I Became a God in a Horror Game

After Mu Sicheng absorbed two breaths of Bai Liu’s energy, he barely maintained his human form. He led Bai Liu into the depths of the tomb passage.

Although Mu Sicheng was walking in front of Bai Liu, only Bai Liu’s footsteps could be heard in the dark tomb passage.

Bai Liu held up the candlestick to illuminate Mu Sicheng who was walking in front of him and glanced at Mu Sicheng’s shadow casted on the wall in his peripheral vision.

Mu Sicheng’s swaying shadow became fainter and fainter, like a wisp of smoke reflected on the wall.

From time to time they would come across one or two wine jars placed in the middle of the tomb passage.

Mu Sicheng carefully stood in front of Bai Liu and had him go around behind him so as not to touch the wine jar.

The wine jar seemed to be able to smell the energy of a living person. It slowly turned a half circle as Bai Liu walked. The red paper sealing it slightly arched twice, then slowly calmed down after smelling the ghost scent of Mu Sicheng.

Mu Sicheng breathed a sigh of relief. He looked back at the wine jar standing quietly in the middle of the road and patted his chest with lingering fear. “There were also these wine jars in the wedding hall. It would chase people. I wonder what is in it.”

“That thing contains the bones of a drowned person, and it will chase after the scent of the living.” Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng, “Do you remember when this wine jar stopped chasing you?”

Mu Sicheng was stunned. He frowned and thought hard for a moment, “…I don’t quite remember. It seems that after I escaped, these wine jars didn’t pay much attention to me.”

Bai Liu pondered, “Then your body should have been lost on the way out of the wedding hall. Apart from you turning back to save me, did anything strange happen in between?”

Mu Sicheng tried hard to recall, “…I can’t remember clearly, it seems that I met some paper figures carrying something…”

Suddenly a strange sound of footsteps stepping on paper scraps emitted behind Bai Liu. The footsteps stopped and started again, like something was jumping down the stairs. Every sound was the sound of two heavy feet landing on the ground. It sounded like the person was walking very slowly, but it was almost instantly close to Bai Liu’s back.

The candlestick in Bai Liu’s hand started to shake, and the flame suddenly turned pale. He quickly pulled Mu Sicheng into a tomb passage nearby, hid behind Mu Sicheng sideways, and put his hands together to cover the faint light of the candle.

Under the very dim candlelight, a pair of strong, pale hands with sharp black nails suddenly appeared from the damp and dark low tomb passage.

The hand jumped again, revealing the body hidden in the darkness. The person holding these hands was a middle-aged man wearing a mandarin jacket and shorts, with a yellow talisman on his forehead.

This middle-aged man’s figure was tall and strong, with an abnormal purple complexion, black lips, and sunken eyes. He stared straight ahead, with two long fangs at the side of his mouth stuck in the flesh. His knees were jumping forward without bending at all, and there was an old yellow talisman stuck on his forehead, which seemed like it could fall off at any time due to the jumping.

Bai Liu squinted his eyes and looked at the yellow talisman for a while and confirmed that the talisman drawn on the yellow talisman was the Yinshi Talisman in “Maoshan Sorcery”, a talisman used to refine the dead into yin corpses.

After being refined, the Yin corpses can be driven by the person who drew the talisman, but at the same time, the person who drew the talisman will also receive backlash. If the person who drew the talisman is dying, these Yin corpses would turn around and devour their master.

Through the dusty jacket, one could vaguely see a large gash on the back of the middle-aged zombie, deep enough to reveal the bone. It had been stitched up roughly but it was clear that it had been done after death and the spine could be seen at the stitching.

This big knife wound should be the fatal injury of the middle-aged man.

The zombie jumped extremely fast. In just one jump, it jumped high in front of Bai Liu, but then, a second zombie jumped out from the darkness behind.

This zombie looked about the same age as the previous one, both were young and strong, and there was a big wound on its neck.

The zombie’s head was almost chopped off and was sewn back together but the skill of the person who sewed it was obviously not very good. As the zombie jumped, its neck cracked and its head fell to the side. Its black eye sockets looked straight at Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng hiding in the shadowy tomb passage.

The crooked-necked zombie’s nose moved twice as if it smelled a living person. An angry look appeared on its stiff face. It turned its raised hands and jumped into the tomb passage.

Mu Sicheng stood in front of Bai Liu with a tense expression. Bai Liu hid behind Mu Sicheng’s shoulder, hiding the candlestick behind his back with one hand and calmly covering his mouth and nose with the other hand.

The zombie tilted its head, opened its mouth full of fangs, and moved close to the left side of Mu Sicheng’s neck with a resentful look. It sniffed twice as if it would bite hard if it smelled a living person. Mu Sicheng had never come into such close contact with a zombie before. His hair stood on end but he dared not move.

Bai Liu was hiding behind Mu Sicheng’s right shoulder at this time, with his back to Mu Sicheng’s back.

Zombies have poor eyesight, travel under the moon, like to eat human blood and rely on their sense of smell to find people. They like to sniff at the places where vitality flows in the human body’s seven orifices. Therefore, “Maoshan Sorcery” records that if there are zombies in the area, you should sleep face down. This way, when the zombies sneak into the bed from house to house to sniff and bite people, they will not find you.

