It's time to become an evil god.

"What are you doing..."

"Shhh."

Bai Ge made a shushing gesture and whispered, "There's a sound."

Everyone strained their ears, and amidst the sound of the wind came faint sounds of drums and music. As time went on, the sounds of gongs and drums became clearer and clearer.

The drumming and music that started were indistinguishable from celebratory music for a wedding or funeral dirges; they simply gave off an eerie and ghostly feeling.

"How about it?"

The witch's face lit up with excitement, and she rolled up her sleeves, eager to try. "Let's fight them!"

"Wait a minute."

Bai Ge waved his hand, signaling everyone to climb behind the small slope above the steps and hide in the tall grass to look out.

Before long, a group of eerie figures dressed in mourning clothes appeared, forming a long line. They were banging gongs, beating drums, and playing suonas. At the front stood two dead-faced figures dressed in dark red clothes, tossing money and paper flowers from their baskets into the air.

They orderly escorted a bizarre paper sedan chair, resembling one burned for the dead, as they walked deeper into the valley. A chilling wind blew from the procession.

Anxiety was evident on every player's face. In dungeon games, they couldn't see the levels of the bosses and mobs, and rushing in without knowing their level would only result in their own and their teammates getting killed.

Xi Zeliang turned around, only to find that Bai Ge had disappeared without a trace. He asked in astonishment, "Where is Bai Ze?"

Reminded by Ryoichi Nishizawa, everyone turned around, only to find that Bai Ge had disappeared at some point.

The Blood Demon frowned and asked, "Has something happened to him?"

"impossible."

Wen Liang said firmly, "I am a professional assassin, and there was absolutely no one else nearby just now."

"Could it be that the player has some kind of stealth method?"

"Shh, don't make any noise."

The witch frowned, pointed to the line below, and said, "Something's not right."

When the other players looked over, they discovered that the group of inhuman creatures had suddenly stopped, and the music played by the Red Melody and White Tune had abruptly ceased.

These ghostly things stared straight ahead, their faces displaying eerie smiles.

What are they doing?

Curiosity filled everyone's minds, only to hear a very awkward opening remark from the front.

"This mountain is mine, these trees are mine, if you want to pass, leave your toll!"

Everyone looked over with a lot of annoyance, and there stood Bai Ge, who had changed into a black night outfit at some point, blocking the middle of the road, followed by some shadowy ghostly figures.

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Even Wuxian, who was usually silent, said with frustration, "Xize Liang, are you sure this guy is really okay?"

Without much confidence, Nishizawa Ryo replied, "Probably...."

The paper effigy wears a pirate's one-eyed mask, holds two machetes, and chatters incoherently, indicating that they are the Robin Hood heroes of Liangshan who rob the rich to help the poor. It is the Black Whirlwind paper effigy. The person next to it wearing red embroidered shoes is the Goddess of Death, Lin Daiyu, the Mother Night Demon, the Second Fox, and the person in the Demon-Revealing Mirror. There is also their leader, a master of underworld studies, the nemesis of demons and monsters, the savior of low blood pressure, a master of high-intensity antics, an expert in daydreaming, and the Gestapo Bai Ze who has failed the CET-4 exam for three consecutive years.

Xi Zeliang was really annoyed. "What exactly is he trying to do?"

"I understand."

The witch stood up, sat on the floating staff, and smiled. "This guy is probably planning to use these ghostly things to find the Human Skin Inn. In that case, I won't be polite."

The witch crossed her arms and muttered incantations, while a complex, glowing white magic circle appeared out of thin air behind her.

She suddenly opened her eyes and shouted, "Guide Formation!"

The sedan curtain was lifted, and a remarkably slender bride appeared before Bai Ge. Her body was nothing but bare white bones, giving her an eerie and ghostly appearance.

"My lord, my husband is the owner of the Human Skin Inn. If you offend him, be careful that your skin is peeled off and made into lanterns."

The talking skeleton took another step forward and said in a chilling tone, "Or are you trying to take advantage of me?"

After saying that, he deliberately adjusted his collar.

Bai Ge immediately took a step back and said seriously, "This female ghost, please have some self-respect. I am not a casual person."

Before he could finish speaking, he heard a call from above.

"Brother Bai, be careful."

Bai Ge looked up, and a magic circle appeared out of thin air in mid-air above his head. Then, a huge boulder fell from the sky. Before he could react, it smashed the Bone Bride, who was not far away, into pieces, which then disappeared into the deep pit.

The remaining players ran down the mountain, and Wuxian immediately cast a meme curse, erasing the consciousness of all the ghosts that were trying to scatter and escape, turning them into empty puppet shells.

The witch leaped down from her staff, looked at the lifeless skeletal bride trapped under the boulder, and said disdainfully, "Seriously? Is this all the ghosts are capable of?"

"Um……"

Bai Ge raised his head, looked at the smug witch in front of him, and said, "I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"

Immersed in the joy of achieving the first kill, the witch casually remarked, "Of course, it's good news."

"The good news is that you've just killed the bride of the innkeeper of the human skin."

The witch paused for a moment, then asked hesitantly, "And the bad news?"

Bai Ge spread his hands and said, "The bad news is that you now have to pretend to be someone's bride."

Chapter Fifty-One: Because I've seen the world!

Blood Demon observed the group of ghosts behind Bai Ge with great interest. He had previously witnessed necromancers and Taoist priests manipulating corpses to tighten screws on an electronics factory assembly line 24 hours a day. When the police cracked down on a necromancer criminal group that smuggled corpses, they even created terrifying monsters with a thousand hands and a hundred heads. At first, the Special Affairs Bureau thought these guys were terrorist organizations like the White Lotus Cult, but after questioning them, they learned that these guys were using these things to tighten screws.

