Although She’s Only a Level 1 Noob, She’s Still Incredibly Powerful - Chapter 20 Part 1

Li Gushu was poisoned?

This news was so shocking that she ignored the fact that Hei Chunhua had violated her safety zone.

Bai Qiuye felt the entire world fall silent.

Her thickest thigh had actually been poisoned by corpse poison.

Bai Qiuye and Hei Chunhua exchanged glances.

“What do we do?”

Hei Chunhua raised his hand and made a shushing gesture.

“We can’t let her notice for now.”

Bai Qiuye turned around and stared at the back of Li Gushu’s head. Her ponytail swayed rhythmically in front of her eyes.

But it was swaying up and down.

Because Li Gushu was jumping up and down.

She didn’t know anything about it. She would occasionally turn around to observe her surroundings with a serious expression.

Bai Qiuye: “…”

Li Gushu had just finished her first task. When she returned to his room on the first floor, there was a scratch on the left side of her face.

Bai Qiuye originally thought that Li Gushu had accidentally scratched herself.

Now that she thought about it, Li Gushu was probably carelessly scratched when she was fighting the zombie she spoke of.

Bai Qiuye thought back to the zombie movies she had seen before.

After being poisoned, they would use glutinous rice.

She didn’t know if glutinous rice would have any effect in this copy.

The three of them had already reached the edge of the patio. The sound was getting louder and louder. They could now clearly tell who was casting the spell.

An Eight Trigrams Formation was arranged on the ground in the centre of the patio.

A large jar was placed in the centre of the Eight Trigrams Formation.

The jar was extremely large, enough to fit three large wine jars.

The jar’s seal had already been opened. Rice grains would occasionally spill out from the jar.

Two red candles burned brightly in front of the jar, illuminating the surroundings with an orange glow.

The patio was surrounded by houses on all four sides. Dozens of ropes extended down from the second floor, intersecting at the centre of the Eight Trigrams Formation.

There were talismans hanging from the ropes.

Black talismans, red talismans, and circular imprints on the talismans.

Under the chilling wind, the talismans kept rustling.

A middle-aged man wearing a dark grey robe stood in the center of the Eight Trigrams Formation. He held a bunch of talismans in his hand and kept chanting.

Bai Qiuye’s heart trembled.

The dark-coloured talisman paper is used to exorcise ghosts, while yellow talisman paper is used to pray to gods.

All the talismans hanging on the patio, including the one in the middle-aged man’s hand, were dark in color and had small red circles printed on them.

These small circles represented the “Money of the Afterlife”, which was also used to bribe ghosts.

At the same time, she realized that the ghosts that had returned from the various rooms and apartments were all standing outside the Eight Trigrams formation.

They were heading in the same direction, circling around the Eight Trigrams Formation. Their expressions were numb, as if their minds had been taken away.

The master inside turned a blind eye to these ghosts. Every time he chanted an incantation, he would place a piece of talisman paper on the candle and burn it. His face would flicker under the light of the fire.

Li Gushu turned her head, her complexion was already pale white, and there were dark spots under her eyes.

She mouthed.

“This master doesn’t seem to be exorcising ghosts.”

If it was an exorcism, there was no need to summon back a ghost that had already left the apartment.

Bai Qiuye nodded.

She had her suspicions when she saw the talisman paper, and when she saw the ghosts circling around the Eight Trigrams Formation, she was almost certain.

When she was in the newbie dungeon, she had nothing but time.

Every time the task reset, she would chat with the witch in the village when she entered the next day’s task.

Once, the witch told her about a Five Ghosts Fortune Spell.

Set up a secret altar, put five bowls of rice inside, and then put in items that were stained with the victim’s aura, such as fingernails and hair.

When the spell was cast, the rice would splash out.

When Bai Qiuye heard this, she thought it was witchcraft.

The witch told her that the Five Ghosts Fortune Spell wasn’t really witchcraft, because it was actually the ghosts that were bringing wealth.

As long as you remember to do good deeds and don’t forget your previous promise, there won’t be a big problem.

But at the same time, the smaller the risk, the smaller the reward.

So, the witch told her that there were many other variations besides the Five Ghosts Fortune Spell.

If she wanted the spell to be effective, the ghosts that were cast either had to have heavy resentment or obsession, or they had to die an unnatural death.

If five wasn’t enough, she could increase the number.

But doing so was also extremely dangerous.

Even if the caster had a high level of cultivation, it was still very easy for the spell to backfire.

After seeing the Eight Trigrams Formation set up by the master, Bai Qiuye immediately remembered this saying.

However, her parents were both businessmen, and she had been influenced by them since she was young. She remembered everything that involved money very clearly.

The altar in the middle of the Eight Trigrams Formation, as well as the talisman hanging from the rope, matched the witch’s words perfectly.

