Ch33 – Kaka, Kaka!

M1zushi: the title is the sound of the spider’s forelimbs rubbing/crashing at each other

The little spider opened its mouth, and with its teeth and claws, tore the paulownia flowers that fell on Wu Rong’s body to pieces, squatted on his shoulders like a crab, and swaggered at Fu Qing, as if to prove that it could also remove the “clutter” from his master’s body. 

The black rock tarantula is a solitary spider with a lonely and weird personality. It is extremely territorial and fierce. It only likes to live with its own kind, and it is extremely repulsive to the existence of non-family members. The personality of the Gu master who feeds this kind of Gu will also be affected, and they will become more and more repulsed by normal interactions, and eventually become a lone wolf for a lifetime just like the black rock tarantula. Unless you meet another Gu master who also raises black rock tarantulas.

It doesn’t work if the other other spiders. For the black rock tarantula, other spiders are food, at most they are dishes with different tastes.

Fu Qing lowered his eyes, completely ignoring the little spider, and naturally pulled Wu Rong up, away from the air-raid shelter, and the two stood side by side.

“The ones in the underground air-raid shelter may be human-faced spiders.” 

Wu Rong captured the black rock tarantula, read some old Miao words, and drove the little spider under stress back to the jar in the “Controlling Gu” chapter of the Gu King Song.

It is quite rainy in the Jianghuai area. The wooden buildings in the past were easy to get damp, attracting gu. Every cloudy day when it rains, they will drill out of the cracks and climb to the wall. There is a kind of spider with a flat body and the size of a copper coin that specializes in eating these gu.

It is very fast and walks close to the wall and is called a wall spider by the residents of Jianghuai. And because its legs are very long, three times as long as its body, they clump up like a ball of wool. It has a shy personality and is afraid of people. Once people stare at it, it will not move again. It looks like a shy little daughter-in-law, so it is also nicknamed Miss Si.

When leaving the village, Grandma Wu gave Wu Rong a book about Gu in addition to the Gu King Song, in which the people in the village traveled all over the country to find the records of gu, poisonous insects, poisonous flowers. It was unknown when the booklet was written but it was a thick stack, with ancient and traditional characters intertwined. Wu Rong didn’t finish it, and only read the content under the ‘Arachnids’ item because the little spider molted its shell.

During the Qing Dynasty, a Wu family traveled to the south of the Yangtze River and rented a house at an unusually cheap price. Unexpectedly, there was a disappearance case in the house. After the head of the family of three and his family was killed, they were hidden into the brick wall by the gangsters. Every time it was rainy, the wall would soak a lot of water and it was extremely damp. In the middle of the night, a long-legged spider resembling a wall weed crawled across the wall, with patterns on its back resembling human faces.

The gu ate the corpse, and also ate the resentment in the corpse. After the wall spider ate these bugs, its resentment would form a human face pattern on its back. The clearer the pattern, the bigger the wall spider, the heavier the resentment and yin energy in the body, and the eating habits will also change. It likes to eat the things that gather yin and resentment, living in isolation and erratic. Although it is highly toxic, it does not hurt people.

“The person in the underground air-raid shelter should be a ghost keeper, so he provoked the humam-faced spider.”

Compared with the black rock tarantula, the wall spider’s character is too shy. It must have smelled resentment for it to be able to chase people so enthusiastically. It wanted to come and have a look and eat a little. The human face is dark, but the face on the back is white. Normal people will be scared when they see such a big spider, not to mention in a dark place like an underground air raid shelter. At first sight, only a huge face can be seen floating towards them, and they must be very scared. 

But the human-faced spider does not eat people, and its personality is too gentle compared with the dog-tempered black rock tarantula. Any sharp noise would make it run away in panic. After catching the ghost breeder, it only eats the ghosts brought by him, and it will leave happily after the gluttonous meal. It is said that many of those who were killed and eaten by human-faced spiders were frightened to death by themselves.

“But how could there be such a large human-faced spider in the air-raid shelter?”

On the way back, Wu Rong pondered: “The human face behind it is clear, and the eyes are half-opened. Under normal circumstances, this kind of human-faced spider must be alive for at least two hundred years. However, Liuyang Vocational High School was not built for 200 years before its demise. Unless this underground air raid shelter is connected with a mass grave, or with a place of extreme grievance, it can’t promote the growth of the ‘human face’.”

Although, except in extreme cases, human face spiders will not actively hurt people, the meaning behind its appearance makes Wu Rong more alert. 