The zombie sniffed Mu Sicheng’s face carefully, with a hint of confusion on its tilted head. It bared its fangs viciously, turned around abruptly and reached towards Mu Sicheng’s left shoulder.

Bai Liu, with his back to the zombie, seemed to be able to see the zombie’s movements. He moved a step and hid behind Mu Sicheng’s right shoulder again.

After this went on a few times, the zombie finally got annoyed. It seemed to curse something, poked Mu Sicheng’s shoulder with its nails, and after confirming that the other party was a ghost, it turned around and walked away.

Mu Sicheng was almost exhausted. He leaned against Bai Liu and let out a long sigh, wiping the non-existent cold sweat from his face, “They’re finally gone…”

“They’re not all gone yet.” Bai Liu’s voice came softly behind Mu Sicheng, “There should be five more, a total of seven zombies.”

As soon as Bai Liu finished speaking, a new zombie jumped out in front of Mu Sicheng. Like the previous zombie, this new zombie was extremely curious about Mu Sicheng, who exuded the smell of the living. It stuck out its fangs and probed him several times before leaving in boredom.

As a result, after a while, another zombie jumped out and stretched its head to sniff the living person’s scent on Mu Sicheng. Bai Liu grew accustomed to it and took advantage of Mu Sicheng’s agile hiding to successfully make the zombie think that Mu Sicheng was just a ghost who had died not long ago and was still emitting life energy.

The zombie bared its teeth and muttered a few threats to Mu Sicheng, then poked Mu Sicheng’s shoulder with its nails and cursed him out.

Mu Sicheng couldn’t understand what the zombies were saying, but based on the zombie’s expressions, he inferred that the zombie was probably scolding him, telling him to get out of here.

Mu Sicheng: “…”

Although this seemed to be true, it really sounded like it was swearing at him.

This process was repeated six times in a row. Except for the first zombie who didn’t come to bother Mu Sicheng, every zombie that followed came to sniff him. Some even bit Mu Sicheng before leaving in disgust; they then waited for the next zombie to repeat the process.

Mu Sicheng, who had two holes bitten on both sides of his neck and face, felt there was nothing left to live for: “…”

Are you sharks?! If you take a bite and it doesn’t taste good, can’t you inform each other?! Why do you have to bite me again?!

However, Mu Sicheng now discovered that being a ghost had its advantages and he wasn’t so afraid of these things anymore.

After the seventh zombie passed by Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng, there was no more jumping sound in the tomb passage. Mu Sicheng was just about to stick his head out to see if there was anything behind him when he was stopped by Bai Liu.

Bai Liu looked towards the dark corridor: “There’s still something that hasn’t left. If you hear any noise, don’t go out.”

Mu Sicheng held his breath and concentrated for a long time but didn’t hear anything. However, his nose was sensitive and he smelled a very greasy scent of incense and candles.

Slowly, Mu Sicheng also heard a crackling sound, like the sound of someone walking on paper. It was fine and fragmented, not loud, but it echoed back and forth in the dark tomb passage, and was exceptionally clear.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and looked deep into the tomb passage. A swaying orange light was flickering and swaying unsteadily, like a ghost or a spirit. The floating lights on the river made it difficult to see the distance, but one could definitely feel that they were approaching.

From afar, the yellow fire was getting closer and closer. At last, they could see the true content hidden in the yellow fire.

Mu Sicheng saw a huge triangular copper incense burner with countless tall incense candles burning fiercely. Sparks were flying everywhere, illuminating the entire tomb passage like daylight. Carrying the incense burner forward were some paper figures that were almost deformed by the weight.

Under the huge weight of the incense burner, the bodies of these paper figures were flattened and deformed. The faces that were painted with joy were also squeezed into strange expressions with piled up wrinkles, and the clothes on their bodies were squeezed so tightly that it was impossible to tell what was originally drawn on them.

The paper people carried the incense burner and moved forward little by little. From time to time, sparks would float down and ignite the paper people carrying the incense burner.

The bodies of the paper figures ignited by the sparks burned rapidly. In the flames that burned them into curls and deformations, Mu Sicheng could clearly hear the eerie laughter of these paper figures in the dazzling fire.

“Hehe~”

“Hehe~”

The swaying incense burner and the burning paper figurine passed in front of Mu Sicheng and Bai Liu. They were light and heavy. At the end of the team carrying the incense burner followed a paper Taoist priest.

This paper Taoist priest was the most exquisitely made one. Its face was lifelike and its facial features were delicately drawn like a real person. It had black eyebrows, a long beard and a dignified expression. The only difference was that its eyes were without pupils and there were no eyeball in the middle of its eye sockets.

In addition, this paper Taoist priest was covered with talisman paper. It had two fingers of one hand raised over its head, holding a golden bell and the other hand holding a peachwood sword that was pointing at the incense burner in front of it. Its eyes, blank and made of a white ink-like texture, stared straight ahead.. It took a step with its left foot then took a step with its right foot and walked straight forward. As it walked, it made the same sound of walking on paper that Mu Sicheng had heard prior.

In such a strange scene, Mu Sicheng’s courage, which had just expanded rapidly because he was a ghost, quickly shrank back. He pulled Bai Liu’s sleeve and asked in a low voice, “What… is it doing?”

Bai Liu looked at the paper Taoist priest and said, “The paper man is driving the corpses.”

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The description of zombies is based on the book “Maoshan Secret Techniques for Expelling Evil”.

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