Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter75

Chapter75

“Hua Hua?” Ye Susheng searched the house as quickly as she could, but Hua Suihe was nowhere to be found. She began to panic.

The black mist attached to Hua Suihe could only provide emotional resonance to its host; it could not transmit her location.

Ye Susheng dialed Hua Suihe’s phone. It rang twice before being hung up.

Hua Hua wouldn’t just ignore her call. There must be someone with her-someone wicked who had hung up on her.

“Hua Hua, Hua Hua!” Hua Hua was gone. Panic instantly spread through Ye Susheng’s heart, her body trembling uncontrollably. Her spiritual power surged out, instantly blanketing the entire village.

Under the crushing weight of her spiritual power, the Anomalies began to mutate collectively. Piercing shrieks echoed through the village as the black mist gathered like dark storm clouds over the rooftops.

The Anomaly who had carried Hua Suihe home had never seen a cell phone before; she had accidentally hung up on Ye Susheng’s call while trying to figure it out.

Now, the violent spiritual power instantly flattened her. Staring at the girl resting peacefully on the bed, the Anomaly felt a bitter sense of misery. She dragged her flattened body and scrambled toward the front door.

This was too much; she regretted it. It was clearly those humans’ fault, so why had she taken this task upon herself? She had even brought Xiao He into her own home. Why was Ye Susheng so enraged just because she couldn’t find the girl?

She struggled with all her might to drag herself out of the house. The pressure of the spiritual power felt like it was about to squeeze her brain out of her skull, leaving her completely unable to speak.

She finally managed to crawl out the door, only to find the entire alleyway littered with her grotesque kin, all collapsed in various states of agony. Their painful screams drowned out her own weak voice.

Where on earth is Hua Hua…

As Ye Susheng’s composure crumbled, she kicked open a player’s door, her entire being radiating murderous intent.

She was terrified that those players had captured Hua Hua to nail her into a coffin. At this moment, she completely disregarded the rules of the dungeon. Every time she kicked open a player’s door, she smashed the coffin inside their room.

When she failed to find the figure she longed for inside a coffin, she would seize the player for interrogation. Those who couldn’t speak or who desperately denied everything were all strangled to death by her.

As Ye Susheng went on her uncontrolled killing spree, the Horror System issued one alarm after another. The sharp siren blared in Hua Suihe’s mind, attempting to wake her from the effects of the coma talisman card.

The same system alarm reached the ears of the surviving players. Currently, aside from Hua Suihe, the only ones left were Yi Shuang and Fang Ge, who had gone to the Corpse River to look for clues and retrieve bodies.

The System seemed to be malfunctioning; there was only the heart-pounding alarm and no specific instructions.

Yi Shuang looked back toward the houses. Reacting quickly, she pulled Fang Ge onto the bank. The defensive talisman card attached to her body shattered instantly. As expected, when the System glitched, the effects of talisman cards exchanged with points became unstable. Living people couldn’t enter the Corpse River; they had nearly died in there.

The surface of the water moved despite the lack of wind, as if something in the river was about to crawl out.

“No, we have to go.” They couldn’t worry about the mission now. The last time the dungeon glitched, it was because Ye Susheng had gone on a rampage for the first time. No players survived, and the dungeon had closed early.

The current level of malfunction was no different from the last time. They couldn’t escape Xishi Village, but going back was certain death. Yi Shuang pulled Fang Ge toward the ancient manor that stood isolated outside the village.

It might be temporarily safe there.

Amidst the persistent alarms of the System, Hua Suihe finally woke up.

She opened her eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling. The unfamiliar room brought back memories of everything that had happened before she fainted.

Hua Suihe felt weak all over. Her bones felt like they had no strength, and even rolling over was a struggle. She couldn’t get up to check her physical condition, and the ugly face of that dead man kept flashing in her mind.

Hua Suihe blinked, and tears spilled from the corners of her eyes for no reason.

A terrifying thought took shape in her mind: Had she been violated?

[Oh, my sweet baby, you’re finally awake.]

[Don’t cry, don’t cry, Hua Hua. The Evil Black Mist chased the bad man away. Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid.]

[Hua Hua must be overthinking things. Nothing happened at all! Hugs, hugs~]

[Hua Hua was carried back by Auntie, but the situation right now isn’t great…]

[Hua Hua, maybe you should go check on Ye Susheng. The noise outside is getting a bit too loud.]

In her dazed state, Hua Suihe instinctively looked at the bullet screen in the livestream. Seeing from their words that her fears were unfounded, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as she was okay.

After calming down, Hua Suihe heard the wailing outside.

She didn’t know what was happening, but the sounds were distressing. However, she didn’t have the strength to get up.

Whose house was she in?

“Ye Zi, Ye Susheng?” Her voice was barely audible.

After finally managing to wake her up, the Horror System was speechless to find that Hua Suihe still had a soft-bone talisman card attached to her.

Since it couldn’t rely on Hua Suihe, the Horror System could only try to transmit information to the rampaging Ye Susheng through other channels.

