Chapter 27

“We’re going to die, la– the monster is eating skeletons!” You Xi heard the skeletal men shouting from a distance. Behind the skeleton army, there was a huge monster. It was really huge. Because it couldn’t walk straight upright within the underground palace, which was only around four meters tall, it had to stride forward on its stomach. The monster had a big fat face and a big mouth that was squished into crookedness by fat.

“What’s with the paperman…” Guo Juexing was so shocked that he couldn’t speak or understand, but You Xi pulled him along as he joined the crowd of the skeleton army and fled.

“Go here!” You Xi commanded. “The monster is huge. Everyone should go to the small cave to flee for their lives. He can’t get in there!”

“Don’t do it!” A skeleton said, “That cave is full of termites, it’s awful! If you don’t know what’s around you, don’t command blindly. Just follow me!”

“Then it’s better to be obedient rather than polite.” You Xi was embarrassed.

After running for approximately five minutes, they finally arrived in front of a cave that they could enter. The skeleton who had just spoken to You Xi shouted loudly: “Two people per row, follow in order to enter the cave, ah. Don’t push!”

“Enter!” He pushed You Xi. “–Ah. You’re a player! The players are going in!!!”

Guo Juexing and You Xi were speechless. They were in the first row and the skeletons behind them were all waiting, so they stopped chatting with the skeleton, whose mind was ten times slower, and ran into the cave together.

The skeletons behind them rushed inside. No one paid any attention to the lead skeleton’s orders to line up. The lead skeleton was originally standing outside the cave to maintain order, but then he was forced into the cave by one skeleton who was too eager to get inside.

“Don’t step on me! Your feet are going to trample me to pieces, la!”

“That one in front, your arm fell!”

You Xi and Guo Juexing were the first to come out from the chaos behind them. After they smoothly escaped, they were afraid of the other skeletons targeting them, so they immediately ran behind a giant rock and stayed far away from them.

You Xi tried his best to think of any countermeasures: “Do you have anything to disguise yourself? We should get some information from the skeletons. It’s much too difficult to find the coffin by ourselves.”

“Yes, I have something.” Guo Juexing was hesitant, “But this prop can only be used by a single person… and the way it’s used is rather awkward.”

“How so?”

“This prop is called the Seal of Life.” Guo Juexing’s expression was ugly. “But for it to work successfully, we have to first capture a skeleton, then kiss it. Only then will the user become exactly like that skeleton. What we have to be careful of is that the captured skeleton has to be well hidden so it can’t be discovered by anyone else. Otherwise, it’s easy to be found out.”

The seal prop was gathering dust within Guo Juexing’s space pocket. It was useless, and the main reason was that he didn’t want to give away a kiss so easily.

You Xi immediately made a decision: “No problem, I’ll catch a skeleton for you. Don’t worry, leave it to me!”

Guo Juexing: “What?”

Wait a minute! Or wait longer–

Guo Juexing faced You Xi with the Erkang hand, 1 but the latter had already left with resolve.

Guo Juexing was depressed. He was the one providing the prop, why should he be the one who was sacrificing himself?

But as a younger brother, Guo Juexing didn’t dare to disobey his oldest brother.2

You Xi used an invisibility seal to carefully search for his prey. By now, most of the skeletons were bunched up together in twos and threes. There weren’t many by themselves, and they were all tall. You Xi finally noticed a small skeleton hiding in the corner, so he made a resolute decision, smoothly pulled out the free rope from his space pocket, and hurriedly captured him.

The little skeleton tugged at the rope in misery. His mouth was blocked by an invisible hand, makes him feel terrified.

The little skeleton that was tied up was quickly abducted by You Xi, and he was tossed in front of Guo Juexing.

Guo Juexing: “Dage! Look at this skeleton, he’s still a minor! Isn’t it inappropriate for me to kiss him, ba?”

You Xi: “……Well, ma. Eh.”

How terrible. He was simply bullying the weak and fearing the tough. He hadn’t considered that issue at all.

“Well, he’s been dead for thousands of years. How could he still be a minor? Don’t be picky!” You Xi said frankly. “Smaller is better. Other skeletons will be less defensive toward you and it will be more convenient for you to infiltrate behind enemy lines!”

Guo Juexing’s tears flowed in two lines.

The little skeleton struggled desperately, but You Xi threatened him: “Don’t shout. If you dare to make a sound, I’ll chop off your foot!”

