I Became a God in a Horror Game (Unlimited)
Chapter 362

“If we can’t borrow Yin energy here, can we go back to the tomb to borrow it? After all, you are a descendant of the Zombie Daoist,” Mu Sicheng asked, looking up.

Bai Liu shook his head. “It’s best not to. The Zombie Daoist is currently at a critical moment for gathering Yin energy. If I were to cast a spell there to borrow Yin energy for profit, it wouldn’t be borrowing; it would be stealing, and I would make an enemy.”

“Then are we going to give up on this mission?” Mu Sicheng couldn’t swallow his frustration, his expression so gloomy that water seemed to be dripping out of it.

As he spoke, Mu Sicheng looked up at Bai Liu, then paused.

Although Bai Liu’s mission was snatched away, he wore a faint smile that Mu Sicheng couldn’t quite understand. It was a smile that didn’t reach his lips or his eyes, yet somehow conveyed a sense of ease and danger.

“No need.” Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng with a smile, “To wait until now to steal, you really have some patience.”

Mu Sicheng hesitated for a moment, staring at Bai Liu’s expression, which seemed to indicate he had anticipated this. He asked cautiously, “You’re not… deliberately pushing Kong Xuyang and Yang Zhi to desperation, then luring them to steal your task, are you?”

Bai Liu blinked innocently. “How could that be? How could I have thought someone would be so malicious as to steal someone else’s task?”

Mu Sicheng: “…”

In any case, he couldn’t understand Bai Liu’s every move. He couldn’t tell if Bai Liu was being intentional or just playing dumb.

“Then, do you still want to do this task?” Mu Sicheng frowned. “But at this point, according to your reasoning, it can’t be done anymore.”

“No, it can still be done.” Bai Liu jumped two steps to the side, gesturing for Mu Sicheng to look down at his feet.

Mu Sicheng raised his camera and pointed it down. The deep green glowing screen illuminated the ground beneath him, revealing seven neatly arranged rectangular deep pits.

These pits were uniform in size, and directly in front stood a marble tombstone engraved with black-and-white photographs of the seven elderly men from the temple.

Mu Sicheng was so shocked he nearly stepped into a pit, wobbling as he held the camera and took several steps back, his heart racing as he asked, “This is… the graves that those seven elderly men dug but didn’t have time to bury?”

Bai Liu nodded. “Kong Xuyang borrowed the Yin energy from my other ancestors buried here, but he hasn’t borrowed from these seven.”

“Because these seven haven’t been buried yet!” Mu Sicheng reacted quickly this time, joyfully elbowing Bai Liu and raising an eyebrow. “Not bad, Bai Liu, your mind works pretty fast. Are you planning to use the Yin energy from these seven after they’re buried to make a profit?”

Bai Liu subtly dodged Mu Sicheng’s elbow and smiled in response. “That’s indeed my plan.”

“But Kong Xuyang hasn’t completely ruled out the Yin energy of these seven elderly men; he hasn’t left me much room to maneuver.” Bai Liu turned to look at the empty graves of the seven elderly men. “According to the normal funeral procedures with a high probability of no accidents, the burial should be seven days after death, but the seventh day after death….”

“But once the seventh day after death arrives, the Daoist Zombie will go berserk!” Mu Sicheng thought of this point too, his expression darkening. “Damn it, what do we do?”

“Since the normal funeral procedures won’t work, we’ll have to take an abnormal approach.” Bai Liu glanced up at the sky. “As soon as dawn breaks, we’ll return to the village and bring the coffin over for an early burial.”

Just the thought of returning to the village made Mu Sicheng swallow hard. “…What do we do until dawn?”

“It’s a dark and windy night, a good time to dig graves.” Bai Liu smiled lightly, patting Mu Sicheng on the shoulder as he walked ahead. “Let’s go see which grave we want to dig.”

Even though Mu Sicheng was physically fit and had been exercising for years, hearing Bai Liu say this made his legs feel a bit weak. On one hand, he was exhausted from running all night; on the other hand…

He glanced at the eerie, terrifying mounds of graves all around the mountain, took a deep breath, raised his camera, and followed with a tragic expression that suggested he was going to his doom.

“Bai Liu, please walk slower. What if you step on something…”

On the other side.

Kong Xuyang squatted beside Yang Zhi’s shoulder, his brow furrowed as he asked, “You can see so much from Bai Liu’s second memory overlap?”

“Yeah.” Yang Zhi smiled wryly. “Bai Liu’s memories are incredibly complex, especially the overlapping parts. With two layers of memories overlapping, many places appear blurry and fragmented.”

“All I know is that Bai Liu’s second memory overlap simply erased the existence of the ghost that looked like Spades.”

“Now, the current Bai Liu doesn’t remember encountering such a strange entity when he was eighteen. His memories should be of studying normally, taking the college entrance exam, and then going to university.”

Kong Xuyang was increasingly puzzled.

“So, that is to say, there’s a top-tier player who can modify and overlap memories. Additionally, they spent a lot of effort just to make Bai Liu forget that imaginary friend of his, who you say looks exactly like Spades?”

Yang Zhi nodded.

“That’s just too strange…” Kong Xuyang frowned and clicked his tongue. “What kind of god-tier player has the time to waste on a dimwit who can only score around three hundred on a high school exam?”

But Kong Xuyang didn’t dwell on this question for long; he eagerly pressed on, “What about Bai Liu’s third memory overlap?!”

“I haven’t fully processed Bai Liu’s third memory overlap yet; I can only see some general ideas.”

“This memory overlap happened shortly after Bai Liu graduated from university and just started working.” Yang Zhi closed his eyes, clenched his fists, and sweated as he strained to recall. “…About two years ago.”