It wanted to freeze space-time to notify Ye Susheng, but her emotions were too unstable. Her mind was entirely consumed by the need to find Hua Suihe, making her completely immune to the Thriller’s control.
Ye Susheng searched house by house for Hua Suihe. She didn’t dare use the same brutal methods she used to suppress Anomalies on humans, because Hua Hua was fragile, and she was afraid of accidentally hurting her.

She had checked all the players’ rooms, but Hua Hua was nowhere to be found.

“Susheng, Susheng…”

Hearing the call from the creature crawling on the ground, the black mist coiled around her and hoisted her up. “Where is Hua Hua? Did you hide her?”

This ugly monster smelled like Hua Hua; it must have come into contact with her.

Finally being noticed, the Auntie tremblingly pointed toward her own home.

Please, stop now, you living ancestor! The Corpse River over there is the ancestral graveyard for the whole village!

The Corpse River was currently surging. To those who didn’t know better, it might look like the corpses were about to crawl out, but in reality, the ancestral graves were about to be uprooted. If this continued, the corpses in the river would rot away.

Ye Susheng tossed her aside and teleported into the house she had pointed to.

The suffocating mental pressure finally vanished.

The Auntie lay on the ground, tearfully cheering herself on as she forced her flattened body back into shape.

The other shattered Anomalies were also self-repairing. They had truly never seen anyone so insane; the Anomalies of the entire village were piled up on the road like heaps of trash.

Was there no complaint channel in the Horror World? The staff of the Yu Sheng Troupe were like total bullies.

After entering the house, Ye Susheng saw Hua Suihe. She immediately ran over, scooped Hua Suihe up from the bed, and held her in a tight embrace. “Hua Hua!”

“Waaaah… Hua Hua, why did you hang up on me? Was it that ugly monster? Who bullied you? Hua Hua, don’t be afraid, waaaah…” Ye Susheng cried and shouted, her breath hitching as her words became a jumbled mess.

Hua Suihe struggled to lift her hand and rest it on the other’s back, but she truly had no strength. Ye Susheng’s hug was too forceful; she felt the aching soreness in her bones flare up, forcing tears from her eyes.

Ye Susheng buried her face in the crook of Hua Suihe’s neck, letting her hot tears drip onto her skin. She opened her mouth and nipped at Hua Hua’s collarbone, her body shaking with sobs. Because of this, she didn’t notice Hua Suihe’s abnormal state.

“Hua Hua, Hua Hua…”

“Hua Hua, hug me… I want Hua Hua to hug me. Why won’t Hua Hua hug me…”

At this moment, Ye Susheng’s skin hunger was acting up. She wanted Hua Suihe to return her embrace with equal intensity; she wanted Hua Hua’s touch, her kisses, and for Hua Hua to treat her with the utmost intimacy.

Why wasn’t Hua Hua hugging her?

With eyes full of tears, Ye Susheng looked up at Hua Suihe with a look of grievance, only to find tears hanging from Hua Suihe’s eyelashes and two clear tear tracks on her face.

Ye Susheng froze. She leaned in to kiss away the tear stains, her heart filled with even greater panic. “Why is Hua Hua crying? Did someone mistreat you? I’ll go kill that ugly monster right now.”

Hua Suihe’s fingers were limp and weak. She feebly grabbed the hem of Ye Susheng’s clothes. “I… I feel very unwell right now.”

She didn’t know what was happening, but she had no strength at all. Her bones felt as if they had been taken apart and put back together.

Hearing Hua Suihe’s weak voice, Ye Susheng loosened her grip slightly and pulled back a bit. Finally, she noticed the talisman card stuck to Hua Suihe.

The black mist enveloped it and crushed it to pieces.

“It wasn’t the ugly monster’s doing.” The murderous intent in Ye Susheng’s red eyes intensified. “It was those damned players. They were the ones trying to harm Hua Hua.”

The moment the talisman card vanished, Hua Suihe’s strength returned. The aching pain in her bones gradually faded. Finally able to move her hands, she immediately gave Ye Susheng a loving hug.

Her warm hands climbed up Ye Susheng’s neck, her palms expertly kneading the back of her neck. She pressed her body against her, guiding Ye Susheng to continue holding her tightly.

“There, there. You were crying so hard; you must have been terrified, right?” Hua Suihe remembered the last time at the school when Ye Susheng had also cried while looking for her. She didn’t know how long Ye Susheng had been searching this time, but her body was ice-cold.

“Hua Hua, I looked for you… I looked for so long.” Strictly speaking, it hadn’t been that long. She had searched the courtyards one by one at her fastest speed, but she hadn’t reached this one yet.

But when she couldn’t find Hua Hua, every second felt like an eternity.

She didn’t want to work anymore. She should stay by Hua Hua’s side every single moment, never to be parted.

“Don’t be afraid, it’s okay. It was just a close call. Some creepy guy suddenly came over and said he was jealous of my good luck, and then I just blacked out.” Hua Suihe vividly described her experience. “Luckily, an Auntie saved me. I should be in her house right now, right?”

The bullet chat had said an Auntie carried her back, but she hadn’t seen the person and didn’t know which one it was.

