when Ji Lian Yun was unconscious, the black-haired ghost was not afraid of it." Lin Yun looked particularly solemn when he arrived here.
Tangning nodded.
"I guess when they fight for control of the body, they will lose their deterrent effect on the evil spirits, and ordinary ghosts will be able to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak in. In this case," Lin Yunchen said, "even if they don't fight for the sovereignty of the body, we will have to help one of them fight for it."
"If they are evenly matched, Ji Lianyun will fall into a coma for a long time. What difference does it make whether they get married or not?"
Tangning nodded quickly, "Then who should we help? What should we do?"
Lin Yun asked in a low voice: "Can you tell me the cards you got this round?"
Tangning hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth, and whispered the card settings into Lin Yun's ear.
Rapunzel Card Setting 1: Close contact with you can bring benefits to certain beings
Rapunzel Card Set 2: Both the Prince and the Witch Want You
After listening to her, Lin Yun stared at Tangning and said without hesitation, "The key lies in you!"
"You took the ghost groom's betrothal gift, wore the wedding dress given by the ghost groom, and got on the ghost groom's sedan chair. The person who appeared in front of you and married you was the ghost groom."
"If you hadn't accepted those things at that time, the one you would have married should be Ji Lianyun."
"Dowry." Lin Yun murmured, "Ji Lianyun asked you to return the betrothal gifts. If you return them tomorrow, it will be bad for the ghost groom."
"Then it was the ghost groom who threw away the betrothal gifts at the wellhead in the middle of the night. He didn't want you to return the betrothal gifts."
Tangning followed Lin Yun's path and thought it made sense. However, he remembered what Grandpa Ji said and couldn't help but say, "But Grandpa Ji, throwing away the betrothal gifts means you don't want to marry a ghost groom."
"I don't know why you are nice to that NPC, but you have to remember this." Lin Yun said coldly, "In the game dungeon, don't trust anyone except these NPCs."
"You can listen to half of what they say, but you must not believe them all. Your blood sacrifice method was proposed by Grandpa Ji. The person who proposed this method is definitely not a good person. I even suspect that if all the villagers had knelt down and apologized to the grave of the man in the tomb, it would have been more effective than the blood sacrifice."
"After all, according to Ji Lianyun's words, their village is a tomb-keeping village, and their ancestors were tomb keepers. After the villagers stole a treasure, they held a temple fair to appease the anger of the thief."
"Do you think it's important to hold a temple fair?" Lin Yun said calmly: "The key is that they are the descendants of the original grave keepers."
"I think even if we don't hold a temple fair, we can kneel down at the grave and cry our hearts out, and these people can still be forgiven."
After listening to Lin Yun's analysis, Tangning suddenly realized what was going on. He felt that Lin Yun's analysis made perfect sense. He quickly asked, "So, Grandpa Ji was lying to me?"
Lin Yun was talking freely as Tang Ning looked at him in admiration. His eyes paused for a moment, "If we analyze it from the perspective of evil, Grandpa Ji might have made some kind of deal with the ghost groom. He offered you as a tribute to the ghost groom in the name of soul-calling, and then Ji Ke was found."
Tang Ning opened his eyes wide. Indeed, no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find Ji Ke. The moment he woke up from the illusion, he appeared in the mirror.
"So it is very likely that Grandpa Ji lied to keep you from picking up the betrothal gifts." Lin Yun was silent for a moment. "Of course, it is not ruled out that my speculation is wrong. After all, speculation is just speculation. I can only make an analysis based on the existing information—"
“Maybe someone gave us the wrong information.”
Tangning was completely stunned by what he heard. He asked in confusion, "So what should we do now?"
"The safest way is to throw away half and keep the other half." Lin Yun looked at Tang Ning, who was still confused, and translated, "In layman's terms, it means having a foot in both boats. If the situation changes, you can kick one out immediately."
Tangning understood now.
He just cracked open.