Chapter 9 - Jin's Dagger

Translated by: Jayre & Fleur

“He isn’t here! You dare lie to me?!” At that moment, the boss’ face became terrifying, her ice cold fingers once again clasping around Yu Su’s neck.

Her strength was great and she lifted Yu Su up into the air with just one hand. But in the next second, her hand slackened suddenly.

Yu Su fell to the ground, covering her sore neck. Coughing heavily, she said with some difficulty: "I didn't lie to you, he really is in this room."

Mid-sentence, both Wang San and Li Yi had came over.

Not daring to delay, Yu Su turned her head, pointing to a certain direction and shouted to the lady boss: "He had always been there, but you just never managed to find him!"

The boss’ gaze followed her finger, and landed on the wedding photo hanging on the wall.

In the photo, the bride smiled in sweet happiness, yet the groom had a forced smile on his face. But there was suddenly a change-

The raised ends of the mouth tilted downwards, the smiling eyes shot wide open - his expression started to change into a panicked look. With a slight rustle, he turned into a shadow and came out of the photo!

The shadow did not dare to hesitate for a single moment and like a gust of wind, he dashed over to the door.

But he had yet to reach the door when Wang San swept a leg towards his direction, kicking him away and back into the room.

The boss let out a furious howl and rushed up quickly.

Cha Nan’s physique was much bigger than the boss and he even had the kitchen knife in his hand, yet he was seemingly afraid of her. When the boss grabbed him, he did not resist and only trembled in her grip.

Wang San walked over to Yu Su and helped her up. “Are you okay?” He asked.

Yu Su nodded, her gaze fixed on the scene, only to see the boss using both her hands to grab Cha Nan’s neck. After furiously letting out a howl, the boss abruptly jerked her head forward and ferociously bit down on his arm.

Cha Nan let out a scream filled with pain and despair. Compared to those from humans, it was far more ear-piercing and unpleasantly harsh to listen to.

The boss changed her target and bit down on his neck. After chewing it a while, she yet again buried her head to take another bite.

The screams from Cha Nan closely followed.

“Ghosts and humans are different, he cannot die until the very last bite. Now, the pain he is experiencing is a hundred times more painful than Wang Yan.” Wang San gazed at the scene and whispered to Yu Su.

“Why is he so afraid of the boss?” Yu Su asked.

“The boss’ resentment is much stronger than his, of course he will be afraid.”

At this moment, Zhuang Han ran in heavily. Taking in the entire scene, he panted: “I could hear everything outside, the screams sounded terrible!”

Li Yi had all along been standing at the doorway. After watching Zhuang Han coming in, she then followed behind and took a few steps in. She curiously asked Yu Su: “How did you know Cha Nan was hiding in the photo?”

Yu Su shrugged: “A woman’s sixth sense.”

The task was coming to an end already, she did not wish to raise her voice to be heard over Cha Nan’s screams.

In actuality, how she found out Cha Nan was hiding in the wedding photo was because she and Wang San had closely followed the male into the room, yet they could not find even a single trace of him.

But she managed to notice that the expression of the groom in the wedding photo was slightly different compared to the previous time she saw him.

She deliberately said the sentence, “He should be hiding in here.” in the room and noticed the groom’s facial expression changing slightly.

It had to be said that him hiding in the photo was a smart move. The boss had been searching everywhere for him every night, and even ran to town to listen for his movements from door to door, yet she never realised that Cha Nan was actually in a place where she could see at a glance.

This was what he had understood from the boss’ mentality - a mother who lost her daughter would not usually enter her daughter’s room so as to not disturb anything.

The most dangerous place had become the safest place.

Just like this, Cha Nan was eaten by the boss one bite after another bite. His screaming had been going on for more than ten minutes, at this rate, even if there was only a head left, he would not stop screaming.

The screams caused Yu Su’s head to ache, and even blocking her ears was of no use.

It was only until the boss gnawed away at his head like an apple that the unpleasant screams finally stopped.

