Chapter 146 The Most Frightening Thing

Compared to Lu Xiaoyao frantically shaking her head to get rid of the red veil, Zhen Po's desperate struggle to spit out the gag was truly something else.

"Pui, pui, pui! Let me go! You son of a...! Don't touch me!"

Zhen Po shouted furiously, but before two seconds passed, his mouth was stuffed again.

Especially since the gag had just rolled around on the ground, barely three seconds ago.

Well, the gag had now been noticed by the dust on the ground, and being stuffed back into his mouth this time brought a whole new sensation.

Mingmei: "..."

Zhen Po: QvQ!!

"Oh dear, this bride has quite the temper!"

The old woman wiped her forehead as if she had sweat there, and seeing that Lu Xiaoyao's veil was gone and Zhen Po was already unveiled, she simply skipped veiling him altogether. She turned and looked at Wang Wenfei, who had been quietly sitting since they came in. Now, she was the only one left without makeup.

"This girl has good natural features. She looks good without makeup, unlike that one..." The old woman glanced askance at Zhen Po behind her, the disgust in her eyes obvious to anyone!

However, from Lu Xiaoyao's perspective, Mingmei looked at Zhen Po's face with makeup that resembled that of a dead person, a pale white face with two blobs of bright pink blush. No matter how good your natural features, it wouldn't survive this!

Lu Xiaoyao couldn't stand the ghastly makeup, so she looked at Wang Wenfei. And what do you know!

The large white brush was back, applying the makeup like whitewash on a wall. Wang Wenfei's face quickly became unwatchable as well.

[Guigui, adjust Lu Xiaoyao's third-person perspective for me. I want to see if Lu Xiaoyao's makeup looks the same?]

[One moment.]

Guigui, who was watching the livestream with Mingmei, was naturally startled by the mortician-like makeup in the camera. After helping Mingmei adjust the perspective, she saw—

Oh!

Everyone was the same!

[This makeup artist...] Guigui said with a complicated tone, [Was this how it was done back then?]

[No, not really...] Mingmei took a deep breath and thought for a moment before saying, [This is makeup for the dead, a *lian zhuang* (corpse makeup).]

[??? How do you know that?]

[Combine it with the game's background and look at the makeup tools in her hands. Does anyone use paintbrushes for makeup? These tools clearly don't look like they're for living people, right?]

[But... from what I know, morticians are supposed to apply makeup to the dead to restore their appearance to how they looked in life, right?] Guigui began to doubt her own knowledge.

Although this knowledge was useless now. In the Interstellar Era, besides dying peacefully in your sleep with your body intact, other accidental deaths usually left you as nothing but scraps.

[Ah, pushing it back further, makeup for the dead was supposed to clearly differentiate the living from the dead, to prevent the deceased from having the illusion that they weren't dead yet, so the *wanghun* (wandering soul) wouldn't leave.]

Mingmei explained in a very logical manner, but Guigui found the crux of the matter.

[Speaking of which, Host, your previous world shouldn't need this kind of knowledge, right?]

The way Mingmei said it sounded like the things said in those horror and paranormal novels on Hua Lan Star!

[Host, aren't you always saying that studying is killing you? When did you start secretly looking at things that don't align with the scientific view of this world?]

Mingmei: "..."

Just like that, she was exposed, and Mingmei felt very awkward _(：3」∠)_

It was when Guigui went to the Main Brain for further studies during winter vacation and she was bored, that she curiously clicked on some clickbait titles on the Star Network—#Challenge Your Heartbeat, Come Quickly If You Dare...#

Then—oh~

Although she knew it was fake, and some things in her previous world were much scarier than what was said here, Mingmei found it surprisingly addictive!

So now she had accidentally revealed herself.

To be honest, if Guigui had a physical body right now, her face would definitely be full of disgust, completely unable to look directly at her own host.

[Ahem... I think what I said makes sense. Think about it, these brides in the game can't survive and are meant to be sacrificed. Isn't applying makeup for the dead just to please the Boss?]

Not wanting to dwell on what she did during her vacation, Mingmei decided to steer the topic back.

[Guigui! Look, Wang Wenfei is making a move!]

Guigui: [Host, trying to distract me like that probably won't work...]

Before Guigui could finish, Mingmei was no longer listening to what Guigui was saying. She really saw it!

Wang Wenfei somehow managed to untie the rope on her hands, and with a backhand, she picked up the teapot from the small table next to her and smashed it at the old woman! .oΓg

"Ah!"

"Die!"

Taking advantage of the old woman being hit by the teapot and losing her balance, Wang Wenfei raised her legs and kicked with both feet, knocking the old woman to the ground.

Then she quickly untied the restraints on her feet. After that, she hurriedly picked up the broken porcelain shards from the teapot and released Lu Xiaoyao and Zhen Po.

"Wuhu!"

"Pui, pui, pui!"

The three liberated people hadn't forgotten the old woman lying on the ground. When they looked down, they saw that she had turned back into a tattered paper figurine. There were traces of tea on her body. Now they realized—

"These paper figurines are afraid of water?"

Wang Wenfei looked at the tea on the paper figurine and the broken openings. Obviously, it was her who made the move just now.

"Hmm, probably. I remember when I played this game before, it rained at night, and I saw one of the paper figurines that was supposed to pick me up had its legs fade from the rain."

When Lu Xiaoyao said this, the three looked at each other and immediately searched the room with their eyes.

Water, they needed water!

But reality told them that the only pot of water had already been smashed by Wang Wenfei.

…

"Water ah..."

Mingmei looked up at the sky outside the door. She remembered that it would rain when it got dark, right?

"What?"

Zhen Hu, who had finished his boxed lunch, turned his head and heard Mingmei's sigh and blurted out, asking what Mingmei was saying.

"They're afraid of water." As she said that, Mingmei acted like an NPC in the game who could provide useful information and told Zhen Hu and the others the weaknesses of the paper figurines.

"Water ah." Qi Hai Kui suddenly understood, "That's right, paper figurines are indeed afraid of water."

Then he heard Mingmei say, "It will rain tonight."

Mingmei also said the common saying "When the King of Hell marries his daughter, it will rain at midnight," which he said when he and Mu Chen met on a rainy night, listening to Qi Hai Kui and Zhen Hu with great interest.

"Speaking of which, Ancient Blue Star is so amazing, a planet that nurtured so much culture..."

Although it was just some folklore, Qi Hai Kui and Zhen Hu still liked it very much.

Especially Zhen Hu, a fan of *xianxia* (cultivation fantasy), used what Mingmei said about the King of Hell and immediately told Qi Hai Kui a bunch of celestial beings from above and below.

He also told the story of Pan Gu and Nüwa, and seeing that the two, who should have been doing serious business after eating their boxed lunches, had begun to share myths and legends of Ancient Blue Star, Mingmei couldn't help but tilt her head, wondering—

Did they enter the game to exchange myths and legends?