“It seems Bai Liu encountered… some very unfortunate events, and his memories are a complete mess… He seems to have been going around the hospital.” Yang Zhi tightly shut his eyes, seemingly immersed in Bai Liu’s memory world. His chest heaved violently as sweat dripped from his chin.

“There was a strong smell of disinfectant everywhere. Bai Liu seemed to be sitting outside the hospital room on a bench, head lowered, his hands stained with blood. His emotions were very…”

Yang Zhi’s breathing became noticeably rapid, his hands trembling uncontrollably, his face alternating between pale and flushed as he described in a tone that suggested he was about to retch, “…intense.”

Kong Xuyang chuckled as he stroked his chin. “Two years ago? That was when I was just starting the preseason, winning all the way to the challenge matches.”

“Looking at it this way, while Bai Liu was having the worst time, I was doing quite well.”

“Perhaps that’s the difference between successful people and failures.” Kong Xuyang sighed hypocritically, spreading his hands.

Yang Zhi was completely absorbed in Bai Liu’s memories, offering no response to Kong Xuyang.

He felt as if he had fallen into a lake with a frozen surface. He could only vaguely hear Kong Xuyang’s self-satisfied voice, unable to think about the meaning of those sounds.

In his memories, Bai Liu’s cold emotions, like icy water, surged toward Yang Zhi’s limbs, the impact too strong for him to move. It was as if he were sinking underwater with his eyes open, nearly suffocating.

Yang Zhi slowly descended into the hospital corridor, a dimly lit passage bustling with people. Bai Liu sat motionless on a long bench at the end of the hall, his hands clasped against his lowered head, orange juice dripping from the ends of his hair, and at his feet lay a bag of squashed oranges.

Bai Liu’s white shirt and shoes were splattered with blood, and a bloodied baseball bat leaned against the chair beside him.

The noisy voices seemed to be separated by some invisible noise-canceling barrier, and Yang Zhi could only hear some faint conversations.

“…It’s so tragic; she was directly hit by a motorcycle.”

“Seems like she was a kindergarten teacher…”

“A kindergarten teacher? Is this about the incident where a group of speeders crashed into a kindergarten today?!”

“You must be mistaken; that’s not what happened. It was a kindergarten teacher who discovered a group of speeders surrounding someone on her way home from work. She bravely tried to save them but was hit and the force threw her several meters away. They even say, her intestines were exposed…”

“She was sent to the emergency room in the afternoon, and she still hasn’t come out…”

Yang Zhi saw Bai Liu’s hand, which was resting against his head, slowly clench to the point where his knuckles turned white.

The intense, nauseating emotion emanating from Bai Liu made Yang Zhi feel dizzy again, and the continuous chatter from the people nearby made him feel a strange sense of familiarity.

Speedsters, kindergarten, a crime that seemed to have happened but was erased…

Yang Zhi remembered.

He felt as if a block of his memory that had been overlapped was forcibly opened under Bai Liu’s intense emotional impact.

There seemed to be such an incident.

…Which team was it again? Yang Zhi still couldn’t quite recall.

They have targeted too many people, and they had to erase all traces of the crime in reality after each one. In the end, remembering the victim’s face was a very frustrating task. But they would also take photos to document the victims’ plight to check their achievements, and to send to rival teams, achieving the purpose of emotional interference.

However, what was strange was that there were no records left of the kindergarten teacher they had attacked.

Yang Zhi finally remembered; his memory had also been modified.

But he couldn’t recall who did it. Now, these modified memories finally unfolded completely under the resonance of Bai Liu’s memories.

Yang Zhi slowly looked at Bai Liu.

They had once attacked Bai Liu, along with this kindergarten teacher, as key figures closely linked to a certain team’s tactician.

Kong Xuyang liked to prepare multiple plans for ambushes, so he only sent the kindergarten teacher’s photo to the opposing team’s strategist, saying they were going to attack this woman, but in reality, Bai Liu, who was only 22, was also on the attack list.

It was a pretty unsuccessful attack.

That woman was outrageous; on the surface, she was a kindergarten teacher, but her combat ability and physical strength were extraordinary. She directly opened a window, and jumped down from the second floor.

Like a scene from an action movie, she casually grabbed a baseball bat from the wall and decisively took on the group of speeders.

They returned empty-handed and had to pay points to erase the attack on the kindergarten.

At that time, Kong Xuyang was already on the field, but fortunately, he had prepared a backup plan for them in advance – to attack Bai Liu.

They turned around to surround Bai Liu, but that woman was too perceptive.

She sensed who they were about to attack and directly followed them on an electric bike, speeding to intercept.

The electric bike was so fast that it felt like it was racing against the motorcycles, mainly because she was holding a baseball bat in front of her, and no one dared to risk their life to run in front of her.

But they had already prepared people for an ambush on Bai Liu’s side, so no matter how fast they ran here, they’d still succeed over there.

At the time that Bai Liu was leaving work with a bag of oranges, walking to a dark, secluded alley corner, the people who’d been waiting to ambush him were already rushing from behind.

There were more than a dozen cars, each weighing several hundred kilograms. Any one of them could crush Bai Liu into a pool of meat paste.

When the vehicles revved up and charged forward, those rushing to Bai Liu were still more than ten meters away from him. At this distance, it was too late to remind, rescue or support him. The matter was already a foregone conclusion.

But that woman was incredibly fierce.

To protect Bai Liu, she didn’t hesitate at all, directly speeding forward on her electric bike, swerving in front of Bai Liu from the side. She collided with the motorcycle behind Bai Liu and was knocked away, flying.

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