Chapter 61 The Guardian Spirit

As the village chief of Wogan gave the order, countless simple villagers revealed fierce expressions, taking up their farm tools as weapons, ready to subdue Qiao Yu and the others.

Qiao Yu silently counted the villagers, finding that they only slightly outnumbered their class, and the villagers were all about the same age.

"Wait! Village Chief Wogan, isn't there some kind of misunderstanding?"

Ma Fei stepped forward.

"Misunderstanding? Heh."

Wogan's face was covered with gloom as he said with a sneer.

"Don't you know what good things you did last night?"

"Last night? Are you talking about us killing a nightmare?"

Ma Fei thought it over and over. The only accident last night was that Qiao Yu and the others killed a nightmare in their room.

"Shut up! That was the guardian spirit of our Nightmare Village!"

Wogan was so excited that his spittle flew everywhere.

"It must be that you broke the rules of Nightmare Village last night, which is why the guardian spirit punished you!"

"And you! You actually killed a guardian spirit! You deserve to die ten thousand times over! You deserve to die ten thousand times over!!"

Wogan stared at them with bloodshot eyes, as if they were his mortal enemies.

After hearing Wogan's words, the students in the class looked at Zhong Tianyu with a hint of blame.

If Zhong Tianyu hadn't opened the window last night, the nightmare wouldn't have rushed into the room and wouldn't have been killed by Qiao Yu and the others.

Ma Fei couldn't bother to antagonize Qiao Yu at this time. He couldn't just watch his classmates fight with the villagers of Nightmare Village, so he quickly asked.

"Village Chief, is there any way to remedy accidentally killing the...guardian spirit?"

Village Chief Wogan sneered.

"Heh, of course! That is, the person who angered the guardian spirit must stay outside the house when night falls! Can you do that?"

Ma Fei's face was uncertain. No one knew exactly how many nightmare monsters there were in Nightmare Village, and there might be even more dangers hidden in the night.

If they stayed outside the house when night fell, wouldn't that be sending them to their deaths?

Just as Ma Fei was hesitating, Qiao Yu's voice rang out from behind him.

"I killed the guardian spirit nightmare. I will wait here for night to fall."

Ma Fei rushed over and covered Qiao Yu's mouth.

"Are you crazy? This is not the way to show off! You're courting death!"

Ma Fei turned his head and said to the village chief,

"Village Chief, I'm sorry. My classmate here isn't very bright, please don't take him seriously!"

"Don't worry, class monitor, I'm not crazy. I want to verify something. Maybe it can help us leave this instance," Qiao Yu said softly.

Qiao Yu had already guessed about seventy or eighty percent of the core secrets of Nightmare Village, but as always, he needed to verify something to be safe.

"Hmph! Good! You have guts!"

"Hong Diao, Hong Mao, lock this kid up!"

Following Wogan's order, two other old men with bulging muscles took a large iron chain and locked Qiao Yu's legs to a stone pillar.

Seeing that someone had confessed their guilt, the villagers left contentedly.

As soon as Wogan and the others left, Ma Fei hurriedly asked.

"Qiao Yu, what do you mean by saying you can help us leave this instance? Have you found the core secret of Nightmare Village?"

"Most likely, yes." Qiao Yu nodded.

Ma Fei immediately felt frustrated. He slept all night and didn't do anything. But Qiao Yu not only killed a nightmare, but had also come into contact with the core secret!

No way! I don't believe I can't beat Qiao Yu!

"Qiao Yu, can you tell us your guess?" Zuo You asked.

"Have you ever thought that everything we are experiencing now is virtual?" Qiao Yu said.

"Virtual?"

The others looked at each other in confusion. Yang Xiangdi couldn't help but say,

"But we are already in the virtual Otherworld."

Qiao Yu had black lines all over his face.

"What I mean is, we are in a virtual world within a virtual world, that is, a dream within a dream! Similar to being in a hallucination."

"You mean... the secret of Nightmare Village is that all of this is fake?" Zuo You asked.

Qiao Yu nodded and looked at the rising sun.

"This is just my guess. We'll have to wait until tonight to know for sure."

Pa!

Zuo You suddenly slapped Zhao Ziyue on her chest, causing a wave of softness that almost made the three of them spit blood!

"Flat-chest, what are you doing! It hurts, you know!"

Zhao Ziyue angrily wanted to slap back, but found that Zuo You didn't have any, so she could only curse.

"It hurts?"

Zuo You showed a thoughtful expression.

"But shouldn't it not hurt if we're in a hallucination?"

Qiao Yu awkwardly touched his nose.

"That...Zuo You, I just said similar. We are in the Otherworld now, so we can't use real-life experience to judge."

"Oh, I see."

Zuo You nodded and walked away as if nothing had happened.

"Flat-chest, you stop right there!"

The more Zhao Ziyue thought about it, the angrier she became. Why did you slap me if you didn't have any?

"What's wrong with slapping a cow!"

"I'll slap your grandma's legs! Flat-chest!"

"Big boobs!"

"Flat-chest!"

"Big boobs!"

......

The night erased the last ray of sunset, and the night fell slowly like the curtain in a theater.

The moonlight flowed slowly over Qiao Yu's body like mercury. He opened his eyes and concentrated on guarding his surroundings.

Here it comes!

Qiao Yu turned his head to look into a deep darkness, and an ugly nightmare crawled out of it.

It opened its stinking mouth towards Qiao Yu.

Just as Qiao Yu was about to make a move, a figure carrying a long sword descended in front of him gracefully like an immortal under the moon.

Bathed in the moonlight, Ma Fei revealed half of his cold and handsome profile.

At this time, Zuo You and the other three also arrived in time.

"Sand Binding!"

After Yang Xiangdi finished chanting, he directly used a skill to control the nightmare.

"Ma Fei, hurry up and attack! I can only control that nightmare for one second!" Yang Xiangdi urged.

However, Ma Fei didn't move at all, and even flicked his flamboyant bangs.

"Don't worry, I, Ma Fei, will definitely protect you! As a true sword cultivator, one person, one sword, can slay all enemies in the world!"

Ma Fei uttered a very chuunibyou (delusional) line, and waited until the nightmare broke free before meeting it head-on.

However, as soon as he made contact, Ma Fei realized something was wrong.

Duang!

The nightmare headbutted him. Ma Fei raised his sword to block, but he underestimated the nightmare's strength.

With one headbutt, Ma Fei retreated again and again. The powerful impact made Ma Fei's sword tremble non-stop, and the long sword in his hand almost slipped out.

Ma Fei was completely dumbfounded. Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?

Did Qiao Yu really hammer this thing to death last night?

Seeing that Ma Fei had lost the wind in the first move, Yang Xiangdi asked Qiao Yu with a strange expression.

"Qiao Yu, do you think there's something wrong with Ma Fei? I helped him control the nightmare, but he didn't want it, and insisted on doing it himself. The key is that he can't even do it. It's like singing without looking at the music - outrageous!"

Qiao Yu: "......, maybe this is the unique cultivation method of sword cultivators?"