Half Immortal

veral times by Hu Ayun’s fingernails.
The pain and the putrid smell stimulated Yan Wei’s nerves.
He grabbed the hand that Hu Ayun stretched out again, suppressing all emotions in his mind and thinking logically.

Hu Ayun still couldn’t be killed like this, and only a last bit of sun was left hanging on the mountain.
It was about to get dark — it was about to become Hu Ayun’s home ground.

What was the problem? Why wasn’t the instance over yet?

His method was not wrong, but the evil techniques have not been completely broken.

Yan Wei’s first thought was whether or not they missed a town resident.

But the group of four was in the town.
They couldn’t have all been negligent at the same time.
Moreover, the phalanges of ordinary dead people were all used up.
What kind of omission was there? Even if there was a missing person, there would be a missing finger.
In the entire ancient town currently, apart from Hu Ayun, who was not dead, there was only him, Yan Mingguang, Lin Zhen, Yu Feizhou, Ning Yi, and Song Yu.

Besides the boss, there were the players — players… no!

After another tumble, Yan Wei turned his head to avoid Hu Ayun’s offensive, and his eyes suddenly brightened.

All the details since entering the instance flashed through his head, ending in a scene of Song Yu and others outside his room yesterday evening.

At that time, Kong Yuwei and Lu Ya supported Song Yu, who was seriously injured.
He exchanged a bottle of wound medicine and handed it to Song Yu, but Song Yu, whose left arm and shoulder were bloody, took it with his left hand, saying thank you and giving no response the rest of the time.
Yet when all the players were eating together, Song Yu used his right hand to hold the chopsticks.

He was not left-handed and had an injured left hand, so why not use his dominant right hand to pick things up? Because there was a problem with Song Yu’s right hand.

All the phalanges were from the right hand of the deceased.

“Yu Feizhou! Are you still carrying Song Yu?”

On the other end of the intercom, Yu Feizhou was taken aback.
“Yes, but he’s not responding.”

“Song Yu died yesterday!! Put him down quickly! You’re carrying the last skinless ghost that hasn’t been made into an umbrella! The phalanx is still in his body! Cut off the bone of his right pinky!!”

As soon as Yan Wei’s words came out, Hu Ayun’s still confident expression suddenly changed.

……

On the elevated platform of Ankang Ancient Town

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Yu Feizhou was startled and then suddenly threw Song Yu to the floor.

“Song Yu,” who seemed to be dying and unresponsive, suddenly opened his eyes.
He had chapped skin, and blood streamed from all over his body.

“Song Yu” jumped up and attacked Yu Feizhou with a vicious look.

With a shining edge and a soughing of the wind, Ning Yi’s short blade quickly cut off the right pinky of the ordinary skinless ghost.

Yu Feizhou lifted his foot and kicked the skinless ghost off the leveled surface.

Lin Zhen grabbed the finger that flew out from the side.
The finger rotted away in his hand, leaving only a pale phalanx.

–This was the last phalanx!

If they had left Song Yu in the temple, it would be too late even if they desperately rushed to the mountain temple.
Yu Feizhou’s moment of kindness caused Yan Wei to speculate the final key and allowed the rest of the people to obtain the last phalanx easily.

Under the high platform, the last skinless ghost began to climb up.

Lin Zhen looked at the object in his hand and said, “There’s one more phalanx, but all the townspeople are dead.
Where is the person corresponding to this phalanx? The finger bone is placed on the person, and the corresponding skinless ghost will kill the person under the attraction of the phalanx.
The death and decay of the person soon follow.
But now there aren’t any additional residents and one more phalanx.
This skinless ghost isn’t dead, and the cycle isn’t over.”

In the intercom, Yan Wei said with a breathless but firm voice, “Mountain god!! The stone statue of the mountain god!”

Ning Yi and Yu Feizhou’s expressions froze.
Yan Mingguag raised his eyes from under the high platform and looked halfway up the mountainside.

Only one last minute of the sun remained.

Lin Zhen faced the direction of the mountain temple, the longbow in his hand was gradually raised, and a black arrow feather rested on the bowstring.

He fastened the phalanx to the tip of the arrow, hooked his lips, and slowly closed his eyes.

“It’s quite exciting…” Lin Zhen muttered, “It’s the first time I’ve attempted such a long distance.”

