Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 123 Godfather and Godson

After watching two horror movies, everyone was tired and ready to wash up and rest.

After taking a shower and scrolling through his phone for a while, Jiang Jin was about to go to sleep when he suddenly received a call from "Wu Ge".

He frowned. What's going on so late?
After completing the Yimin Convenience Store instance quest, Jiang Jin, Murong Yan, and Wu Ge exchanged phone numbers and agreed to contact each other again when they had time.

When Jiang Jin answered the phone, he heard a faint static noise in the receiver, as if the signal was being interfered with by some force.

“Jiang Jin, I’m currently in a terrifying instance. I can’t guarantee I’ll come out alive, so I’ll keep it short.” Wu Ge’s voice was soft but exceptionally clear. “If you’re going to enter a Korean terrifying instance recently, be careful.”

"What do you mean?" Jiang Jin was shocked. They were about to go to Blue Rainbow Academy and enter a Korean-style horror dungeon!

Moreover, how long has it been since the Yimin Convenience Store arc, and Wu Ge has already entered a new arc?
"Anyway... be careful." Wu Ge didn't explain, and the phone suddenly dropped, leaving only a cold busy tone.

Jiang Jin stared at his phone. The call log on the screen disappeared automatically after a few seconds, as if it had never existed.

Who exactly is Wu Ge? This kind of terrifying dungeon has a cell phone that allows you to make calls to the outside world, which can't be bought just by having resentment crystals.

Wu Ge put down his phone and looked ahead.

He was standing in the villa from the horror movie "A Tale of Two Sisters," a house in the Lost Layer where space was distorted. Spatial distance in the Material Layer was meaningless here.

The corridor stretched endlessly, red blood-like patterns seeping from the walls, and a damp, musty smell filled the air.

"This place is more troublesome than we expected."

Beside Wu Ge, Valeria—the Italian woman who had switched from the Blood Skull team to Bloodshed—said in a low voice.

She is a Level 3 Spirit Medium: Yin-Yang Envoy, capable of seeing spiritual traces that are imperceptible to ordinary people.

“Xiulian and her mother harbored too much resentment.” Wu Ge’s fingertips brushed across the wallpaper, the touch feeling like cold skin. “In the movie, everyone thought the supernatural phenomena were due to Xiuwei’s schizophrenia and that there were no ghosts, but actually I watched that movie several times back then… Their ghosts in the movie were really in the villa.”

A piercing scream came from afar, followed by a dull thud as something heavy fell to the ground, just like at the end of the movie when the wardrobe belonging to the younger sister, Xiulian, was crushed.

Wu Ge and Valeria exchanged a glance and quickly headed toward the source of the sound.

“Something’s not right here,” Valeria whispered. Her psychic abilities allowed her to sense the rising concentration of resentment in the surrounding area. “Xiulian’s ghost is manipulating space.”

Wu Ge did not answer, but his fingers were already on the short knife at his waist.

The blade is engraved with ancient witchcraft. It is a cursed weapon given to him by his adoptive father, Blood Lord, and has a special killing power against vengeful spirits.

The two quickened their pace, but the corridor seemed to be deliberately working against them—the sound was right in front of them, and after running for a full three minutes, the distance hadn't shortened at all.

“Space has been folded.” Valeria stopped, took out a talisman from her bosom, bit her finger, and drew a blood talisman on it. “Young Master, step back and let me clear the way.”

She flung the talisman forward, and the blood talisman burned in the air, creating a twisted path.

At the end of the corridor, a man in his thirties was kneeling on the ground, his left arm torn open with a deep wound that exposed the bone, and blood was dripping out continuously.

Strangely, the blood droplets disappeared before they even touched the ground, as if they had been absorbed by the house.

The man's name was Sima Jin, and he was the leader of the Misty Swamp team. The Misty Swamp was the third division of the Insect Nest team, under the command of the overall leader, Lady Pussy.

Among the five squads of the Insect Nest, Misty Swamp is the biggest outlier. Sima Jin has always been strongly dissatisfied with Lady Pussy's cruel method of using living people to refine Gu, and has even defied her orders many times, but he would never kill innocent people indiscriminately.

His profession is Priest LV3 - Chosen One. His profession ability should allow him to use the power of evil spirits to heal his injuries, but at this moment, his healing spells are completely ineffective.