“Whatever it is, kill it.”

Fu Qing always looked cold and indifferent, as if no one or anything in the world could move him. Wu Rong was not a warm-hearted and talkative character and getting along with Fu Qing was quite comfortable. It was only when he had to look up at Fu Qing every time that Wu Rong realized that Fu Qing was actually taller than him. He didn’t feel it when he was outside, but when he entered the tiankeng, Wu Rong looked like a 1.6-meter high school girl, and this height difference was even more evident.

Wu Rong was not used to it. After all, he was very tall and rarely looked up to others.

“Hello, teacher!” 

“Hello, teacher.”

“Hello, Teacher Ye!”

After class, a swarm of students rushed out of the classroom and poured into the cafeteria. Wu Rong and Fu Qing walked side by side, attracting many people’s attention along the way. Teacher Ye Feixing returned from studying abroad and was specially invited by the new principal to teach English. The new principal of Liuyang Vocational High School used to be Ye Feixing’s teacher, and he accepted the job to repay his teacher’s kindness.

No matter where, handsome men and beautiful women will always attract everyone’s attention, especially in the high school period when self-awareness is sprouting and yearning for youthful love. Vocational high school girls are more mature and bold, and dare to strike up a conversation with their favorite teachers on the road, but Fu Qing ignores them all. Teacher Ye is always cold, although he seems to be a little colder now, it is normal. However, who is that girl next to him? 

It’s different from girls in vocational high schools who love to dress up, perm and dye their hair, use make up and change their school uniforms. The girl who was walking with Teacher Ye had pure black hair on her shoulders and wore a knee length white cotton skirt. The slightly ill-fitting school uniform on her upper body showed off her slender white neck, which looked like an arm that would break if twisted. The chin is sharp and the eyelashes are slightly raised. No makeup was applied to her face, her expression was slightly cold, but she had the dusty beauty of an ice sculpture beauty.

At first glance, she is a good student who loves to learn.

Is this a student from their school?

And she seemed to be talking to Teacher Ye, the teacher with a stern expression kept his eyes on her, listening intently, as if he was the most important person in front of him. 

It’s really… jealousy.

“Wú, Wú Róng.”

A timid female voice sounded, a very short girl who cowered like a bunny was holding a lunch box, hesitantly called out at the cafeteria door, and waited for Wu Rong to look over before she made up her mind to trot over. The girl was shy and introverted, she didn’t dare to look at Ye Feixing, so she just bowed her head and said, “Hi, teacher.”

“Róngróng, you, are you really Róngróng? Why aren’t you wearing glasses?” 

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

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“Rb.”

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“Is that so.” The girl forced a smile and said in a disappointed voice, “Then, let’s meet again tomorrow. Eat well.”

“We’ll talk about it tomorrow.”

His stomach growled, and Wu Rong pressed his stomach. It is definitely not a good thing that can make him feel fragrant.

Being rejected by Wu Rong seemed to be a big blow to the girl. After walking a long distance, Wu Rong felt a sense of turning around, and found the short-haired girl was still standing there with her lunch box in her arms. There were people coming and going around, but she seemed to be in another dimension, her eyes fixed on him, full of resentment. 

No, not staring at him, but looking at Fu Qing.

When she noticed that Wu Rong turned her head to look at her, the girl changed her face in an instant, her smile was like a flower, her cheeks were flushed, she smiled happily and shyly at him, and tried her best to mouth: ‘See you tonight’

“Want to kill?”

Fu Qing misunderstood his meaning and glanced at him casually: “If the spirit wanted to kill us, she would kill us, but it is better to kill us at night.” 

“No.”

Wu Rong shook his head: “I was just wondering why the tiankeng keeps repeating itself.”

The ghosts killed in Tiankeng No. 444 will be resurrected after the 15-day cycle has passed, and the tragedy will repeat after the next time the tester enters. These ghosts are not illusions. Those who test the tiankeng can get yin and ghost energy, and even some rare ghosts. The ghosts in the tiankeng will be trapped here forever, repeatedly killed and resurrected, just like the tiankeng is inexhaustible, they are inexhaustible treasures.

But nothing can last forever. There must be various reasons for the formation of this special reincarnation in Tiankeng 444. 

But Wu Rong just thought about it for a while, it has nothing to do with him. He came into Tiankeng firstly to hone his ability and secondly to make money.

