Cannon-Fodder Heiress Turns the Tables by Fortune-Telling-Chapter 258 - 257: This Place Really Is Haunted

"Trouble everyone to help search for the bride, there will be a hefty reward for finding her!"

No matter if it was a spirit or a human, their eyes lit up at the mention of a hefty reward, making Yun Ran feel a surge of adrenaline.

Walking out with them, Yun Ran left the courtyard, and the place that had been an ancient street just moments before was now a forest.

"This can even switch maps at leisure."

It wasn’t until Yun Ran recognized the familiar figure of the thief carrying off the bride that she felt things were getting complicated.

"Is that Zhonglisu?"

[Host, you are not mistaken, that is indeed Zhonglisu!]

When she saw the wedding guests from earlier suddenly pulling out large knives and chasing the kidnapper...

Yun Ran couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on, they were originally here to look for missing tourists and lost sheep, and now they’ve turned into kidnappers.

[Host, this seems somewhat similar to those large-scale real-life games I’ve seen before, where everyone has their own fixed roles and the players are all predetermined.]

"It’s not just similar, this is it, and who knows what the person who created this illusion wants!"

Yun Ran wasn’t ’invited’, so she was currently an undefined extra, Passerby A. Without understanding the ins and outs of this illusion, she couldn’t directly make a move.

If she accidentally triggered some sort of self-destruct mechanism, she wouldn’t be able to bear the consequences.

Just as Yun Ran was about to take out Little Paperman to cheat, she saw Little Paperman’s dispirited state, slumping lifelessly into Yun Ran’s palm.

Little Paperman’s milky voice sounded: "Master, I’m dizzy~"

Yun Ran: ...

Doesn’t she know her own Little Paperman, who is supposed to be resilient?

Now, however, it has become a picture of weakness, leaving Yun Ran no choice but to store Little Paperman away. This place truly is cursed.

But her pace didn’t slow down at all, she tightly followed those chasing after Zhonglisu.

She had to help if necessary; she couldn’t just stand by and watch him get slashed.

Yun Ran glanced at the knives in the hands of the people and spirits, their cold gleam indicating real sharpness, cutting through bone would likely be like slicing through tofu.

Zhonglisu was fast and vanished from sight in the blink of an eye, leaving his pursuers to scatter in search.

[Host, that youngster is in your 3 o’clock direction.]

Yun Ran looked towards the 3 o’clock direction and saw that most of those who had morphed from spirits were chasing after him, while the real people seemed to scurry about headlessly.

Yun Ran also picked up her pace, she had been controlling her speed before to stay in the middle of the crowd.

Now, there was no need to hide, and she sped up. It wasn’t long before she heard the sounds of an intense fight.

The bride, dressed in red, was tossed aside under a tree by Zhonglisu, unbound and free, yet she just squatted there foolishly without any thought of escaping.

Yun Ran was rendered speechless for a moment.

Zhonglisu had several cuts on his body, the smell of blood was heavy.

The spirits seemed to be stimulated by the scent of blood, growing even more fierce, with every slash aiming to be fatal.

Just as Zhonglisu’s arm was about to be sliced off, Yun Ran rushed forward with a flying kick, kicking away the knife from the Leopard Spirit’s hand.

Then, she pulled Zhonglisu over to dodge another spirit’s attack.

It was only then, being close, that Yun Ran could see clearly: there was a red mark on Zhonglisu’s forehead.

He completely failed to recognize Yun Ran, showing no ounce of reaction for the rescue, his face still bore the look of hatred towards the spirits he had just been battling.

Yun Ran: ...

Damn, at this moment, she really wanted to slap someone, be it the kidnappers or the kidnapped, they all completely ignored her.

"Are they unanimously ostracizing me?!"

Ginsengfruit had no idea what to say in the current situation, as their host was less conspicuous than even Passerby A, no different from an invisible person uninvolved in the proceedings.

Another large cleaver swept towards Yun Ran’s face, she could even hear the sound of the cleaver cutting through the air.

If that cleaver made contact, she would seriously lose half her life.

Yun Ran couldn’t bring herself to lethally attack these spirits without understanding the situation first.

She could only knock them out swiftly, then using vines, tie them all up.

Seeing those who had attacked her bound, Zhonglisu picked up a cleaver from the ground, intending to finish off the spirits subdued by Yun Ran.

Frightened, Yun Ran once again sent Zhonglisu flying with a kick two meters away.

"Are you trying to work me to death?!"

Regardless of whether this is a game or if there is some special mark, if you kill other people or spirits, the cause and effect will still take hold.

It wouldn’t matter that this place is within an Illusion, there wouldn’t be any special treatment.

Zhonglisu, kicked to the ground, twisted his features in pain, but this pain also cleared his head for a moment.

Looking at Yun Ran not far away, and the tied-up spirits,

Zhonglisu looked desperately anxious, gnashing his teeth and shouting to Yun Ran, "Run, there’s something wrong with this place!"

After speaking, his eyes as they looked towards Yun Ran again clouded with confusion, as if he didn’t know what he was looking at.

Yun Ran: ...

No wonder all their Death Divinations pointed to this outcome, with their current behavior, it was no surprise they weren’t tripped up by their own actions.

After some thought, Yun Ran took out her ancestral Magic Artifact ’Immortal Binding Rope’ and started to tie up Zhonglisu’s hands.

"Now it seems I have to go around tying people up, tie one after another into a chain, and see how they can still court death!"

[Host, is it like those prisoners exiled in ancient times, linked together?]

"Pretty much, I’ve already detected the location of another Buddha Bead, I’ll head there first."

Although Zhonglisu ignored Yun Ran, he couldn’t ignore the rope tied by Yun Ran.

With his hands securely bound, a look of confusion crossed his face, as if he couldn’t figure out how he ended up tied up.

Yun Ran picked up a large cleaver from the ground, slung it over her shoulder, and led the tied-up Zhonglisu into a foggy area.

Even though she was getting closer to the Buddha Beads, the visibility here was very low.

"Everyone come out, what skill is there in skulking around and playing tricks!"

Master Jiechen’s somewhat breaking voice came from not too far away.

Seeing the usually good-natured Master Jiechen so upset, the situation didn’t look too good.

Following the voice, the fog suddenly dispersed, as if stepping into another space entirely.

The place was engulfed in swirling sands, just looking at it could make one feel utterly hopeless.

Master Jiechen was a mess, his monk’s robe torn and ragged, far from the high monk he usually appeared to be.

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