Although She’s Only a Level 1 Noob, She’s Still Incredibly Powerful - Chapter 9 Part 2

[First task

Work matter: Bone washing.

　
Work progress: 2/2 (completed)

　
Work reward: 5 Survival Coupons.

　
Proficiency of Professional Skill [Bone Washing]: increase by 5%.]

“He must be washed and then put in a coffin.” Widow Du said, “You have to watch over him tonight.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the second task appeared on the terminals of Bai Qiuye and the other two.

[Second Task.

Working hours: Before 06:00.

Work matter: Guard the coffin.

Work location: Ancestral Hall in the village.

Work reward: 15 survival coupons.

Punishment for absenteeism: Strict discipline, deduction of 200 survival coupons. The maximum task rating will be reduced by 30 points.

Work progress: 0/2.]

Widow Du said blankly, “You can go now.”

Mo Jie asked, “Sister Du, we saw a paper figurine in your house earlier. Do you know where it came from?”

Widow Du’s eyes moved slightly. “Paper figurine? I don’t know.”

Bai Qiuye looked at her with pitiful eyes. “Think about it again.”

Widow Du was stared at by her burning eyes and moved back without a trace. “You can go to the ancestral hall and take a look.”

The three of them suddenly saw the light of hope, and half of the great stone in their hearts was lifted.

Widow Du said lightly, “If you are ready, you can go. I have already placed the coffin in the ancestral hall.”

After she finished speaking, she walked away calmly, like a silent ghost.

Mo Jie looked at her back and said, “I feel that she is still human.

Bai Qiuye also nodded.

Although the book found in the well was very suspicious that Widow Du was not human.

But Bai Qiuye had known her for thirteen years, and her intuition told her that Widow Du was a living person.

At that time, Liu He asked, “Where is Fu Yao?”

When they left earlier, Fu Yao had leaned against the corner of the living room to rest.

When they came back, the first thing they did was to communicate with Widow Du, and then they realised that Fu Yao was not in the living room on the first floor.

Bai Qiuye looked up. “She’s upstairs?”

They went upstairs and found a black thing lying in the hallway, with blood splattered on the wall next to it.

It was a torn cat’s leg.

It was cold and looked like it had been cut off a long time ago.

Bai Qiuye picked up the cat’s leg, her eyes dark.

Black Cat was probably dead.

Liu He looked around and returned. “I can’t find Fu Yao.”

Mo Jie said worriedly, “Something has happened to the cat. I am afraid that she is also in a very dangerous situation now. And Chen Chen, his chances of survival are not good. ”

Liu He was silent for a moment. “You’re really worried about her.”

Mo Jie smiled awkwardly. After going through the Gates of Hell, he didn’t know why, but he wasn’t as hypocritical as before.

He hadn’t expected Liu He to be able to see through his transformation at a glance.

Mo Jie said, “You’ve also become more talkative.”

Liu He wanted to say something, but hesitated. “I’ll go to the courtyard and look for her.” With that, he went downstairs.

Mo Jie turned to greet Bai Qiuye, only to find her standing in front of Widow Du and her husband’s bedroom door, staring into the house.

He went over and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Bai Qiuye didn’t turn around. She pointed to the wedding photo above the bed. “It looks a bit strange.”

Mo Jie frowned. “Where?”

Bai Qiuye came in and stepped on the bed. She raised her hand and picked up the photo frame.

She opened the photo frame and took out the strange wedding photo. She ran downstairs and rushed into the kitchen.

Mo Jie didn’t know what had happened, so he followed closely.

Bai Qiuye took a spoonful of water and poured it on the photo. She rubbed the corner of the photo with her fingers.

After a while, she saw that the corner of the photo had been neatly separated, leaving a gap in the middle.

Mo Jie looked over in surprise. “There’s another layer underneath?”

Bai Qiuye tore off the top of the photo and saw that there was an identical wedding photo underneath.

The moment they saw this photo, their pupils shrank.

The photo stuck to the bottom was covered with dark red stains that looked like splattered blood.

In the photo, the man’s face was a mess and his features couldn’t be seen clearly. From the marks, it looked like the photo had been ruthlessly slashed with a knife.

Bai Qiuye muttered to herself, “I didn’t notice that before.

Hearing the disappointment in Bai Qiuye’s voice, Mo Jie couldn’t help but comfort her.

“Our attention was focused on the corpse and the paper figure. We could not have noticed it.”

Bai Qiuye touched the photo with her hand, her heart in turmoil.

She wasn’t talking about today, she was talking about the thirteen years before.

It wasn’t that she hadn’t opened the picture frame to check, but she had never thought that there would be a hidden layer.

She had always thought that Widow Du loved her husband very much. Because she had seen Widow Du wipe the picture frame many times.

But the clues she saw today made this matter strange.

Besides, Widow Du’s reaction to her husband’s death had always been so cold. It was only then that Bai Qiuye became suspicious.

“She hates her husband?” Mo Jie said, “Could it be that Chen Chen guessed right and she really killed Du Youfu?”

At that moment, the bell rang in the living room.

It was three o’clock in the morning.

The moment the bell rang, their bodies stiffened.

The lower half of their bodies didn’t seem to be theirs anymore. They tried their best for a long time before they regained their senses.

Bai Qiuye reached out her hand and found that it wasn’t just her palm that had turned to paper.

Her entire arm and calf had also turned into the texture of white cardboard.

[Current Paperization Level: 40%]

Mo Jie said, “Time waits for no one. Let’s go to the ancestral hall.”