When the last bite from the head was swallowed by the boss, the scene in front of Yu Su blurred and in a blink of an eye, it changed.

She saw her familiar bedroom, sitting in front of her laptop, with the laptop playing the drama she was watching before she entered the game.

And at the same moment, rules regarding the “Death Game APP” poured into her mind.

Yu Su froze for a moment, before recovering.

She finally understood the rules of the game. Wang San did not lie to her, but he did indeed hide a lot from her.

The phone APP “Death Game” would issue players any tasks at any time, and if one died in the game, they would also die in real life.

The death in real life would happen 24 hours after exiting the game. Yu Su felt that this may possibly be the time the system gave for the players to take revenge and settle whatever they need to before their deaths.

After completing a task, there would be a generous reward. The task’s reward would require the players to open the APP to claim.

The reward contained attribute points and these points could be used to improve players’ physical appearance, or to enhance their sight and hearing.

Each time a task was completed, there would be a break. The break for the first task is ten days, after which the time given would double. After the fifth task, the time given for a break would be fixed at two hundred days.

Aside from these basic rules, there was a part that was more dangerous - those who do not qualify for the game could seize the qualification from players in real life.

The way to seize was to uninstall the app on the player's phone or to completely damage the player's phone. The moment of uninstallation or damage, the game would appear on the respective snatcher’s phone.

Successful snatchers could also inherit half of the attribute points obtained by the previous player in the previous mission.

As for the players who had been robbed, they had only 24 hours to seize the game back. Those who had not successfully re-seize it after 24 hours would die.

In addition, the game could invite other players to join together. After the APP task release, fill in the game code of the other party in the invitation option, with up to three players at one time able to be invited.

Because game codes were required, it was obviously only possible to invite people who had already obtained game rights and who knew each other.

Yu Su digested these rules carefully, and thought: Wang San reminded her to hide her identity in reality, this was obviously very important.

There were no moral or legal issues mentioned in the rules of the game, so if a player wanted to kill other players in the game, he could do it anytime he wanted.

But don’t forget that those who died in the game had 24 hours to live after returning to reality. As long as they managed to find the person who hurt them during this time to take revenge, this way was also very dangerous for those who chose to go down this path.

In the information age, as long as there was a person's basic information, it was very easy to get people to each other. It's even simpler if one had a relation with the police.

Regarding the fact that players could be robbed of the game's qualifications by others, Yu Su felt that she did not have to worry about it for now.

There was no one who knew she was qualified for the game, so as long as she did not tell anyone, there would be no problem.

Having said that, who in their right mind would willingly enter this deadly game?

Yu Su laughed, collected her thoughts and picked up her phone to open the APP.

The rules said that after completing the task, one could receive rewards in the APP, and she had to see what she got.

Opening the app, the black loading interface appeared first, with two blood red words “Death Game”. It did not look scary, but a little scum-made.

It only took two seconds to load the interface, and what came into sight immediately was the APP homepage.

At the top of the homepage was a banner that showed a countdown: 09 days, 23 hours, 56 minutes, 36 seconds, and the number of seconds was continuously decreasing.

This was the time counting down to when Yu Su will receive the next mission, with roughly ten days remaining.

The homepage was divided into four sections. The first is "Information", the second is "Experience", the third is "Communication", and the fourth is "Mine".

Yu Su first opened the fourth section and entered the sub-page.

The subpage was also separated into different parts, with options for attributes, rewards, tasks, and friends. Yu Su looked at the word "Friends" and couldn't help but ridiculed it. How could this be made like a dating software?

There was a red number "3" behind the reward option, which probably meant that she had received three rewards. She couldn't wait to open them, so she entered the mailbox-like interface.

The three unread emails are all titled "Player Mission Rewards".

The description in the first email was: In Player Yu Su’s performance of this game, she received 5 attributes points.

There was a "Collect" button right below. Yu Su clicked it and received a prompt: Will player please assign the attribute points in 【Mine - Attribute】.