Back to the staff dormitory with Fu Qing, many heavy lunch boxes were piled up at the door of Fu Qing, which were secretly put here by the students who admired him. Wu Rong put aside the tempting lunch boxes that whetted his appetite, and Fu Qing ate the rest. The taste of the food was very poor; it was difficult to swallow and it was only for satiety. During the meal, Wu Rong studied the live-streaming ghost.

It lives in a small paper man, but its index finger is long. Wu Rong fed it with concentrated ghost qi. Then he saw the soft little paper man standing up like a muscle, moving his arms and legs. It was different from the ordinary sacrificial paper man. There was only a downward curved line in the middle of the whole round paper face. After eating enough ghost qi, the curved line opened, and it was like a simple brush drawing, with round eyes accounting for half of the face

There were also three eyelashes above the eyes. 

Wu Rong stretched out his hand, and the little paper figurine obediently climbed onto his fingers, and Wu Rong put it on his shoulder.

The eyes of the little paper figurine are the camera lens, and Wu Rong can direct it to shoot or close it at will. The fabric at the waist moved slightly, and the little green snake, which had been in the wood carving for a long time, crawled out, with the tip of its tail wrapped around Wu Rong’s fingers, acting like a spoiled child, feeling a strange yin energy on its master’s shoulders, the Qinling Gu followed Wu Rong’s movements curiously. It climbed up, and the whole face of the little snake was close to the paper figurine. Sensing the yin energy on the paper figurine, the little green snake circled around the paper figurine comfortably, flicked its tongue and licked its face.

Here, Wu Rong, who just logged into the live broadcast platform from his mobile phone, logged into his account. Their live broadcast accounts in Tiankeng this time are all officially registered. Whoever starts the live broadcast, the live broadcast viewers will jump to the front. As soon as Wu Rong confirmed to start the live broadcast, tens of thousands of viewers poured into the live broadcast room, and the number was still growing rapidly.

The audience was then dumbfounded by the terrifying snake face that took over the entire screen. 

[Fucking, I just escaped from the No. 1 live broadcast room, and you showed me this underworld thing? ? ? ]

[Save the tester in live broadcast room No. 1! He is about to die after being chased by ghosts! ]

[Save the tester? Who the hell came to save me, what is this thing, why is it so red and bloody, could it be that the anchor was swallowed alive by a ghost?! ]

[What live broadcast room is this? Live Room 3? Would it be too exciting to kill two testers a day?] 

[The anchor can’t see the barrage when you post it.]

[If you can’t see me, I’ll post it too, it’s good to block the screen, come to the bullet screen to protect your body! ]

[Wuu. Did the anchors really get swallowed alive, and no one came to rescue them? ]

[Anchor No. 1 is purely trying to die. Whoever told him to put down the Bodhi seeds, he deserves it for daring to do so in the tiankeng.] 

[Can you have a little sympathy!]

[Laughing, can you watch the professional commentary? Professor Tong has already said that it is not a ghost that is chasing the anchor of No. 1 live broadcast room, but a kind of spider called a human-faced spider. It doesn’t eat people but eats ghosts. It was the No. 1 anchor who foolishly ran all the way to dig out human face balloons, and the spider stared at him only when he was greedy.]

[Professor Tong said that this kind of spider looks scary, but it is actually very timid and shy. You just need to make some sharp noises to scare it away. No. 1 anchor is still a big anchor of the Ghost Fights platform, and you don’t even know this? Killing me.]

[No, can Professor Tong explain this live broadcast room! Is this really a ghost swallowing people? What’s going on!] 

[Help, I’m about to suffocate, I won’t live broadcast until the anchor is swallowed alive by ghosts and digested. Why is this still live!]

“Spit it out.”

When Wu Rong was inattentive, the little green snake swallowed the paper figurine whole. This kind of thing that is full of pure ghost energy was the most suitable for the little green snake. Of course, it didn’t eat it, it just had a taste of it. And by the way, it checked whether this thing would hurt Wu Rong. As soon as Wu Rong spoke, it immediately spit out the paper doll obediently.

The paper figurine was ravaged into a ball, its surface was covered with unknown mucus, and it was pitifully sluggish. Before the small paper ball rolled to the ground and stretched out, the black rock tarantula that had just crawled out of the jar aggressively saw it and grabbed it. The little spider scrambled for a while, tapped its two forelimbs, carried the paper ball on its back, and walked around on the table with square strides like showing off its might. 

