It's time to become an evil god.

After a brief commotion, the villagers, having calmed down, quickly jumped into the water and dragged the boat ashore.

"Found them, their bodies!"

"My God, what on earth happened? The death was too gruesome!"

At this moment, several villagers rushed out, their grief-stricken cries echoing as they tightly embraced the mangled corpse, their desperate wails tearing through the calm surface of the river.

The young man in a suit caught Bai Ge's attention. At that moment, the boat that had been drifting downstream had already reached the shore.

Tense, uneasy, and puzzled, all sorts of gazes were focused on the three outsiders. The villager who had just rowed over hurriedly ran to the village chief and whispered a few words in his ear.

The village chief's expression immediately changed, his eyes scanning the young man before him with a mixture of anger and uncertainty. He tentatively asked, "Young man, are you also sent by Boss Li?"

"Mr. Li?"

Bai Ge frowned, his first thought being: were there other players in the team dungeon?

“I heard that Li’s Mining has recently set its sights on the metal minerals in the Seventy-Two Niangniang Mountains. The Mr. Li he mentioned should be Li Xianfu of Li’s Mining.”

Wen Liang added, his tone tinged with disgust, "A ruthless mine owner even more vicious than Zhou Bapi."

Bai Ge nodded in empathy, "Indeed, if you don't have much money, you can earn it slowly."

"But once you lose your conscience, you earn even more."

"..."

"Hey? Young man, what are you doing here?"

A familiar voice rang out, and Bai Ge looked up to see the middle-aged scholar from the car earlier slowly walking over, accompanied by villagers. He looked at the young man he was meeting for the second time with curious eyes. "What a coincidence, it's wonderful."

"Master, Master, you must save me!"

Upon seeing the scholar, the village chief grasped at his arm as if it were a lifeline, trembling as he said, "It must be someone from Three-Headed Hidden Killer! Master, Master, please save us!"

"Three-headed Hidden?"

Bai Ge scrutinized the village chief, trying to extract more secrets from him. "What is the Three-Headed Treasure?"

The village chief turned around and said in a panic, "It's a three-headed monster, a terrifying and horrifying one!"

"A three-headed monster? Wait a minute."

The scholar hurriedly flipped through his notes, trying to figure out what it was. However, Bai Ge, who had been standing silently to the side, suddenly spoke up, "I know what it is."

The scholar looked up at Bai Ge's gloomy face, frowned, and tentatively asked, "Do you know what it is?"

"Ah."

Bai Ge's eyes were more serious than ever before as he said, word by word, "Based on the village chief's description, this monster should be the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon."

Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Ghost Bride in Her Wedding Dress

Although Bai Ge was making jokes, his eyes were fixed on the village chief and the man with gold-rimmed glasses standing beside him. The man's gaze never once fell on them; he was completely absorbed in staring at the headless corpse on the wooden boat, showing no fear of the bloody scene and displaying a calmness uncommon for ordinary people. The village chief, meanwhile, seemed to show no grief for his mysteriously deceased son, making the scene rather intriguing.

It was as if there was something or a secret about the four corpses that was drawing the other's attention.

"As expected, the team mission script is not so simple. Ghost marriage, three-headed treasure, White Kimono Goddess and Nuo God, plus Li's Mining, it's getting more and more complicated."

Bai Ge pulled the middle-aged scholars aside and asked in a low voice, "I didn't have a chance to greet you last time, Professor. What is your surname?"

"My surname is Zhong, just call me Professor Zhong."

Professor Zhong was clearly also very interested in the identities of Bai Ge and his companions, and revealed everything he knew. It turned out that the Li family's mining exploration team had encountered an accident while surveying mineral veins in the Seventy-Two Maidens Mountain area. The team of more than sixty people disappeared without a trace in the Seventy-Two Maidens Mountain, which was not yet open to the public.

