Chapter 320: Chapter 284: Apprentice Mission

The flight attendants urged Sang Que to sit down and fasten his seatbelt, while the man was taken to the restroom to be monitored.

Sang Que sat down and saw his mom’s face turn deathly pale, her body began to tremble slightly.

“Don’t be afraid, I’m here.”

Sang Que held Sang Wan’s hand as Sang Wan opened the video.

The video showed footage from this very plane, focusing on the man being pinned to the floor.

Sang Que looked up and found the camera recording the video in the cabin. He tried to use Ghost Eye to trace it back, but all he saw was boundless darkness, nothing at all.

[Apprentice Task Two: Compose a horror story under 500 words within ten minutes using the characters in the video, ensuring no one survives. After completing, earn points based on the story’s fright level. Points can be exchanged for free writing credits to fulfill your wishes]

Apprentice Task Two wasn’t targeted at Sang Que, so Sang Wan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, her biggest fear avoided.

Yet the current situation puzzled Sang Wan and Sang Que. With the existing information, Sang Wan’s second apprentice task should have been released a month later, but now it was issued prematurely.

And it coincidentally occurred on this plane after Sang Que killed the ghost woman in front.

Could this be a mechanism of the story relay group, where if the previous story is disrupted, the next person immediately takes over?

Creating a horror story on a plane, if it escalates too much, the plane and everyone aboard could be doomed.

The story relay group’s real target might not be that man, but everyone here.

There’s over an hour until landing, yet Sang Wan only has ten minutes to brainstorm.

Panic-stricken, Sang Wan typed in the group chat ’I want to quit’.

Another new message popped up.

[After completing three apprentice tasks, you can choose to join the ’Official Group’ or exit the group. Previous rewards will not be retracted]

Sang Wan’s eyes lit up; the option to leave really existed, a chance she must seize.

But that meant she had to complete this apprentice task and the next one.

“How should I complete this story?”

Sang Wan frowned, according to the story relay group’s logic, once she began writing a horror story, supernatural powers would appear in the plane, inevitably affecting it.

A 500-word story, how to find loopholes inside it and ensure no one survives? Is it the people in the video who must not survive? Otherwise, she’s involved too; the group leader couldn’t possibly want her life as well, right?

Sang Wan furrowed her brows, already starting to draft her thoughts.

“Why follow its rules?”

Sang Que questioned, leaving Sang Wan stunned.

The current scenario felt like a complex chess game laid out before them, with Sang Wan trying to identify the breaking point within the game.

Having gone through so much in the Deceit Dynasty, Sang Que had long shattered conventional thinking, always considering the first course of action was to flip the board.

“Mom, are you afraid of heights?”

Sang Que took Sang Wan’s phone and put it in her own pocket.

Sang Wan’s entire body tensed, a look shared between them, she immediately knew what Sang Que intended to do.

Sang Que stood up and walked straight to the front restroom, where the man was being held, avoiding other passengers, sufficiently hidden.

After a bit of commotion and several muffled grunts, Sang Que emerged from the restroom carrying the unconscious man, and Sang Wan hurriedly went to meet her.

As other flight attendants gathered, Sang Que held Sang Wan in one hand and the man in the other, the cabin lights flickered, and in the blink of an eye, the three of them vanished into thin air.

The gale howled, Sang Wan tightly closed her eyes and clung to Sang Que, who instantly teleported with her and the man out of the airplane, minimizing the impact.

Sang Que strained herself, using instant teleportation to cushion their fall, they were now [already within Huaxia’s borders].

Nearing the ground, Sang Que chose a secluded mountain forest, and the three fell on the ground, thankful not to be smashed to pieces.

Sang Que swiftly spread the Ghost Realm to cover ten miles around, also using it to sense the surrounding situation.

No living people, only some small animals in the forest.

Based on known information, the video for task postings mostly came from various cameras, but when Zheng Xuan was at the abandoned temple, there weren’t any cameras there.

Thus, in the forest, Sang Que must also prepare to block detection.

The Ghost Realm contains an Opera House; the Opera House has doors. Sang Que previously thought about whether she could utilize the doors within to traverse realms; no matter if coming or going, she’d first appear in her Ghost Realm, maximizing her safety, avoiding searching for doors in emergencies.

Unlike Evil Mist, once deployed, even if she’s not present, the Ghost Realm slowly vanishes, similar to channel activation duration, taking about half an hour to completely disappear.

Sang Que confirmed again the man was thoroughly knocked out, wouldn’t awaken shortly, then pushed open the middle door on the first floor belonging to Old Tian with her right hand.

Seeing the pitch-black behind the door, Sang Que knew her idea worked, she could open doors from inside the Ghost Realm.

“Mom, I must send you to the Deceit Dynasty temporarily now.”

Sang Wan nodded, without the slightest hesitation or fear.

Sang Que hoisted the man, grabbed Sang Wan’s hand, and led her through the door, into darkness, opening the opposite door to arrive outside Bright Moon Mountain, deep in the rugged Little Stone Forest.

Sang Wan’s heart raced, so nervous she forgot to breathe.

Sang Que released the Yin Child, “Protect my mom well. If anything happens to her, I won’t spare you. And this man, don’t kill him; if he shows signs of waking, find a way to knock him out. Most importantly, don’t let anyone discover you two, and don’t let anyone approach here.”

Yin Child was smarter than the Deceitful Bride, understood timing better, and though the Deceitful Bride was mightier than Sang Que, she feared if she left, Ghost Bride would become uncontrollable, so she chose Yin Child to stay.

Before leaving, Sang Que handed the Exorcism Red Candle she carried to Sang Wan, then added to Yin Child.

“Do the job well, and I’ll consider sharing some of that mummy’s power with you.”

Yin Child stood there motionless; she rarely actively responded to Sang Que, but this time she obediently nodded.

“Mom, I’m going to handle the aftermath, ensuring the plane lands safely, and I’ll return to fetch you after an hour at most.”

“Mm, be careful yourself.”

Sang Que returned behind the simple wooden door of the Little Stone Forest, back to her Ghost Realm in the mountain forest.

Retracting the Ghost Realm, Sang Que dialed Ye Changqing’s number using her phone, quickly explaining the incident on their plane, asking Ye Changqing to help ensure the plane lands safely.

The target man in the plane was taken by her; Sang Que couldn’t guarantee the story relay group would cease, wouldn’t seek another target.

Besides, when she teleported off the plane, though not seen by business class passengers, several flight attendants near the restroom witnessed it.

The subsequent effects required Ye Changqing’s side to handle.

As Sang Que awaited news from Ye Changqing, she also calculated the time, checking the group information on her mom’s phone, she brought out the Connected Branch and sat under a tree waiting.

To maintain smooth communication, allowing Ye Changqing to reach her anytime, Sang Que refrained from expanding the Ghost Realm again.

Soon, the ten-minute mark arrived, her mom’s phone vibrated.

[Task failed. You have been removed from the group chat, previously issued rewards being recovered…]

Sang Que held her breath, staring at the two wooden plaques of Connected Branch, carefully sensing her own changes.

No changes, Connected Branch wasn’t triggered either.

Ding dong~

[Reward recovery failed]

[Error]

[Error]

[Error]

…

The word ’error’ rapidly flooded the screen, bursting forth at lightning speed.

Until…

[I, remember you!]

[Video]

A video popped up; without clicking on it, just the thumbnail made Sang Que feel a chill surge to her head.

It was her, sitting under the tree holding her phone, captured from a bird’s-eye view.

Sang Que looked up, the silent forest, only the leaves above rustled softly.

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