Li Gushu jumped forward again.

“Something’s wrong with these ghosts”

Bai Qiuye pulled her back.

“Don’t go there yet”

Li Gushu was a bit surprised, her expression became a bit strange.

“My feet aren’t under my control”

Right at this time, one of the ghosts that was originally looking straight ahead turned to look at Bai Qiuye’s direction.

The master seemed to have sensed something and also turned his head.

Bai Qiuye hurriedly pulled Li Gushu back and hid behind the wall, not letting the master notice them.

While she was pulling Li Gushu, she was met with resistance.

Li Gushu herself didn’t seem to understand why.

“What’s wrong with me?”

As soon as she closed his mouth, Bai Qiuye slapped her across the face. Li Gushu immediately groaned in pain.

Bai Qiuye’s other hand quickly covered her mouth.

Li Gushu leaned against the wall, her expression twisted from the pain.

There was a lot of raw glutinous rice stuck to the scratch on the left side of her face.
A black and red mark seeped through the glutinous rice, it was the Corpse Poison on Li Gushu’s face that was absorbed by the glutinous rice.

Li Gushu was in so much pain that she couldn’t speak, she looked at Bai Qiuye with tears in her eyes.

“Just now I…”

Bai Qiuye took out another handful of rice from her pocket and pressed it against her face.

“Don’t talk, the rice is falling”

Li Gushu obediently shut her mouth.

After the rice was pressed, it didn’t hurt as much as before.

Li Gushu endured for a bit, then nodded and made an OK gesture.

They walked a few steps away from the patio, Li Gushu lowered her voice and said: “Before, I couldn’t control my legs”

Bai Qiuye said: “You don’t have to be so humble, you can remove the ‘couldn’t’, you were like a jumping frog just now.”

Hei Chunhua said: “You’ve been poisoned.”

Li Gushu touched her face: “My face wasn’t scratched by a zombie, it might have rubbed against the furniture in the room.”

Hei Chunhua said: “Fortunately, otherwise you would have turned into a zombie.”

Li Gushu sighed in relief.

Hei Chunhua suddenly said: “But it’s not over, your Corpse Poison hasn’t been completely removed.”

“I know.” Li Gushu said, “I really wanted to walk into the patio before, if it wasn’t for Bai Qiuye holding me back, I might have already gone in. But now, even with the glutinous rice, I still have this feeling, it’s just a lot better than before.”

“It seems like the master’s Eight Trigrams Formation affected you.” Bai Qiuye said, “You can’t go to the patio, go to the duty room first, use that uncle’s kettle and cook a bowl of glutinous rice porridge.”

Li Gushu nodded, then suddenly asked curiously: “How did you bring the glutinous rice in? This isn’t a special item.”

Bai Qiuye said: “I got it from Room 303.”

After the yellow-haired man from Room 303 was haunted by the headless female corpse, he probably became desperate and bought a lot of glutinous rice at home.

Although glutinous rice had no effect on headless female corpses, it was a powerful weapon against zombies.

Bai Qiuye said: “Too bad there aren’t any peach trees nearby, otherwise I could make two peach wood swords.”

Li Gushu said: “You even know how to do this.”

Bai Qiuye said modestly: “I know a little.”

Hei Chunhua pretended to ask casually: “Don’t tell me you know how to draw talismans too.”

Bai Qiuye felt a rare sense of superiority, but still continued to say modestly: “I know a little, but it’s useless.”

Even if it was a Level 1 talisman, it was still a talisman, it was better than nothing.

The three of them walked towards the security room, after applying the glutinous rice on Li Gushu’s wound, her steps were much more normal than before, ehe maintained the frequency of jumping every three steps.

When they passed by the corner, she suddenly exclaimed: “There was no fish tank just now.”

Bai Qiuye looked over and saw that the protruding ground she had noticed before was blocked by the fish tank.

It should be said that the fish tank perfectly covered the entire clean square tile.

“There’s a card inside.” Bai Qiuye pointed at the coral and said: “It looks similar to the one Ah Long gave us.”

Hei Chunhua walked over to take a look: “Liu Xiangquan, Post: Night Watchman.”

Li Gushu said: “Liu Xiangquan? One of the residents told me that the person who drowned during the night patrol was called Liu Xiangquan.”

Bai Qiuye said: “The picture on the card … one of the people who walked out of the room just now looked like this.”

“He’s probably our senior?” Li Gushu said: “Actually, I’ve been trying to figure out how he died. After all, our second job is to patrol, so figuring out his situation can help us avoid a lot of danger. ”

Bai Qiuye felt that Li Gushu’s words made a lot of sense, she pointed at the duty room not far away and said: “When Liu Xiangquan came out of the room where we gathered, I saw him walk towards the duty room.”

Li Gushu said: “That’s good, let’s ask him on the way.”