The search and rescue team's efforts yielded no results, and they even encountered mysterious events that defied scientific explanation. The Li family, having invested heavily in this area, clearly wasn't about to let such a lucrative opportunity slip by. They used various connections to find Professor Zhong, hoping he could help them resolve their troubles.

As for the mysterious figure wearing glasses, it is said that he was a representative sent by the Li family. He had previously organized a group of people to take a boat into the mountains, with the village's son acting as their guide, but he also disappeared along with them.

"Could the way these people died be related to that woman's corpse? It seems like ever since that woman's corpse was placed in the mortuary, the village has never been peaceful."

"Shh, keep your voice down. Do you want to die? The village chief was originally planning to leave that woman's corpse to his son. He hates hearing things like this."

Bai Ge was intrigued by the villagers' conversation. Professor Zhong, who was standing nearby, lowered his voice and whispered, "The Laohuai Village area is closed off and ignorant. They still have the custom of ghost marriages. A few days ago, an unidentified female corpse floated down from upstream. It was lifelike and showed no signs of decay or stench. I heard from the villagers that the village chief is now discussing using that female corpse to arrange a ghost marriage for his son."

"A ghost marriage? Is this village chief really that audacious? He dares to take in a daughter-in-law from a corpse of unknown origin?"

"There's nothing we can do. The village chief's eldest son is a spendthrift who spends all his time drinking, gambling, and whoring. His original account is long gone, so he specially created a new one. He'd love for his son to die."

The moment the plot related to the mission came up, it instantly attracted the attention of the three of them. Bai Ge quickly asked, "Where is that unidentified female corpse now?"

Professor Zhong pointed to a road behind the village and said, "It's set up in the mortuary outside the village."

Bai Ge and his two companions abandoned the villagers and headed towards the mortuary outside Lao Huai Village.

The mortuary was located in a remote, desolate mountain area far from any village. It appeared to be a converted abandoned mountain god temple. The dilapidated temple was quite large, consisting of three halls. The roof tiles of the main hall were overgrown with weeds and shrouded in a layer of milky white mist. Flocks of bats flew around the old mountain god temple, and the old plaques inside creaked in the cold wind.

White lanterns hung at the entrance, their white backgrounds and black characters swaying precariously in the darkness.

Before entering, Bai Ge stopped and turned to his two teammates behind him, saying, "Since I've been assigned the task of a ghost marriage, I guess I'll have to be the only one to enter the mortuary to complete it."

"It's alright, go ahead and be bold."

"We'll stay here and keep watch," said Nishizawa Ryo.

He handed the other person a small, odd-looking metal ball and said, "If there are any problems with the mission, immediately crush this metal ball and notify us."

Bai Ge took the metal ball from the other person and pushed open the door of the mortuary.

A musty, rotten smell filled the air, and the overgrown courtyard was piled high with old, worn-out coffin boards. Exposed to the elements for so long, they had become old and decayed.

Inside the main room were two vermilion coffins, each with a red "囍" (double happiness) character pasted on its lid. A pair of red candles sat on the octagonal table, creating an eerie atmosphere of a funeral being celebrated as a celebration.

A few unburnt incense sticks were stuck in the incense burner, burning into a shape with two short and one long.

"People are most afraid of three long and two short, and incense is most afraid of two short and one long."

Bai Ge reached out and snapped off one of the long incense sticks.

"Sorry, my fate is in my own hands, not in the hands of heaven."

Then he walked to the tightly closed coffin and tried to push it open.

Even though there were no nails in the coffin, it wouldn't budge no matter how hard I tried.

Bai Ge then looked at another open coffin, pondered for a moment, lay down inside, and slowly closed the coffin. He lay in the dark, gloomy space, and soon the previously silent outside began to murmur as if he were floating on a boundless river. Unable to contain his curiosity, Bai Ge pushed open the coffin lid and sat up abruptly.

The outside was no longer the main hall of the Yizhuang Mountain God Temple, but an eerie water surface filled with gray mist.