As a result, after the group of necromancers were captured, they were taken in for species identification and genetic testing because the Special Affairs Bureau suspected that they were vampires disguised as humans.

Bringing his wandering thoughts back, the Blood Demon asked curiously, "Where did you find all these ghosts?"

Bai Ge explained, "You mean these ghosts? They all came to help me voluntarily."

The paper figures nodded reluctantly; they were all ghosts who didn't want to go to Fukushima but had come to help voluntarily.

"..."

Bai Ge then explained the whole story to his teammates, and everyone was stunned by Bai Ge's bold move.

"If the time after midnight is the wedding celebration of the innkeeper of the Human Skin Inn, then countless ghosts will definitely be there. At that time, the Human Skin Inn will truly become a haunted house. If we check in as living people, the difficulty of the mission will increase significantly."

The ink stains on the Infinity Hood kept changing shape as he said in a deep voice, "So disguising yourself as a wedding procession to go in was indeed a bold move. The owner of the Human Skin Inn won't even realize that the bride has been switched until the banquet is over."

He pulled a strange Rubik's Cube from the lining of his tan trench coat.

[Item: Meme Cube]

[Quality: Rare]

[Special Effect: Can forcibly interfere with sentient ghosts, briefly controlling them]

[Note: As long as the host is bold enough, even Sadako can take maternity leave.]

From inside the Rubik's Cube, wriggling threads were released, like USB cables, and inserted into the head of the gong-beating ghost. The originally lifeless ghost instantly raised its head, and its eyes emitted a ghostly green light, like fireflies in the night.

Wuxian said, "I, Miss Wenliang, and Mr. Blood Demon have infiltrated the wedding procession to infiltrate and look after the witch. Xi Zeliang and this Brother Bai will continue to proceed according to the original plan, so that we can be rescued if we are discovered."

Both Nishizawa Ryo and the Witch serve as damage dealers in the team. Blood Demon and Infinite are not good at combat, but they excel at manipulation and intelligence analysis, using small forces to achieve big results; they are strategic hunters. Wen Liang, on the other hand, is proficient in reconnaissance and assassination. The team's personnel allocation is very reasonable.

With everything in place, everyone's attention now focused on the witch.

"Alright, alright, it's just wearing a wedding dress and pretending to be a bride, right?"

Unable to resist the gaze, the witch could only snort and pull out Dior 999, the ultimate lipstick, from her bag to apply to her lips. "Let me touch up my makeup first. This is my first time getting married."

"No need, time is of the essence."

Bai Ge interrupted the other person, saying, "Besides, you're getting into the bridal sedan chair in the underworld; this is a funeral procession, not a wedding."

Click.

With a flick of her wrist, the witch snapped the Dior 999 in two, leaving a large red mark on the edge of her lips that stretched all the way to the corner of her mouth.

She stared at Bai Ge with murderous eyes, while the other team members looked up at the sky, pretending not to see what was happening.

Bai Ge forced a dry laugh and quickly advised her, "Don't get excited. It's just pretending to be a bride. There's no request to go to Gotham City and become Batman's lifelong enemy."

The witch took a deep breath, clenched her fist, pointed at the face that had been modified by the system, and said through gritted teeth, "Don't let me recognize you on the street, or I'll send you to the ICU right here."

"..."

The paper effigy, acting as an inside man, naturally infiltrated the group to become the band conductor, but as it played, the melody began to sound strange. Even the Blood Demon and Infinite in the group discussed it in hushed tones.

"Wait a minute, why does this piece of music sound so much like the execution theme from Detective Conan?"

"Boss, change the disc!"

The wedding procession moved slowly, while Bai Ge and Xize Liang arrived early to scout out the Human Skin Inn, disguising themselves as lost hikers in the deep mountains and forests. Bai Ge even rolled in the mud, making him look more like a refugee who had escaped from working summer jobs in Syria.

"arrive."

This is an exquisite courtyard house surrounded by white walls and black tiles. From afar, you can see the brightly lit buildings overlooking the surrounding area, with many people in the shadows.

Two human-skin lanterns emitting a bluish light hung at the entrance, and two fierce-looking stone statues resembling tigers were placed there. Xi Zeliang stopped and frowned as he stared at the marble statues.

Bai Ge asked, "What's wrong?"

"This statue is a bit strange. Why would someone put a tiger statue in front of their house?"

"I have a bad feeling," Nishizawa Ryo said in a low voice.

"Don't overthink it. Of course you can't understand the art of the underworld if you use the mindset of the living world to try to understand it."

Bai Ge comforted me, saying, "Like me, I once dug up a strange wooden statue in the yard. It looked like a sea anemone, bat wings, and a twisted worm's body—a jumbled mess of pieces. And ever since I dug it up, I've been having strange nightmares. I had to take it to folk history experts to identify what it was. However, after studying and discussing it all night, they couldn't determine what kind of civilization this crudely shaped statue came from. But what they could say for sure was that it must be from some lost, unknown civilization. This discovery is enough to shock the archaeological world."

"and then?"

"Then the next day, I saw an item that looked exactly the same on a roadside craft stall. The following day, that expert was walking down the street when someone inexplicably put a sack over his head and beat him severely. The murderer is still at large."

"Hey, hey, hey, what do you mean the murderer is still unknown? You were the one who did it, weren't you?"

Ryo Nishizawa took a few deep breaths, trying to keep himself calm.

Suddenly, the door opened a crack, and a man wearing a mink hat, carrying a lantern, asked in a stiff tone with a sinister smile, "Oh, are you two guests here for a meal or to stay the night?"

"Stay at the hotel."

Bai Ge took out the money he had snatched from the ghost that had blocked the car and handed it over.

After taking the paper money, the man's smile widened, and he bowed and led the way inside, saying, "Alright, this way please, both of you."