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Published at 10th of July 2018 03:20:23 AM


Chapter 268

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Chapter 268.1: Human or Ghost 
Tang Doudou woke up from the cold. She only found out after she opened her eyes that she was in the middle of a small brook. The chilly brook water was currently flowing over her. This was the cold feeling that had woken her up.

What was this place?

Tang Doudou got up to look around in confusion. All she remembered was that Shen Moru had taken her hostage. Afterwards, she wasn’t able to hear or see anything. Following that, a voice had told her to walk forward, straight forward, and then… then what happened?

She couldn’t recall anything after that no matter how hard she tried.

She was just about to lift her hand to rub her aching head when she heard a clank. Something seemed to have fallen onto a rock.

Tang Doudou looked down and saw the thumb ring that was almost about to be flushed away by the water.

Without thinking, she immediately bent down to pick it up. However, once she grabbed it, anger flashed through her eyes and she lifted her hand to throw it. In the end, she wasn’t able to bring herself to do it and put it in her chest.

When she lifted her head again, she found that she was in a valley. There was the fragrant scent of flowers and the sounds of nature all around. It was very calm and peaceful.

Tang Doudou touched her chest. She remembered that a knife had stabbed into her.

However, for some reason she now seemed fine.

When she looked down, she saw that there were bloodstains on her clothes, indicating that she hadn’t remembered wrong!

However, she couldn’t understand what had happened. Tang Doudou stood up. It was fortunate that it was still summer, because although her clothes had gotten wet, it wasn’t very cold and was just slightly cool.

When she reached the shore, she took off her outer layers in order to avoid getting a cold. Each layer of clothing had a hole where it covered the chest, which was even more proof that someone had stabbed her. However, not only was there no pain coming from her chest, when she checked, there was no injury either.

It was currently still very sunny out, so Tang Doudou washed away the blood on the clothes, then laid them out on the rocks near the shore and waited for them to dry so that she could put them back on.

As she waited, she looked around again. When she confirmed that there was no one around, she sighed heavily. She thought earlier that she was done for. In the end, she didn’t die, but ended up coming to this random place that didn’t have a single person in sight. It was seriously terrible luck.

Since she had taken off her clothes, there was no place to put the thumb ring. The red string had also broken, so she could only wear the ring on her finger.

When she got hungry, she filled her belly with a bit of water. Her clothes only dried after the sun had set.

After putting the clothes back on, Tang Doudou started wandering along the brook.

Although it was a valley, there was definitely a way out. Most of the time, valleys would assemble around a brook, so following the brook downstream was the best way to get out.

However, after walking for a long time, she noticed that something was off.

There were no sounds coming from the surroundings at all!

This was way too strange!

The fact that there were no people around could be explained, but there weren’t even sounds of birds or bugs, much less the sounds of any animals… It was terrifyingly quiet!

The only sound was the babble of the flowing brook and her own heartbeat. Tang Doudou was bewildered. Where exactly was this place?

How did she get here?

Where did Mu Ye and Baili Yu go? And Shen Moru? Had they managed to kill Shen Moru? What if she ended up encountering Shen Moru here? Wouldn’t she be done for?

Fudge. She didn’t even feel anything when death was brought up now. It had become as regular as meals.

Forget it, she’ll just plan as she went.

As of now, she could only leave the things that she couldn’t resolve lie. She didn’t even want to bother thinking about matters like the one regarding Baili Yu.

Feng Wu was right. She had a tortoise-like personality and always tried to run away whenever she encountered things. She would only feel the danger when there was no place left to run and finally start facing the issue and trying to resolve it!

That laziness seemed to come from her bones. Every time she resolved to do something, she would push it off again and again. Even after so much time, she still hadn’t been able to change this habit of hers.

She sighed again as she looked at the darkening sky. Her mood was extremely heavy.

As of now, she could still see the road beneath her feet, but from now on, which road should she take?

“Zhizhi…”

Her brows had started to furrow when a clear cry appeared in the valley.

It was Lil’ Gray!

Tang Doudou recognized that sound. It was definitely correct!

Why was he here? If he was here, did that mean Mu Ye was here as well?

When Tang Doudou’s thoughts got to here, she immediately threw all those complicated emotions to the back of her head and ran in the direction of that cry.

That ‘zhizhi’ sound was sometimes clear but also sometimes very faint, so she couldn’t tell how far away she was from Lil’ Gray.

The only good thing was that the sound never stopped. If it had, there was no way Tang Doudou would know where to go.

Since her inner strength had recovered, she flew over using qinggong. The sound soon became a lot clearer.

This was already very far away from the brook. There were a lot of thorny undergrowth ahead. Lil’ Gray’s cries were coming from that direction.

It was pretty dark so Tang Doudou couldn’t really see what was in the brambles. She tried calling, “Lil’ Gray? Lil’ Gray, is that you?”

That sound suddenly disappeared completely.

Tang Doudou knitted her brows. What was going on?

Could it be that it wasn’t Lil’ Gray?
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira

 

Chapter 268.2: Human or Ghost
This area was strange so Tang Doudou stayed on high alert. She snapped off a tree branch that was about the thickness of three fingers before slowly approaching that side. The forest of brambles was very dense and the thorns were very sharp. Tang Doudou only managed to advance a few steps before was no longer able to proceed. She could only try channeling her inner strength into her palm and then onto the branch. When she saw that the tree branch started to glow with red light, joy lit up her face. So it wasn’t anything hard!