It was stimulated by the human-faced spider just now, and its viciousness has not gone down, not to mention that no matter in terms of size and toxicity, if it really fights, the little spider is really no match for the human-faced spider.

But the male black rock tarantula was an extremely conceited insect Gu that never admits defeat. Once it finds that it cannot defeat its opponent with strength, it will find another way – the male black rock tarantula has a racial instinct to ‘raise’ small prey on its back, and when it encounters an opponent that is difficult to defeat, it will vigorously display the food it keeps on its back to show its strength.

The paper ball was as big as a cherry, and it was just right. After walking around for two times, the black rock tarantula found that the paper ball was always moving around by itself, so it simply spun silk around it for a few more times.

The paper ball didn’t move at all. 

“It’s getting dark soon.”

Fu Qing said. He didn’t touch the food on the table, took out the mahogany sword after a few mouthfuls of rice, and wiped it carefully with a flannel cloth. Wu Rong noticed that some boxed meals that he had felt were wrong were left, and those close to the peach wood sword gradually turned into coke.

“Go back to the dormitory before the sun goes down completely.”

When the sun goes down, the entire Liuyang Vocational High School will be divided into dormitories, teaching buildings, office buildings, underground air-raid shelters, and cafeterias, five ghost areas. The invisible yin energy and distorted force fields will separate each area, and each area will be a ghost domain. And the dormitory building is a safe zone. As long as you sleep peacefully and don’t go out to wander around, most of them can sleep until dawn. 

Of course, if the tester is brave enough to go out in the middle of the night, he may gain more training through fighting, and if he is lucky, he may even find a good ghost. But this refers only to boys’ dormitories and staff dormitories. If a tester obtains the identity of a woman, leaving the dormitory door in the middle of the night was courting death.

In the tiankeng, only the first day is relatively safe.

From the early morning of the next day, the testers will receive the tasks issued by the Tiankeng consciousness, and they can choose to accept or refuse. But if you refuse three times, you must leave the Tiankeng immediately, otherwise you will die in three hours. If you accept the task and complete it, you will be rewarded by the tiankeng, and if you fail, you will suffer extremely cruel punishment.

[Girls’ dormitory] 

Wu Rong was silent, surrounded by low air pressure, and didn’t say a word until he was about to leave Fu Qing’s room. With a lift of the finger, the black rock tarantula reluctantly handed over the silk-wrapped paper ball and crawled back into the jar by itself after playing with the paper ball so much. Wu Rong twirled the thread off the paper ball in twos and twos, and the little paper figurine finally rebuilt its figure, crumpled back on Wu Rong’s shoulders, and the barrage in the live broadcast room frantically swiped the screen.

[The sky is so blue, the grass is so green, and the sun is so warm, I am alive!]

[The 320,461 comrades who survived together, are you all right!]

[Fuck, why are there more than 300,000 people? Do they all have special hobbies like me!] 

[Curiosity and special hobby]

[Curiosity +1]

[Am I the only one who is curious about the identity of the anchor! He must have gone through a brutal battle just now. Damn, he must be a strong man if he was swallowed by a beast and survived!]

[This is live broadcast room 3, right? The anchor I bet on before is a 1.8 meter hunk, am I going to make a fortune?!] 

[The betting that the anchor is a macho is the majority, well, unless you bet that the anchor is a dog, you really bet on this kind of ability to get rich overnight.]

[This old man has never overturned his car in more than ten years, and he was given the nickname Gambling Little White Dragon. I bet that the anchor is a soft girl, ALL IN! Win the young model in the clubhouse, lose and go to work in the sea!]

[Joke, could it be a girl who can come out of the bloody mouth alive? I do not believe.]

“That girl is looking at you just now.” 

The soft female voice sounded, which sounded very comfortable. Wú Róng spoke softly, with a cold feeling in the soft sweet end, like the gray blue sky in northern Europe, which was pure and clear beyond words.

“Be careful.”

[Fuck, fuck! Fuck! ! ! ]

[I declare that I am in love! This is my new wife, my wife!] 

[Miss, it’s really Miss, with such a nice voice, thank you for shooting!]

[You dicks, you can’t walk when you see a woman. I’m different, even if the lady can’t see my barrage, she can still see the love rockets I fired!]

“I refused her. Why does she resent you?”

“Ghosts are full of resentment.” 

Wu Rong pointed at the paper figurine, signaling that he was live broadcasting. Fu Qing nodded, not caring: “I will kill them myself.”