"Damn it..." Sima Jin gritted his teeth and looked up ahead.

Xiulian's ghost hovered in the middle of the corridor, her body twisted at an unbelievable angle, her neck turned 180 degrees, her black hair hanging down to cover most of her face, revealing only one bloodshot eye.

Her fingers were long and slender, sharp as knives; it was this claw that had just torn open Sima Jin's arm.

"Brother Jin!"

Xia Yu—Sima Jin's wife, a Level 2 witch and puppeteer, was half-crouching behind him. She looked to be in her early twenties, with long, smooth, jet-black hair, delicate features, bright and affectionate eyes, a straight nose, and deep red lips. Her figure, revealed as she half-crouched, was nothing short of devilishly proportioned.

At this moment, Xia Yu held a straw doll in her hand. Three silver needles were inserted into the doll's chest, stained with blood; these were the medium she used to cast her spell.

"Xiaoyu, use your natal spell doll!" Sima Jin roared.

The shrine maiden finds it very easy to manipulate paper cutouts at LV1, but it becomes much more difficult at LV2.

Xia Yu quickly took out another doll, bit her finger, and smeared the blood on the doll's eyes.

"Using blood as a catalyst, and puppetry to create spirits—begin!"

The doll suddenly trembled violently, and then Xiulian's ghost seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, and her movements froze for a moment!
Sima Jin seized the opportunity and suddenly slammed his right hand into the ground!

Consumes 20% of SAN points to sacrifice to the evil spirit!

A cloud of black mist rose from the floor.

The black mist quickly entered Xiulian's ghostly body, and her body was instantly struck as if by lightning, emitting a piercing scream.

Just as Sima Jin thought he had succeeded, footsteps suddenly came from the other end of the corridor. He turned around alertly and saw Wu Ge and Valeria running towards him.

Sima Jin's pupils suddenly contracted.

What shocked him even more was that the person who came was actually Valeria Pasniola, and the Blood Lord's adopted son!
"A bloody team?!" Sima Jin roared.

As everyone knows, the Bloodstained and Insect Nest teams are mortal enemies!
This isn't a raid instance! How did they get in?!
Valeria didn't answer, but just gave him a cold glance before looking at Xiulian's ghost.

“Their SAN value is consuming far too much, much lower than ours,” Wu Ge whispered to Valeria. “The ghosts will target them first.”

Sure enough, Xiulian's shriek suddenly changed direction, completely ignoring Wu Ge and Valeria, and pounced on Sima Jin and Xia Yu again. "Damn it!" Sima Jin had no choice but to fight again, but this time, his movements were noticeably slower—excessive blood loss, coupled with the backlash from the evil spirit's power, caused his condition to deteriorate rapidly.

Seeing this, Xia Yu immediately manipulated the puppet to try to interfere with Xiu Lian, but the ghost was too fast, and the puppet's curse could not keep up with her movements.

"Brother Jin, hang in there!"

Xia Yu immediately supported Sima Jin from behind.

Suddenly, black mist surged out of Xiulian's body, and her body immediately froze!
In the distance, a pale shadow slowly emerged—it was Xiuwei and Xiulian's mother, who had committed suicide, and her ghost was far more terrifying than her daughters'.

However, shrouded in churning black mist, even though the mother and daughter's ghosts could see Sima Jin and Xia Yu, the black mist had successfully distorted space, making it impossible for them to reach the two of them.

"Phew," Sima Jin looked at Xia Yu and said, "I'll replenish my SAN first!"

He was in very bad shape at this moment and quickly took out a syringe from the Reincarnator's Watch.

This injection is obtained from the Silent Hill instance, though it's more commonly known as the Silent Hill dungeon by Chinese players.

He prepared to receive an injection to replenish his SAN.

Otherwise, he would be no match for the bloodthirsty team before him.

But just then, Xia Yu suddenly said, "Brother Jin, this injection... can you let me take a look at it?"

"What's wrong, Xiaoyu? Is something the problem?"

Xia Yu took the injection, and suddenly, she took out a jade pendant broken in half from her Reincarnator watch and shouted, "Exchange!"

At the same time, Wu Ge also took out half a jade pendant.

He and Xia Yu suddenly switched places!

By the time Sima Jin realized what was happening, a dagger had already pierced his abdomen, and before him stood Wu Ge, his eyes cold.