Liu He also rushed back from the other corner of the house, picked up Du Youfu’s bones, and went out with them.

Before Widow Du left, she pointed them in the direction of the Ancestral Hall. The journey was smooth and they soon approached the ancestral hall.

Mo Jie pushed up his glasses. “It’s too smooth. I’m suddenly not used to it.”

Compared to jumping back and forth between life and death, even though the village was empty and terrifying, he felt a rare calmness.

Unlike the other simple buildings in the village, the ancestral hall was exceptionally beautiful, and the memorial tablet hall in the middle even more so.

The vermilion door was very imposing, and on the door frame was a plaque engraved with the words ‘Millennium Golden Mirror’.

They pushed the door open and it creaked. Two rusty door handles knocked against each other, breaking the silence.

The three of them entered, and there was a courtyard inside. Directly in front of them was a large hall of plaques.

The door was open and the light was terrible. There were only two candles that were about to burn out in the innermost part.

The tears from the candles flowed down and merged into two red candle stacks as high as a man’s forearm. It seemed that this ancestral hall had been enshrined for years.

The candlesticks were placed on the altar table. This kind of altar table was much longer and wider than the one in Widow Du’s house. The tablets commemorating the village’s ancestors were placed in the middle.

The most striking thing was that there were many coffins in this ancestral hall.

There were 14 coffins in all, and they were much thicker than ordinary coffins, especially at the bottom.

The ends of the coffins were facing the door, and at first glance, they looked like standing children.

Almost all of these coffins were covered and only one was open.

They saw a bamboo basket beside the coffin, and inside it was a faint red cloth.

[You have learned a new funeral custom. Funeral profession skills have been updated:

Coffin: Folk Funeral Customs, The Dead Rest in Peace.

Professional Skill [Coffin] Proficiency 0%.

(The skill level of a professional skill affects the success rate of the job. Failure will have severe consequences.)]

When Bai Qiuye saw the proficiency this time, she was no longer surprised.

Liu He: “0% again.”

Mo Jie patted his shoulder. “Don’t worry, this isn’t a mutation skill. I’ve encountered it twice in the previous instance, and my proficiency is already at 2%.It’s still some experience.”

Liu He’s expression relaxed a bit.

“That’s great.”

Bai Qiuye lowered her head and looked down. She wouldn’t do anything unless it was absolutely necessary.1580% was too shocking.It wouldn’t be worth revealing that she had been in the instance for 13 years.

She watched Mo Jie open the bamboo basket and saw some gold and silver paper inside, as well as the straw paper used to cover the bottom of the coffin, green hemp sticks, and various funeral supplies such as white elegiac couplets and paper money.

These pieces of gold and silver paper were cut in a very strange way. Two of them looked like the sun and the moon, but the third was out of place. It was a slender human figure, and no matter how you looked at it, it looked like it was mixed in.

When Mo Jie took it out, Bai Qiuye was stunned.

No, the gold and silver paper prepared by Widow Du didn’t look like this.

Mo Jie had experience with coffins in other copies, so he also felt strange when he saw this shape.

He said, “Usually, the sun, the moon, and the Beidou are pasted on coffins. This… I’m afraid it has a bad meaning.”

Bai Qiuye couldn’t help but go over and look for the bamboo basket.

The spare gold and silver paper was cut into pieces and scattered at the bottom of the bamboo basket.

It was impossible for her to cut a normal gold and silver paper again.

“It looks like someone destroyed it on purpose,” Mo Jie said. “Could it be Widow Du?”

Liu He nodded, agreeing with his speculation. “This human figure can’t be pasted.”

As he spoke, Mo Jie turned and suddenly froze.

He saw a white paper figure standing at the door of the Memorial Tablet Hall. The faint moonlight shone in through the window grate, illuminating its grin.

Bai Qiuye and Liu He noticed Mo Jie’s movement and turned around.

A paper figure was standing at the door. After entering the door, it entered their blind spot, so the three of them didn’t see it before.

“Damn it,” Mo Jie cursed. His face was as pale as the paper figure in front of him. “Why is there another one?”

The previous two had taken almost half of his life.

“They don’t seem to be moving.” Bai Qiuye pointed to the remaining talisman paper on her body. “They didn’t burn.”

The talisman paper didn’t burn, which meant that the evil spirit didn’t want to harm people.

Mo Liu and Liu He were relieved. Only then did they dare to go forward to check the paper figures.

Except for the inherent rigidity of the paper figures, they looked very lifelike.

Bai Qiuye couldn’t help but think about the paper on their bodies.

Perhaps this was how these paper figurines were assimilated.

She lifted the candle and looked at the paper figure’s eyes. She blurted out, “It looks like… Fu Yao!”

Her words made the air in the Memorial Tablet Hall turn cold.

Liu He said, “It’s Fu Yao.”

Bai Qiuye was surprised.

Fu Yao was at level 28. She was the third boss in their group.

Logically, she should be able to come and go freely in this novice copy. Bai Qiuye couldn’t understand how Fu Yao had become like this.

If Zhong Ying was stabbed to death because of bad luck, then what was the reason for Fu Yao’s death?

“Could it be that the one who turned her into this was a ghost beyond her level?” Thinking of this, Bai Qiuye’s trembled. “There really are such ghost in this dungeon, and they appeared with Mo Jie and the others!”

Suddenly, there was a sharp intake of breath. The paper figure’s chest rose and fell as if it had come alive.