She clicked on the second email again and when she saw the description, her eyebrows shot up in surprise.

The reward in this email turned out to be RMB, and it was up to five figures!

Yu Su clicked the withdrawal button in disbelief. After a few seconds, a bank text message popped up, telling Yu Su that the bank card under her name received a remittance of 25,435 yuan.

However, it could be said that this was the money received with her life on the line. Thinking about it, this money cannot be considered a lot.

Yu Su opened a third email with some expectation, to see: Player Yu Su entered the game for the first time and performed well, rewarding novice item box*1.

What is this? Yu Su clicked to collect the item, and an animation of opening a box popped up in the interface, just like those of ordinary mobile games.

After the animation ended, a golden dagger appeared in the center of the screen.

Without waiting for Yu Su to click anything, the dagger disappeared suddenly. The next second, it appeared on the table in front of Yu Su out of thin air.

[【Jin’s Dagger】. It is rumored that hundred of years ago, there was a general named Jin Ji who caused the deaths of tens of thousands of soldiers due to the enemy’s tricks, amongst them more than 10,000 of them were buried alive under the hills. Although he was rescued by several lieutenants, he was filled with regrets. In the end, he kneeled down facing the hills and killed himself with the dagger he carried.

Jin’s remorse for his tens of thousands of soldiers and his hatred of his enemies did not disperse after his death. His soul remained attached to the dagger, and he refused to leave for hundreds of years…]

This narration directly entered Yu Su's mind, the dagger seemed to be very powerful.

Yu Su stretched out her hand to pick it up, only to feel a bone-piercing cold start instantly from her fingertips piercing straight into her limbs, and it was so cold that even her heart shivered.

She quickly threw it back on the table and looked at it carefully.

The dagger was very beautiful, with delicate and complicated patterns on the scabbard, with the handle crescent-shaped. As for the blade... she piled a few pieces of toilet paper in her hand before pulling out the knife, but found that no matter how much strength she used, she could not pull it out.

So how on earth does one use this dagger?

Yu Su used the computer to Baidu for a while, but didn't even mention the general Jin, even a single piece of information on the death game APP could not be found.

(T/N: Baidu is China’s search engine)

There was no choice, she had to wrap the dagger up with a cloth and leave it alone for now.

Then, she clicked on the other options on the APP.

In fact, the previous three sections of “Information”, “Experience” and “Communication” could be collectively referred to as the “Forum”. But under “Information”, there was different information about missions that were released by players who had completed them, including various mysterious uncanny events that had occurred in reality.

In “Experience”, some players wrote down the tasks they have experienced before. In the exchange, it was just some messy chats.

These three categories had one thing in common - all players were anonymous, and no one talked about their real life situation.

After checking through the APP, Yu Su had nothing to do anyway, so she spent the rest of the day scrolling through social media at home.

At night, she dreamed about the first task.

It turned out that that night, after hacking Wang Yan to death, Cha Nan finally mostly woke up from his drunken state. Although he had already discussed with Xiao San the way to secretly get rid of Wang Yan, what they discussed was how to create a car accident.

This type of doing where he hacked his wife to death with his own hands, if he was sober, no matter how vicious he was he would never do it. What's more, now that this had already happened, even if he did not die, he would have to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Cha Nan wanted to seek help from Xiao San and hoped she could tell him what to do, but Xiao San did not even dare to open the door and kept calling him a terrifying devil, and to get lost and die.

Under extreme fear and despair, Cha Nan really committed suicide in the bedroom.

When the police arrived, the boss had also returned to the hotel. After understanding the situation, she calmly stated that the murderers were dead and she would no longer pursue the matter.

The police quickly closed the case and the boss held a funeral for her daughter. As a good friend of Wang Yan, if Xiao San did not go she would not be able to explain her absence. But she did not know that the boss lady already resented her in the heart.

The boss did not know that she was Xiaosan, but she knew that when her daughter Wang Yan knocked on the door for help that night, Xiaosan did not open the door.