The little skeleton was frightened into a dumb chicken, then finally stopped struggling.

Guo Juexing wiped away his tears and looked at You Xi with an expression of contempt, waiting for him to realize.

But the one who the little skeleton hated soon became Guo Juexing. When he bent over to hold the little skeleton’s head and his stubbly, bearded mouth made contact with the little skeleton’s jaw, the little skeleton fiercely resisted him.

“Bo!!!” Even if his foot was about to be chopped off, the little skeleton couldn’t stand this wretched uncle. “Help, ya!”

Luckily, Guo Juexing had successfully copied the little skeleton.

You Xi quickly tossed the little skeleton into his space pocket. He assumed that he was a minor and insignificant character, so he system didn’t give him a warning. You Xi quickly applied an invisibility seal to himself and dodged to the side.

When the other skeletons heard the noise and hurried over, they only saw Guo Skeleton hugging his knees shakily. He was curled up into a ball, secretly pitying himself.

“Xiao Ke, what happened to you just now? Suddenly shouting like that, you’ll scare dage to death!” One skeleton asked.

Guo Juexing said: “I tripped and almost fell into the ditch in front of me.”

Skeleton-dage quickly corrected him: “Were you running for your life? That’s the holy spring, ah. What kind of ditch, don’t speak nonsense!”

“I was wrong…” Guo Juexing pretended to gently wipe away his nonexistent tears. “What should we do next?”

“Ai, our house was ruined by that monster.” Skeleton-dage said. “We can only ask the saint to come forward and get rid of the monster.”

As he spoke, the group of skeletons behind him suddenly shouted: “Some players have come in!”

Skeleton-dage took Guo Juexing’s hand. “Come on, let’s go take a look.”

Guo Juexing pushed back his discomfort and weakly stretched out his slim chicken hands.

They were surrounded by a group of skeletons. Skeleton-dage pulled Guo Juexing forward, then finally squeezed into the position at the front. Guo Juexing was pleasantly surprised to see that the player they caught was no one else but Zhou Yu! He had a bruised nose and a swollen face, his ankles were encircled by heavy shackles, and his head was demurely lowered without making a sound.

They really couldn’t find the place after wearing down their iron shoes, but now it was so effortless! 3

Guo Juexing was so happy it was almost bad.

“One is missing.” The lead skeleton said. “I saw that there was another player with a handsome appearance just now, but I don’t know where he went.”

“Maybe he escaped, who knows?” The other skeleton said. “Is this one going to be killed, ma?”

The lead skeleton was lost in thought.

Guo Juexing rushed to speak: “As long as this one is still alive, the escaped player will come to rescue them sooner or later. It would be good to capture them together at that time!”

“Wow, how unscrupulous!” The skeletons pointed at him.

Guo Juexing: “……”

“Don’t say that. The little guy has a point.” The lead skeleton said. “It doesn’t make sense to kill this pig head.4 By sacrificing that thief to our saint, she won’t be too disappointed in us.”

“I didn’t maintain a good household, so this time I’m most likely going to be scolded until I’m bloody again.” The leader said. “We must redeem our worth.”

Zhou Yu was dejected and tied up without saying a word. He would normally still be considered handsome, but because the skeletons were all pale and white, they couldn’t appreciate this dark-skinned handsome man. He was reduced to being a pig head, and his treatment was terrible.

A group of skeletons guarded Zhou Yu in front and back. Guo Juexing wanted to rescue him, but he couldn’t get close.

He secretly retreated to the back of the marching army and looked forward, backward, left, and right, then whispered in a very soft voice: “Dage, are you still there, ma?”

“En.” You Xi’s voice entered Guo Juexing’s ears. “I saw Zhou Yu. I was thinking of how to save him.”

“But there seems to be a more urgent issue than saving him…” You Xi said. “My invisibility seal is about to run out. Guo-ge, can you help me?”

It’s a shame that Guo Juexing was a poor man with very few investments. Although he had a variety of props, that didn’t mean that he could make money by livestreaming. He generally didn’t use paper talismans like the invisibility seal, and he also didn’t buy very much.

“There are only 10.” Guo Juexing said helplessly.

10 seals could only maintain invisibility for 20 minutes, so it had little significance.

You Xi was going to take 5 and let Guo Juexing keep the rest, but he was solemn and made a heroic decision.