Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 32

Water Cube and Gua Gua walked to the doorway and looked inside. In front of the sink stood a plainly dressed girl, who seemed completely unaware of the arrival of outsiders, her back turned to them the whole time.

They stopped outside the door, nervously watching. This was the ‘missing girl’ they were looking for.

Su Sheng turned off the faucet, flicked the water from her hands into the sink, pulled a tissue from the side, dried her hands, and tossed the tissue into the trash bin.

Only then did she turn around and see them.

“Are you… here to find me?” The joy in Su Sheng’s eyes masked her murderous intent; she stood graceful and harmless.

Water Cube stood slightly behind Gua Gua, then suddenly raised his hand and pushed Gua Gua into the world inside the door.

Gua Gua stumbled forward a couple of steps, incredulously turning to look at Water Cube outside the door. She looked at him, and saw the madness and anxiety in his eyes.

Water Cube was indeed nervous, because he knew that the old library and the new library were overlapping spaces, and he also knew that the truth behind the girl’s disappearance was linked to the Anomaly, so this side quest was never about finding the truth.

It was a sacrifice.

Sacrificing the girl to the missing girl.

As long as the Anomaly accepted the sacrifice, at that very moment, he would use the dagger in his hand to kill the Anomaly, and he could clear the quest.

So he pushed Gua Gua in, waiting for the Anomaly to devour her.

But as he watched anxiously, nothing happened.

“Why did you…” The moment Gua Gua was pushed in, her heart nearly leapt out of her chest. She wanted to speak out in accusation, but then remembered her own predicament.

So she looked at the girl in the checkered floral dress with fear, only to see the girl tilting her head, sizing up her and the man outside the door, without making any move.

Water Cube murmured in confusion, “How could this be? This shouldn’t happen…”

Why wasn’t the Anomaly acting? Why wasn’t it accepting the sacrifice?

‘When exchanging life for life, kill the Anomaly, and you can clear the side quest.’

The three of them remained in a stalemate for a while.

Su Sheng walked gracefully over, standing beside Gua Gua, her tone soft and languid, bewitching: “Weren’t you two here together to find me? Why did he only let you come in to find me?”

Gua Gua’s gaze gradually became empty and dazed. Yes, why? Weren’t they together?

Water Cube was still standing outside the door. Seeing Su Sheng approach Gua Gua, he thought she was about to kill Gua Gua, so he gripped the dagger even tighter, nerves taut, ready to strike at the perfect moment.

Only this dagger could kill the Anomaly.

A few days ago, Jing Wen had used this knife in class to behead the Anomaly. At that moment, Water Cube knew that only this dagger could kill the Anomaly.

Gua Gua stiffly turned around. In fact, she hadn’t been pushed very far, so when she took two steps toward Water Cube, there was hardly any distance between them.

Water Cube saw Gua Gua about to step out the door, and grew anxious. She couldn’t come out; if she did, they would fail.

He swallowed, trying to persuade her, “Gua Gua, she doesn’t want to hurt you. You can ask her, ask her why she’s stayed in the library for five years, whether she knows if she’s alive or dead.”

Gua Gua suddenly grabbed his arm and pulled him inside. Caught off guard, he was actually dragged a step forward, one foot crossing into the room.

“We came together, so let’s ask together.”

A chill crept into his bones. Water Cube looked at the girl in terror, the taut string in his mind finally snapping.

He saw countless tentacles stretch out from the mirror behind the girl, instantly binding him and Gua Gua.

Water Cube moved as fast as he could, using the dagger in his hand to sever the tentacles, but the tentacles squeezed him so tightly he could barely breathe, his whole body wracked with pain.
He wanted to retreat back to the world outside the door, but the girl made her move.

The black mist body was even faster than the mirror’s tendrils. In an instant, it wrapped him up and threw him, sending him straight into the mirror’s gaping, blood-red maw with pinpoint accuracy, crashing against the pile of bone fragments inside.

Another person, still bound by the tendrils, was also shoved into the mirror’s mouth and noisily chewed up.

With a loud “ptoo,” the mirror spat out the dagger that had been stuck in its throat.

It landed at Su Sheng’s feet. She kicked it away disdainfully, sending it flying into some unknown corner.

This dagger belonged to Yi Shuang. Only this dagger could kill an Anomaly. Su Sheng had seen it before, and she’d even been wounded by it herself once. In a fit of rage, she snapped the dagger in half.

But in the next dungeon, the dagger would always find its way back to Yi Shuang. She couldn’t be bothered to go to the trouble of destroying it again.

“Su Sheng!”

A familiar voice called out. Su Sheng instantly reverted to her own appearance, her eyes lighting up. She wanted to rush out the door to find Hua Hua, but was stopped by an invisible barrier.

She frowned slightly, confusion flickering in her eyes, but the longing to see her wife overwhelmed everything. She rushed at the barrier again, only to bounce back and almost fall to the ground.

“Su Sheng? Ye Susheng! Ye, are you there?” Hua Suihe’s voice was especially clear in the quiet space.

This time, Su Sheng was completely at a loss. “Hua Hua… Hua Hua!”

Su Sheng pressed both hands against the transparent barrier. She couldn’t step through the door; it was as if she had been locked inside the old library’s space.

“Su Sheng? Are you in the bathroom?” Hua Hua’s voice was getting closer-she must have heard Su Sheng’s reply.

Here, the mirror’s noisy chewing and lip-smacking was especially vigorous. Hua Hua must not come over. Hua Hua can’t enter the old library’s space, or she’ll be forced onto a side quest by the Horror System.

Su Sheng turned around and, across the space, landed a big slap on the mirror. The bone-crunching sounds instantly stopped.

“Su Sheng? I just heard you! Are you playing hide-and-seek with me?”

Her voice was very close now. Panicking, Su Sheng summoned the black mist body to wrap herself up, turning invisible. At the same time, the black mist body puffed up at the door like a cloud, then became transparent.

So when Hua Suihe arrived at the door, wanting to go into the bathroom to look for Su Sheng, she bounced off the entrance, greeted by a springy sensation.

Huh?

Hua Suihe reached out to touch it. It felt just like cotton candy-her fingers sank in as if stuck in marshmallow, but there was nothing to be seen with the naked eye, and she couldn’t get past the doorway.

“Area ahead not unlocked, unable to explore?” Hua Suihe muttered to herself, sounding just like a system prompt from a game.

The black mist body, poked by Hua Hua, was both shy and excited. It wrapped around Hua Hua’s fingers, sucking on them hungrily like a pervert.

Hua Suihe pulled her hand back. “Aiya, I can’t even touch it? There’s an electric shock penalty too?”

Black Mist Body. Su Sheng: Wuwuwu, Hua Hua~

Hua Suihe could only try to look through the open door. “Ye? Ye, are you in there?”

Su Sheng stood pitifully in front of Hua Suihe, hands also pressed against the barrier that kept her from leaving.

She didn’t know why she couldn’t get out, but it was definitely the doing of the Horror System.

Because Su Sheng was gradually breaking free from the control and restraints of the horror world, when the Horror System realized this uncontrollable variable was growing stronger, it tried to erase her.

Locking her inside the old space was just a way to scramble Su Sheng’s code, so it could format her and conveniently create a new, controllable “Su Sheng.”

Su Sheng would never let it succeed.

Hua Hua was still waiting for her. Hua Hua loved her so much-she had even come all the way from her own world to be with her.

She would never let the next “Su Sheng” have her.

Su Sheng pressed up against the barrier, her two red eyes practically glued to Hua Suihe-Hua Hua, Hua Hua, Hua Hua…