In the next instant, the arrow feathers took the phalanx and pierced the sky, streaking across the alternating dusk and twilight — accurately shooting into the stone statue of the mountain god in the temple.

The last skinless ghost made a move, disappeared in the ancient town, and appeared in front of the stone sculpture.

It grinned, rushed towards the statue of the mountain god, and headed to destruction together with this “last townsman.”

The stone statue shattered, and the skinless ghost decayed and perished.

Besides the deep mountain well, Yan Wei stabbed the dagger into Hu Ayun’s heart.
He smirked and softly said, “I told you, I won’t allow myself to get thrown into the fire.”

Hu Ayun’s movements were stagnant.
Her eyes widened, and her face was full of disbelief.

This time, her wound will never heal, and there will be no new umbrellas of skin and bone in the entire ancient town.

Her body fell stiffly.

“How come…” she murmured.

The evil practices were over, and the ancient town, which had been enshrining a lifeless stone statue with skin and bones for generations, was obliterated by the same method of death.
The grievances of the girls who were used as sacrifices slowly dissipated along with the smell of decay, and every townspeople’s hoarse screams paid tribute to the dead girls.
Hu Ayun resented this town and hoped to get relief from her sister’s forgiveness, but in the end, she only got a final wish in her sister’s retrospective fantasy.
Hu Ayu wanted her to die, and she died along with the town.

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The sun disappeared.
The last of the sun completely set, and night came.

A jet-black staircase silently extended out of the darkness and appeared in front of everyone.

On the intercom, the other’s voices came one after another.

Yu Feizhou said goodbye to him.
Lin Zhen scoffed and said to Yan Wei, “It was fun crossing an instance with you.” Yan Mingguang that he would be waiting for Yan Wei in the inner world of the tower.

Ning Yi’s voice was as cold as always.
“I owe you a favor for this instance.
Thank you.
I will not tell you your secret, but next time we meet, we will still be enemies.”

“I won’t take it lightly next time.
You are an opponent worth taking seriously.”

Yan Wei chuckled lightly.
“Of course.”

He did not walk up the stairs at first.

He looked at Hu Ayun.

Hu Ayun had long lost the cleanliness and orderliness of the daytime, scattered in mud and blood.
She was a mess.
She was no longer a youth of eighteen, looking ahead with her eyes wide open, fallen quietly to the floor, and no longer breathing.

Dead.

Yan Wei sighed, took out a coin, and tossed it gently.

The coin fell back to his palm — heads up.

“Let me tell you,” he said, “Actually, I lied to you a while ago.
When I went down the well for the second time, I did enter Hu Ayu’s retrospective illusion.
But in her retrospective illusion, the way to break the instance is not to kill you but to set fire to the whole town.
In her life, she lived with more clarity than you.
She has always known that the root of the error was the whole town of Ankang, not just you, but I don’t think you deserve this answer.”

Hu Ayun’s body had begun to deteriorate rapidly.

Yan Wei turned around and walked up the dark stairs.

【Congratulations to the player for acquiring the final point: Ending the tragedy in Ankang Ancient Town.
Rewards: Sensory Stat 10, Physical Stat 10, Points 10.】

【Congratulations on successfully ascending the tower.
Player’s current floor: Seventh floor.
Next instance floor: Eighth floor.
As the player has activated the casino mechanism and successfully cleared the instance, according to the player’s development direction and the performance in the instance (ranked according to the first answer score), the clearance reward is determined as: Physical Stat 50 Points, Sensory Stat 100 Points, and 100 Bonus Points.】

【Total reward obtained in this instance: Physical Stat 73 Points, Sensory Stat 128, and 231 Bonus Points.
Because you have placed a bet successfully, points double, and you are given the right to select your next instance from the selection pool.】

【Current Player Stat Update: Physical Stat 84, Sensory Stat 161, Level 7, Points 243.】

【Congratulations to the player for obtaining an instance dropped item: …】

【After evaluation, you are one of the most outstanding and best players in this instance.】

【You have been tested to have a codename, and the codename “Yan” will be announced as the best player.】

A flash of light gleamed in Yan Wei’s eyes, and he was transmitted back to the inner world of the tower.

Finals are done, summer vacation is here, and the arc has been completed! Time to recheck some chapters and scan for small errors.
I’ll see how much I can update every week.
In the meantime, enjoy the chapter (´∀`)