The boat churned and rippled through the ghostly waters of the Yin River. A human skin lantern hung from one corner of the coffin, its eerie green glow emanating from the thick, gray mist on the water's surface, like a helpless, beacon of distress, guiding the lost ship.

The vermilion coffin moved silently across the eerily still water.

I couldn't see my surroundings clearly, but I could vaguely hear soft, rustling voices that kept lingering and echoing.

The mournful, ghostly singing style of traditional Chinese opera.

The woman's hysterical screaming.

The muffled sounds of sobbing and lamenting.

And eerie sounds of gongs and drums.

Bai Ge saw a bridal sedan chair appear in the distance. Four paper figures carried the bright red sedan chair and slowly approached him, creating ripples on the water's surface.

Finally, less than ten meters from the coffin, the bright red bridal sedan chair slowly landed on the ground.

The paper effigy remained motionless, as if it had lost its life.

The sedan curtain was gently rolled up, and a pale, dead hand slowly emerged from inside.

At some point, coins with a square outer shape and a round inner shape began to flutter in the sky. A pale hand pulled back the red sedan chair curtain, revealing a bride sitting inside, dressed in a bright red wedding gown and wearing a red veil.

In the eerie and unsettling environment, the bride, dressed in festive attire, evoked an indescribable sense of dread in Bai Ge.

The bride in the sedan chair seemed to be sizing him up.

Even though he was covered by a bright red veil, he could clearly feel a strange gaze scrutinizing him from head to toe beneath it.

The bride stood up and stepped out of the bridal sedan chair. On the calm water, arms rose to support her bound feet in her embroidered shoes.

With her hands folded over her lower abdomen, the bride in her red veil stood quietly, gazing at Bai Ge across the water.

A faint, gentle voice sounded in my ear, seemingly coming from a distant ghost realm, or perhaps just a few steps away.

"My husband, tell me you love me."

Below the water's surface, pale fingers kept climbing onto the coffin lid, and the hanging human skin lanterns swayed precariously, as if they were about to go out at any moment.

"Quickly, say you love me."

The eerie female voice rang out again, becoming increasingly urgent and shrill.

Bai Ge was silent for a moment before reluctantly saying, "You love me."

Chapter Thirty Electronic Emergency Call Devices

Bai Ge instantly felt his limbs stiffen, and he unconsciously stood up from the coffin, unable to move, watching the bride in her bright red wedding dress step by step, approaching the corpse beneath the water.

A cold, foul-smelling wind swept by, causing the red robe's sleeves to flutter wildly, even lifting the red veil halfway up. Inadvertently, one could see a chillingly pale face, not the bloodless ashen white of a corpse, but one thickly covered in makeup, with a thick layer of foundation, two patches of bright red rouge on the cheeks, and tightly closed red lips.

Bai Ge finally understood what it must have felt like for the top-ranked fan to carry a train away overnight while cursing and swearing.

Behind the bride in red was a cluster of ancient buildings built against the mountains, their silhouettes indistinct. On the mountain peak, a strange, dark shadow was shrouded in gray mist, resembling a giant, writhing tentacle. However, before Bai Ge could take a closer look, his hand involuntarily rose up. The bride in red slowly took two red wine glasses filled with an unidentified, blood-red liquid from her pale arm that rose from her feet.

Bai Ge's lips twitched.

Good grief, while others exchange toasts on their wedding night, you're drinking bathwater instead?

Why don't you wear a funeral shroud for your ghost marriage? Look at you, so capable!

"You, you stay away!"

Bai Ge smirked and threatened, "I'm a beast in bed, you can't handle me."

"Husband."

The bride blinked, smiled through the red veil, and asked softly, "How exactly will you unleash your beastly nature?"

"He's like a koala, sleeping for over ten hours a day but never touching you."

"I may not be human, but you really are a dog!"

The bride slowly lowered her hand, her movements and expression gradually turning cold. "Husband, you're refusing a polite offer and now you're asking for trouble, aren't you?"