Then she swung the branch towards the brambles. The faint red light was like the sharp light of a blade. The brambles surrounding her were instantly cut apart and opened up a narrow path for her to squeeze through.

Tang Doudou then put away her inner strength. She didn’t know what laid ahead so the more inner strength she could preserve, the better.

She passed through that narrow path. Once she got out of the forest of brambles, she suddenly slipped and almost fell off the cliff.

She hastily steadied herself. Why would there be such a steep cliff in this valley?

When she saw that there were waves of ocean water beneath the cliff, she realized that she had come to the edge of Cerulean Mountain, the place where it met the sea!

She carefully moved her legs back before looking down again and glancing around. There was no mistake! This was where the ‘zhizhi’ sound had come from. However, why was it a cliff!?

How could Lil’ Gray be on a cliff? There wasn’t even a place to stand here!

Tang Doudou rolled her eyes. It couldn’t be that she had been hallucinating?

She couldn’t see Lil’ Gray and that ‘zhizhi’ sound had also disappeared, so she could only turn around and head back. Suddenly, she noticed a movement out of the corner of her eye. When she looked to the left, she saw that there was a black shadow.

What was that?

The sky was too dark so Tang Doudou could only see a vague outline. It seemed like… it seemed to be a person!

“Hey? Are you dead or alive ah?” Tang Doudou shouted towards in that direction.

The appearance of a person stuck in the brambles next to a cliff caused Tang Doudou’s hair to rise on end from the creepiness. A thought suddenly occurred to her. It couldn’t be a ghost right?

Right after that thought emerged, that unidentified figure suddenly moved.

The area that looked to be its back or its abdomen bulged up and started squirming. Tang Doudou was so frightened her heart almost jumped out of her throat!

What the hell was that!?

Tang Doudou now regretted her actions. She itched to just slap herself for doing something so brainless out of curiosity. Now it was just great! She ended up encounter this strange thing… It won’t do, she had better run while that thing was still stuck.

She turned to go back through the narrow path she had made.

However, just as she was about to walk through the brambles, she heard the ‘zhizhi’ sound again. This time it was very close so she was certain it was Lil’ Gray. However, when she recalled the thing that was moving around on top of that black figure, it occurred to her that this might be that thing’s doing so it was best to be careful.

As she thought about this, she poured her inner strength into the tree branch again and then slowly crouched down in the forest of brambles.

She started at the black figure outside without blinking as she muttered to herself, “If it really was Lil’ Gray, then would that black figure be…”

When her thoughts reached this point, she became very worried and couldn’t be bothered to care whether that thing was a monster or not. She waved the branch and started walking forwards quietly.

Just as she was getting close, a gray figure suddenly dug its way out from the black figure’s back. It was Lil’ Gray.

The moment he got out, he jumped towards Tang Doudou, then started crying something while gesturing frantically.

In reality, he didn’t need to do this for Tang Doudou to figure out who was hanging over there. It was definitely Mu Ye.

She tried to sooth Lil’ Gray by saying, “Don’t worry, I know it’s him. You stay here alright? I’ll go get him down.”

After she said that, she placed Lil’ Gray on the ground and carefully moved to approach Mu Ye.

The area where he was hanging was extremely dangerous. It was right below the cliff. A few outgrowing branches of bramble had caught him, but it seemed like a gust of wind was enough to sweep him off. It was seriously a dangerous situation.

Tang Doudou was already standing on the edge of the cliff but still couldn’t quite reach Mu Ye. The sun had already set so it was too dark to see clearly. She didn’t dare to move rashly in fear of accidentally causing Mu Ye to fall all the way to the bottom of the cliff.

She started panicking since these brambles probably wouldn’t be able to support Mu Ye for much longer. This area was next to the sea so a gust of sea wind would likely blow him off as well.

“What do I do? What can I do!?” Tang Doudou paced back and forth anxiously along the edge of the cliff and tried to calm down in order to think of a good idea. Then she considered how Mu Ye would save her if she had been the one hanging off the edge.

The iron chain!

Mu Ye’s iron chain! He’d definitely grab her with that and then pull her back up.

When her thoughts reached this point, she became depressed again. Mu Ye had an iron chain, but she didn’t!

Lil’ Gray seemed to sense her anxiety as he jumped out and pointed towards her head.

Tang Doudou was too anxious to pay attention to Lil’ Gray, but then she recalled how smart he was and it occurred to her that he might be trying to tell her what to do.

When her thoughts reached this point, she looked over in the direction Lil’ Gray was pointing. Joy immediately lit up her face. “Lil’ Gray, you’re a genius!”

After she finished speaking, she started talking off her clothes and ripping them apart. Then she started linking them together to make a rope.

She only stopped when all she had left was her inner garments. She tugged on the rope to see how strong it was, then leaped up to the tree branch above her.

The thing Lil’ Gray had pointed at earlier was this tree branch. She tied one end of the rope on this branch and then tied the other end around her waist before slowly heading down the cliff.
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira





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