Afterwards, the boss put sleeping pills in Xiaosan’s food and pretended to go crazy to drive away all other guests, and everything else was already what had been seen.

Xiao San screamed and wailed when she was suspended from the big iron pan, crying and begging for mercy many times.

After taking revenge, the boss who lost her daughter was already irreparable. With the thought of looking for Cha Nan for revenge even if she became a ghost after death, she took pills quietly in the room and committed suicide.

When Yu Su woke up, the sky was already bright. She recalled the dream and sighed.

At this time, the ringtone of her phone suddenly rang, leaving her slightly frozen.

She reached out for the phone under the pillow and saw that her only good friend in this city, Lin Xiao An, was calling.

It was only then Yu Su remembered that before she entered the game, she seemed to have an appointment to go shopping with Lin Xiao An today?

Yu Su knocked her head, cleared her throat, and pressed the answer key: "Hey, Xiao An."

"Yubaibai, have you left your house?" Lin Xiao An's energetic voice came.

(T/N: 鱼摆摆 is Yu Su’s nickname from Xiao An. If there is any better conversion than Fish Swing, please do suggest them…)

She was from Sichuan. After the two became close, she had always used “Yubaibai” in her dialect to address Yu Su.

When Yu Su heard her voice, she finally had some feeling of returning to reality.

The two agreed to meet on the first floor of the most famous shopping mall on Chunxi Pedestrian Street. Yu Su quickly got up to wash up, and put on a comfortable and fitting dress.

Thinking of the extra money in her bank card, she felt that she could have a lot of fun today.

But unexpectedly, when she walked into the first floor of the mall, a figure fell rapidly from high altitude and smashed in front of her.

Blood splattered, and a splash of blood bloomed on her white dress.

The bloody body was the man who first ran into the rain and died in front of everyone.

The people around screamed wildly, running away as fast as if they saw the great scourge, and even avoided Yu Su who was splattered with blood.

Yu Su sighed helplessly, and fished out her phone to look at it. It happened to be the time when she finished the game yesterday, it really was 24 hours.

"What the hell? Yubaibai, are you okay?!"

Lin Xiao An's voice came from the left side. When Yu Su turned her head, she had already rushed over and fetched tissue paper from her handbag, while anxiously saying: "Quickly wipe! How can you encounter such a thing, it's really too unlucky!"

On the other hand, Yu Su was very calm. After wiping the blood off her face, they went to the mall together to buy a new dress.

When the two came out, the area had already been cordoned off. Although the body was covered with a piece of white cloth, there were many people taking pictures, and some were even live broadcasting.

Yu Su shook her head silently, some people really just...

Lin Xiao An took Yu Su's arm and walked around from the side. But halfway through, she suddenly shouted to someone in the crowd: "Police officer, what a coincidence?"

Yu Su turned her head and was a little stunned - why did the man in a police uniform with a serious face look like Wang San ? !

It cannot be this coincidental, right?

At this time, the other party turned his head and looked towards them. He met Yu Su’s eyes and raised his eyebrows, gaze shifting towards Lin Xiao An and nodded expressionlessly.

Yu Su thought: Whether he looked like him or not, it is better to pretend not to know him now. He obviously thinks so too.

She turned her head and said to Lin Xiao An: "I heard that the snack stall in front is delicious. Let's go get some food first?"

Lin Xiao An nodded and smiled while pulling her: "Did you see the policeman just now? The community I lived in last time had a murder case, he was the one who took people to settle the case and even asked me some questions! Isn’t he super handsome!"

Yu Su casually “En”, but inwardly thought that the dude was petty. There were so many rules but he only shared two lines with her. No matter how handsome he was, she would still turn her nose up at him!

The author has something to say:

Yu Su: No matter how handsome, I will turn my nose up at him!

Feng Ting: How sweet.

Because the update is too late, this fat chapter is packed full with 5,000 words~

The translator has something to say:

Because this chapter is packed full with 5,000 words, this poor first time translator could barely see the end QAQ