"Xia Yu?!" Sima Jin looked at his wife Xia Yu, who had moved to stand next to Valeria, in disbelief. "You—"

"I'm sorry, Brother Jin," Xia Yu said, but her charming eyes showed no remorse whatsoever. "I'm the one who led the Bloody Team into this instance."

Sima Jin's pupils contracted sharply. Before he could react, Wu Ge twisted the arm holding the dagger sharply!
At the same time, Valeria's fingertips swept across the void, and a talisman appeared out of thin air and affixed to Sima Jin's forehead.

"seal up!"

Sima Jin's body stiffened instantly, and his professional ability—Priest LV3·Chosen One—was forcibly locked.

Still feeling unsafe, Wu Ge took out a pair of black shackles from the Reincarnator's watch and fastened them to his wrists.

"Magic-suppressing shackles." Wu Ge sneered. "Now you're just an ordinary person."

Sima Jin struggled to lift his head, his eyes filled with anger and despair: "Xia Yu! Why?!"

Xia Yu was still smiling: "Su Yuan from the Morning Light team gave me some inspiration. When men can't be relied on, women can only rely on themselves. As the saying goes, a good bird chooses a good tree to perch on, right?"

"Stop pretending," Wu Ge rolled his eyes to the heavens. "Isn't it just because our Bloody Team gives us too much?"

Xia Yu's expression remained completely unchanged.

Half an hour later.

Sima Jin was taken to the Bloody Team's temporary base in this instance.

Blood Lord sat in a high-backed chair, his fingertips lightly tapping the armrest, his gaze fixed on Sima Jin, who was forced to kneel on the ground.

"It's been a long time, Ah Jin." Blood Lord's voice carried a hint of nostalgia. "We used to be low-level members of the Insect Nest, and all we ever dreamed of was becoming a squad leader. Now, you've achieved that dream."

Sima Jin sneered: "Enough nonsense, just kill me! I was blind back then, knowing full well that you had offended Lady Pustuca and been demoted to the lowest rank, I still desperately recommended you to the higher-ups!"

Blood Lord coldly said, "What? Did you recommend me for this position? Wasn't it you who personally led the hunt for me back then?"

"That's because you clearly have talent, but you insist on taking the crooked path! Let me tell you, the limit of the path you're on is only the Soul Prison Master. You will never become a Level 5 Soul Stealer! If you do, I'll eat shit live on air for you!"

Blood Lord's expression turned cold.

Valeria walked up to Sima Jin, about to slap him, but was stopped by Blood Lord.

"I remember when you took me to the food street on Changping Road, we had that spicy stir-fried clams." At this moment, Blood Lord actually started making small talk with him. "It was too spicy. Actually, I really didn't like it, but I still told you it was delicious. But now, I've never had it again. There's a saying, what is poison to one man and honey to another... and vice versa."

"I was blind back then!"

Wu Ge looked at the furious Sima Jin and said coldly, "Sima Jin, you work under Lady Pustules, how dare you mention the words 'heretical sects' to my godfather?"

"If I hadn't been cursed by Lady Pustuca and controlled by her, I would have left the Insect Nest team long ago! My branch never allows anyone to kill innocent people indiscriminately!" He then looked at Xia Yu, "And Xia Yu! I would rather be cursed by another layer of Gu than have a single Gu worm in your body! Is this how you repay me???"

"Alright, Ah Jin, submit to me." The Blood Lord stood up and walked up to him. "I will help you remove the Gu and break free from the control of the insect nest. Then you and your husband can still serve me together."

"Don't even think about it!" Sima Jin spat. "You want to remove the curse, and then have your soul imprint planted on you, right? Even if I die, I won't—"

“Why are you always dead?” Blood Lord shook his head and said, “I won’t kill you, Ah Jin. You say I’ve gone down the wrong path and can’t become LV5? I’ll prove you wrong. I can become a Soul Stealer LV5: Thousand Faces! I’ll make you live to see that day! Guards, take him away!”

Then, he glanced at Wu Ge and patted his head.

"Well done. This is the commander of the third squad of the Insect Nest."

Wu Ge glanced at Xia Yu and said, "It was just luck, Godfather, you flatter me."

Suddenly, a black insect abruptly crawled out of Wu Ge's neck!
(End of this chapter)