The Game with Fairies

Chapter 168

Facing the villagers turned evil beings, Li Muyang unsurprisingly died again.

Although the evil beings that the villagers had become were weak, there were too many of them.

They surged like a tidal wave, and he and Fairy Liuli were quickly overwhelmed.

“Indeed, there can’t be any real living people in this Ancient Grudge Well!”

Li Muyang sighed softly, reloading the game once more.

This time, he did not attack the sleeping villagers of the town but stood quietly with Fairy Liuli, waiting.

In the quiet town, Li Muyang and Fairy Liuli seemed to merge with the darkness, making no sound at all.

Until the first ray of sunlight pierced the darkness, the quiet town came back to life with activity.

The villagers, carrying pale yellow health bars, gradually appeared on the streets of the town.

They smiled simply and talked in gentle tones.

Seeing Li Muyang and Fairy Liuli, the outsiders, the townsfolk only gave them a few curious glances without paying too much attention.

The residents of the town, after all, were more worldly than the villagers and did not surround the two visitors.

Fairy Liuli frowned, watching the villagers without letting her guard down.

Li Muyang, on the other hand, released his flying sword, attacking the couple still sleeping in the nearby house.

Yet, the same couple that had transformed into grotesque evil beings when attacked the previous night now lay on the bed, unaware as they were ground to pieces by the Dharma-Annihilation Wheel under the sunlight.

“...I see. They are living people during the day, but at night they turn into evil beings.”

At that moment, Li Muyang finally grasped the nature of this world.

“But if they are killed during the day, will the corpses still turn into evil beings at night?”

Under Fairy Liuli’s astonished gaze, Li Muyang took her and fled the town, avoiding the denunciation and pursuit of the villagers.

Later, wandering in the wilderness, they waited for nightfall before returning to the town.

Outside the courtyard of the couple, the townsfolk had dispersed, leaving only two bodies covered with white cloths lying quietly in the courtyard.

A yellow dog tied next to the bodies didn’t dare to make any noise as Li Muyang, a stranger, approached.

All the livestock in the town became deathly silent at night, even the noisiest chickens and ducks maintained their silence.

Li Muyang stood in the shadows, watching the sunset on the horizon gradually fade until darkness completely engulfed the world.

Suddenly, a cold breeze swept through, and the two bodies covered with white cloths in the courtyard slowly stood up.

But now, they had turned into grotesque evil beings, no longer resembling living people.

Under the astonished gaze of Li Muyang and Fairy Liuli, these two evil beings, with stiff movements, walked towards the wilderness outside the town and disappeared into the darkness.

During the day, they are ordinary people living peaceful and good lives.

Yet at night, they mutate into malevolent beings, attacking any living person who comes near.

These malevolent beings have no idea that they are such. They still think they are alive, and when they see their friends and family killed and their bodies disappearing, they even think of reporting it to the authorities.

All these things, how different are they from the mortals of the outside world?

To Li Muyang at this moment, a group of malevolent beings unaware of their own nature seemed to evoke a sense of black terror and inexplicable horror.

Upon hearing Li Muyang’s explanation, Fairy Liuli’s eyes trembled slightly: “Is this world... so terrifying?!”

Having fought side by side with Li Muyang on multiple occasions and witnessed his seemingly prophetic abilities time and again, Fairy Liuli clearly had no doubt about Li Muyang’s words.

Even without any evidence from Li Muyang, she already believed him.

“This Ancient Grudge Well is indeed the source of evil spirits and the nest of calamity...”

Fairy Liuli looked back at the small town, her eyes reflecting a profound complexity.

A group of beings who are malevolent yet consider themselves ordinary people, living life like everyone else, such a world is too eerie and unsettling.

Fairy Liuli murmured to herself: “Why would General Zhong hide in such a world? Could it be that the corruption of the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s court is so severe that he would rather hide in such an evil world than stay?”

Li Muyang narrowed his eyes, looking at the mountains ahead, and said: “Perhaps all this will only become clear after we meet General Zhong.”

He was now curious about what the game ‘The Call of the Mountains’ was really about.

And how did General Zhong manage to enter the Ancient Grudge Well?

Li Muyang had the guidance of his blood pupils, but what about General Zhong? How did he get in?

The games provided by the system so far have been quite similar in essence.

To save or to prevent some impending disaster.

Previous games had been like this.

The mystery of Loushan City to save Fairy Liuli, to stop the Blood Demon Sect from causing harm, Deadly Weed to save Xiao Yecao, Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record to save the Dragon Deity Fairy... so what does The Call of the Mountains aim to save or prevent?

It surely can’t be about saving the suffering beings in the darkness...

It’s not that Li Muyang doubts the system’s capabilities, but so far, the system doesn’t seem to have the ability to massively interfere with and rewrite reality.

The system’s interference with reality all relies on Li Muyang as a medium.

What Li Muyang can’t do, the system can’t do either.

And Li Muyang’s game character card, Constable Wuming, may be good at killing evil gods, but saving beings?

...Let’s stick to discussing killing evil gods.