Listening to her description, Ye Susheng’s tears fell steadily. She leaned in to press her lips against Hua Suihe’s. “Thank goodness Hua Hua is okay… Thank goodness Hua Hua is okay…”

That creepy guy must have already been killed by the black mist. She didn’t know if he had a revival card. She had just felt the Thriller Consciousness calling to her, but her heart was full of Hua Hua, so she had ignored it.
Ye Susheng released her consciousness, actively welcoming the summons of the Thriller Consciousness.

The Thriller finally caught an opportunity and instinctively tried to perform Formatting on Ye Susheng, but it withdrew its power a moment later, yielding to her.

Ye Susheng found the information of the player who had harmed Hua Suihe and placed a mark directly on him. From now on, this player would die at her hands countless times; he would appear in dungeons infinitely, and death would accompany him forever.

Ye Susheng withdrew her consciousness and held Hua Hua, promising, “I’ll get revenge for Hua Hua.”

Just as Hua Suihe was about to say something, the cold, ruthless voice of the game System rang out in her mind.

[A dungeon malfunction has occurred due to special reasons. Therefore, this dungeon has ended early. Surviving players have cleared the level. Congratulations, player Hua Suihe, for obtaining a clearance reward of 3,000 points. Note: This dungeon requires repairs. Players must leave the village before tomorrow.]

[Note: This dungeon requires repairs. Players must leave the village before tomorrow.]

The reason for the dungeon malfunction wasn’t explained clearly, but the repeated message at the end was definitely a private notification for her. Other players would be teleported away immediately after receiving the clearance information.

Hua Suihe wiped away her tears, recalling the noise she had heard when she first woke up. “It was so noisy outside just now. What happened?”

A flash of guilt flickered in Ye Susheng’s eyes. She lowered her head and continued to nibble on Hua Suihe’s collarbone, one hand hugging Hua Suihe’s back while the other pulled Hua Suihe’s hand to her waist. She muttered, “I want Hua Hua to hold me.”

Those ugly freaks better hurry up; don’t let Hua Hua see that hideous sight.

Throw all the newly anomalized players into the Corpse River. They aren’t allowed to come out and scare people.

Ye Susheng was guilty and unwilling to talk, but based on Hua Suihe’s understanding of her, this definitely had something to do with her.

Since she didn’t want to say, Hua Suihe didn’t ask. There was no more noise outside now, so it probably wasn’t anything major.

After cuddling and being affectionate with Ye Susheng for a long time, Hua Suihe finally got out of bed.

She pulled Ye Susheng toward the door, asking as they walked, “I haven’t seen the auntie who carried me back. Did you see her when you came in?”

Ye Susheng pursed her lips and nodded silently.

Ye Susheng secretly sent out her black mist to scout. Those ugly freaks weren’t allowed to appear before Hua Hua until they had recovered.

Fortunately, she and Hua Suihe had spent enough time being affectionate that the Anomalies, no longer being ravaged by her mental power, were repairing themselves quickly. The auntie was hiding in the kitchen, peeking through the crack in the door with one eyeball.

She kept praying in her heart, hoping they would leave quickly.

Hua Suihe walked all the way out the door without seeing a single person. She remembered that almost every household had their doors open in the morning, but now it had returned to the scene she saw on the first day.

All the doors were tightly shut, and the village was so quiet there wasn’t a single sound.

Little did she know that pairs of eyes were pressed against the doors, staring at them as they passed.

Before Ye Susheng went on her rampage, they had thought the two girls were so beautiful that it would be nice to keep them in the village.

After Ye Susheng’s rampage, they never wanted to see them again.

Ye Susheng’s emotions were so unstable; if she went crazy one more time, their ancestral graves would definitely not be spared. They were still praying that their ancestors could walk out of the river once the Thriller descended.

Hua Suihe and Ye Susheng walked back to their own courtyard. “The dungeon ended early. The game System notified me that we have to leave today.”

She looked up at the sky. Dark clouds loomed, and the air was thick with moisture. It would likely rain soon.

“Can we get a car here?” The System had reminded her twice; they had to leave today.

Ye Susheng also knew the dungeon was over. She led Hua Hua into the room. “Don’t worry, Hua Hua. I’ll contact a private car. Once we finish packing our luggage, we can take the car home.”

Hua Suihe nodded. “It’s just a bit of a shame. The villagers were always so hospitable and invited us to eat. The auntie from No. 16 Courtyard even invited us for dinner tonight.”

At this point, Hua Suihe let out an “Oh!” “I didn’t get a chance to turn her down today. Since we’re leaving tonight, I should go tell her. It would be so embarrassing if she prepared a meal for us in advance.”

Ye Susheng held Hua Suihe’s shoulders and sat her down on the bed. “Hua Hua, sit for a moment. I’ll go tell her.”

Hua Suihe watched Ye Susheng walk out of the room, then sat by herself, looking around at the room’s furnishings. The things she had brought were just some clothes, shoes, and daily necessities.

She took out her clothes and packed them into her suitcase.

[Is Hua Hua’s rural transformation journey over?]

[It’s half a month short. Ye Susheng is really something.]

[When is the next dungeon? The rest days won’t be extended because of this, will they? Please, no!]