I Became a God in a Horror Game

Bai Liu stroked his chin and thought momentarily, “This isn’t good, it’s a crime of bigamy.”

Mu Sicheng was furious, “You only thought of this?! Do you know how much effort it took me to escape? I was forced to bow to heaven and earth [1] with them!”

Bai Liu’s eyes indicated, “Did you get these injuries when you escaped and got beaten?”

“Not only that.” Mu Sicheng was furious when he said this, “I had almost escaped but when I turned around, I saw you being captured and marrying the more than 30 brides. I panicked and turned back to save you.”

Mu Sicheng became angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He raised his hand and slammed the wall viciously. “In the end, what I fucking rescued was a ghost. It bit me twice when I was crossing the ghost bridge with it. I couldn’t hold my breath, then almost fell off the paper ghost bridge and drowned!”

Bai Liu took a quick look and found that there were indeed two teeth marks and blood stains on Mu Sicheng’s shoulder.

“Didn’t you use the candlestick to shine on the other person?” Bai Liu asked.

Mu Sicheng glanced at Bai Liu with resentment: “When I was getting married, all my belongings were confiscated and the candlesticks were also taken away.”

“Although the person you saved wasn’t me.” Bai Liu smiled tactfully, “It wasn’t very wise to turn around and save someone during that situation but thank you anyway.”

Why… did he feel like Bai Liu was implying he was stupid…

Mu Sicheng muttered, “… What if it was you? If you die, I’ll be alone in this place. I don’t know how to get out.”

Bai Liu glanced at Mu Sicheng out of the corner of his eye, “You think you have to rely on me to get out, which means that you think I am better at handling this kind of situation than you. Then why do you think I will be trapped when you can get out?”

Mu Sicheng, “…”

Damn, yeah!

Mu Sicheng scratched his face in annoyance. “This is the first time I’ve encountered such a situation. I was scared stupid…”

“It’s okay. The first time is new, the second time is familiar. You will be able to handle it if you go again.” Bai Liu walked in holding the candlestick.

Mu Sicheng was stunned for a moment and followed, “… Bai Liu, what do you mean?! You are not going to…”

Bai Liu hummed calmly, “I want to go again.”

Mu Sicheng collapsed. He hurriedly stopped Bai Liu who was walking forward and said, “I told you there are a lot of ghosts over there. It’s very dangerous. Why are you going there?!”

Bai Liu held up the candlestick and looked at Mu Sicheng quietly, “Because I want to find Mu Sicheng.”

Mu Sicheng was startled, “What finding Mu Sicheng? I’m right here…”

Mu Sicheng’s unfinished words were paused in Bai Liu’s calm gaze.

The facial features on his face gradually flattened and disappeared, his skin turned pale blue, and the sound he made became buzzing and dull as if someone was talking underwater.

The faint candlelight flickered back and forth between “Mu Sicheng” and Bai Liu.

The candlelight cast two shadows on the wall. Bai Liu’s shadow was clearly visible, but Mu Sicheng’s shadow was layered and blurry, with many double shadows flashing as if it would disappear at any time.

“How could this happen…” Mu Sicheng blankly touched his face, which only had vague outlines of his facial features, “Am I a ghost? But I have a shadow…”

Bai Liu held the candlestick close to Mu Sicheng, turned his wrist upward and placed it in front of Mu Sicheng. Mu Sicheng’s nose twitched twice subconsciously. He seemed to smell the scent of a living person on Bai Liu and couldn’t help but inhale twice.

As the vitality from Bai Liu entered Mu Sicheng’s nostrils, the originally blurred features on Mu Sicheng’s face became clear again.

Mu Sicheng realized what he was doing only after he had sucked the life out of Bai Liu. He froze momentarily and took two steps back in panic: “Don’t come over! I really am a ghost. I was just sucking the life out of you…”

Bai Liu pulled down his clothes to cover his wrists. He looked calmly at Mu Sicheng across from him who was going crazy, “You are not a ghost but you are about to become one.”

“You are a disembodied soul.”

Mu Sicheng was stunned, “A disembodied… soul?”

Bai Liu hummed, “In short, your body was severely damaged due to certain circumstances. It may be that you were taken away and used as a substitute, or you may be on the verge of death, causing your soul to leave your body and wander around.”

“If there is no way to get your soul back to your body before we return to the world of the living at midnight then your soul will really remain on the road to the underworld and become a ghost in this underground tomb.”

Bai Liu looked down at the time on his phone, “If my phone isn’t broken then it should already be five in the afternoon and there are still seven hours left.”

After Mu Sicheng moved away from Bai Liu, his facial features began to disappear again and his voice became muffled once more, “Seven hours should be enough.”

Bai Liu moved closer to Mu Sicheng again, stretched out his hand and let Mu Sicheng absorb some of the vitality on the back of his hand.

After being inhaled once more, Bai Liu’s face turned pale: “Seven hours is the most optimistic scenario.”

“You are now in a state where you are about to turn into a ghost and need to absorb the vitality of living people to maintain your soul form. There is only one possibility—” Bai Liu glanced at Mu Sicheng, “—that is, your body is about to die.”

Mu Sicheng took two steps back and raised his hand to cover his eyes. He actually began to feel that the light from the candlestick in Bai Liu’s hand was harsh. He looked at his hand blocking his eyes and felt a chill down his spine.

He didn’t know when his hands became like those of the spirits, crooked and upside down, pale and creepy, and water dripping down.

Bai Liu raised the candlestick and shone it towards Mu Sicheng, whose eyes had turned bloodshot. “The most urgent thing is to help you find your body, otherwise my vitality won’t be able to keep your soul form for long.”