“It’s getting dark, let’s go.”

When Wu Rong and Fu Qing came out of the dormitory, they met the neighbors coming back from the opposite door. The opposite door was also a teacher, seeing Wu Rong and Fu Qing was like seeing a ghost, and the face was as wonderful as an overturned palette.

“Mr. Ye, you are committing a crime!” 

He forcefully stopped Fu Qing, smiled at Wu Rong, and said heartbroken, “How could you attack
your own students!”

Wu Rong: …

He even forgot that he was currently a girl in the eyes of others, so coming out of the teacher’s dormitory it was really easy to arouse reverie. As for Fu Qing, Fu Qing probably didn’t realize this kind of thing at all.

The two looked at each other in silence. Wú Róng’s silence seemed to the teacher to mean that the innocent female high school student had been tainted by a monster and was powerless to resist. And with their glance just now, it must be Teacher Ye threatening the girl. 

How can this be!

“I have to deal with this matter when I see it. Come on, follow me to the principal’s office!”

Seeing that an incident was about to break out, Fu Qing said lightly, “Twilight is coming.”

This sentence was like pressing the switch. The teacher did not move. His face muscles twitched ferociously, and his eyes were blank. Finally, he was confused and murmured: “It’s dusk, it’s dusk.” 

“Go back, go back.”

Then he turned cleanly back to the house and slammed the door.

“Let’s go.”

Fu Qing turned around and stared at Wu Rong, then suddenly bit his fingertips and pressed between his eyebrows. 

“A boy’s blood can block ghost energy.”

“After dusk, ghosts and evil spirits will increase.”

The warm temperature came from his forehead, like a cluster of small flames ignited there. It would not burn people, only bringing warmth to people. But this warmth was too terrible for Wu Rong. When he walked to the girls’ dormitory, the heat spread rapidly throughout his body in less than ten minutes, as if some chemical reaction had occurred. They were all burning with flames. If he didn’t know that he was firm-willed and kept his composure, he would probably sway as if he was drunk when he walked.

The strength of this blood was too great. 

After Fu Qing left, Wu Rong let out a sigh of relief and unbuttoned his collar impatiently. The scorching heat was still spreading in his body, as if he was looking for something, and also seemed to want to handcuff his cold and ghostly aura. The hot little paper figurine who had been sitting on his shoulders hurriedly ran away, but the Zhong Gu became agitated. It was originally yin within yin, especially after hatching.

Even a woman can’t bear such yin energy for a long time, the Zhong Gu and the Wu family can be regarded as a symbiotic relationship, and the weakness of the main body will also affect the Zhong Gu. Therefore, at the same time as the most yin, the Zhong Gu can naturally detect yang, which can help the Wu family find a lover with the most yang energy to neutralize the yin.

The Wu family who inherited the Zhong Gu species in the past was notoriously sentimental, and usually had many lovers. Men who maintain their boyish bodies have the strongest yang energy, but the effect will be greatly reduced after using it once. It was also a last resort for the Wu family to linger in the flowers. Those who are loyal and only have one partner usually overdrew their lives due to excessive Yin Qi and aged prematurely.

Fortunately, the Zhong Gu is just an egg now, and because of the influence of the left-arm ghost, Wu Rong can still bear the influence of restlessness. After entering the dormitory, there was a burst of cloudiness, and the hotness eased a little, and it was no longer difficult. 

At the same time, it was completely dark outside. It was clear that there was still light from the setting sun just now, but now the sky was as gloomy as ink, and there was a trace of ominous atmosphere in the thick darkness.

Both male and female students of Liuyang Vocational High School lived in the same dormitory building. Boys lived on the first to third floors, and girls lived on the fourth to sixth floors. Divided into the central stairs and the stairs in the corridors on both sides, girls go on both sides, boys go in the middle. There is a large iron door on the central staircase leading to the fourth floor from the third floor, and the iron door will be firmly locked after dusk at night.

Wu Rong went up to the fourth floor along the corridor stairs. Wu Rong, or Wú Róng’s dormitory is on the fourth floor.

It is the dormitory No. 444 where the first missing girl ‘Fangfang’ lived in the records. 

The old wooden door, the dormitory number written on the white paint, was stained with something dirty, brown, red and black.

Wu Rong had just stood at the door before he had time to knock on it. With a creak, the door was pushed open from the inside, and a girl laughed softly from the dormitory.

“Wú Róng, you’re back.”