Mu Sicheng was silent for a while, then asked, “What would happen to me if I can’t return before my body perishes?”

Bai Liu glanced at Mu Sicheng and said, “You will die.”

“Then you will become like those ghosts, gradually forgetting you were once human; your human form would be neither mortal nor ghost with your limbs inversed, unable to distinguish between yin and yang. Your only motive in the world would be to look for a substitute, becoming an accomplice to the tiger.”

“But I can use my vitality to keep your soul alive. I just need to find your body before that.”

Bai Liu stretched out his wrist and handed it to Mu Sicheng so that he could absorb the vitality.

Mu Sicheng stood in the darkness without saying a word, and did not come up to absorb Bai Liu’s energy, but he did not leave either.

Bai Liu did not take back his hand, but kept it raised calmly, waiting for Mu Sicheng to speak.

“What will happen to you if I have sucked all your vitality away and haven’t found my own body yet?” Mu Sicheng finally spoke, his voice a little hoarse this time.

Bai Liu calmly replied, “Living people without the energy of life are just like walking corpses. I will become a zombie.”

Mu Sicheng pursed his lips and took two steps back as if he were preparing to escape from Bai Liu.

Bai Liu laughed as if he was seeing something strange. He asked Mu Sicheng with interest, “Why do you think I would give up all my vitality and turn into a zombie for you?”

“I will only protect you under the premise of ensuring my safety. I protect you because you are useful. You are one of the few living people in Yinshan Village and you obey me very well. You are more valuable alive than dead.”

Mu Sicheng took another step back, his voice clearly wavering, “… You are so capable, you can handle these things better by yourself, right?”

Bai Liu took a step forward holding the candlestick, then extending his hand towards Mu Sicheng’s face, whose features were gradually disappearing, and said in a light voice, “Didn’t the tomb robber named Kong Xuyang say that we are bound teammates?”

“If this Yinshan Village is divided into fixed teams and various camps, is there some kind of competition going on here?”

“Suppose this is a competition…” Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Mu Sicheng who was hiding in the shadows, “Then before the competition started, I chose you as my teammate at that time; I believe in my choice so you should be valuable and capable of helping me win the competition.”

“I don’t like losing, so I need you to be alive.”

“You now have two choices. The first is to obey me directly and absorb the vitality I give you to preserve your soul form. The second choice is to escape and find a place to die. I will capture you and force-feed you vitality to keep you alive.”

Bai Liu took a step forward with his wrist extended out, staring at Mu Sicheng stoically, “Which one do you choose?”

This time Mu Sicheng did not retreat.

After a long time, Mu Sicheng’s face showed some features. With a ferocious and forbearing look, he moved closer to Bai Liu’s wrist, clenched his fist and took a breath.

Bai Liu’s face turned even paler. He retracted his cold wrist, rubbing it before looking at Mu Sicheng and smiling, “Thank you for your cooperation, teammate.”

Mu Sicheng was about to take a deep breath but when he realized that he was just a soul and couldn’t breathe, he stopped in frustration, “… How long can I absorb your vitality before you turn into a zombie?”

Bai Liu thought for a while and said, “I should be able to hold out for more than an hour. After all, I am a young, strong man. My Yang energy is still sufficient.”

Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu’s thin shoulders and repeated doubtfully, “Young, strong man?”

Bai Liu smiled and turned around, “Any questions?”

Mu Sicheng paused before shaking his head quickly, “No!”

Bai Liu turned back and walked into the dark passage, “Okay, don’t worry about my affairs here. I’m well aware of my own situation. Take care of your own affairs first. Do you remember when your soul left your body?”

Mu Sicheng hesitated for a moment, “… No.”

Bai Liu wasn’t surprised at all, he just nodded to show his understanding, “It’s usually difficult for the person to detect when their soul leaves the body. You just feel like you’re always walking – oblivious to when it ran out of your body. You think you’re still alive, but in fact, at this time, as long as you look back, you will find that your body is lying in the same place, not moving at all.”

“Let me ask you this in a different way.” Bai Liu pondered momentarily, “Do you remember when your shadow became blurry?”

Mu Sicheng answered quickly and confidently this time, “My candlestick was taken away during the wedding ceremony. I am sure my shadow was still normal during the wedding ceremony!”

“That means your body and soul separated after the wedding ceremony.” Bai Liu held up the candlestick and shone it towards the road in front of the corridor. “Then let’s go back the same way. Do you still remember the way to the wedding hall?”

Mu Sicheng did not answer.

Bai Liu paused, lowering the candlestick in his hand; he shone it on the ground, the flame flickering.

A ghost with a deformed face was lying on the ground, faintly resembling Mu Sicheng. It was curled up in pain, spitting out water from his mouth and his eyeballs were completely black.

Bai Liu squatted on one knee and stretched out his wrist for Mu Sicheng to take two breaths. Mu Sicheng choked and gagged twice, and his twisted body returned to normal, with his facial features looming.

Mu Sicheng raised his head, a thick layer of black air appeared on his face. He reluctantly answered Bai Liu’s previous words: “I- I still remember some of the roads, but I can’t remember some of them anymore…”

“It’s normal. When you become a ghost, you will gradually forget your memories of your life.” Bai Liu helped Mu Sicheng up. “The fact that your soul’s yin energy is gathering so quickly means your body is in a very bad condition. We have to hurry.”

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[1] In traditional Chinese weddings, there’s a process where the bride and groom perform three bows: the first bow to heaven and earth, the second bow to the ancestors, and the third bow to each other.

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