4: Chapter 4 Qin Shi Huang's influence was so great!

Black smoke was still rising from the Red Matchmaker's shoulder; that pain had completely enraged the fierce ghost. She didn't go for an immediate kill, instead approaching step by step like a cat playing with a mouse.

With every step, she left a sizzling, smoking bloody footprint on the floor.

That tangible killing intent made people feel suffocated even through the screen.

At this moment, in Pei Duo's livestream room, the bullet chats were scrolling so fast they almost covered the screen, filled with schadenfreude and despair.

[(IP: USA) Oh cool~ I've got my popcorn ready. I love watching weak prey get torn apart bit by bit; this is the art of an s-rank instance.]

[(IP: Kimchi Country) Tsk tsk, she didn't even last three minutes. Dragon Country is going to be completely wiped out this time.]

[(IP: Dragon Country) Shut up, all of you! Duo Duo, don't look! Close your eyes... Wuwuwu, I can't watch anymore...]

[(IP: Dragon Country) Is there a miracle?! Heavens, please open your eyes!]

Lin Sa gripped her coin tightly, but eventually let go powerlessly, sighing, "She's beyond saving."

Glasses Man pushed his glasses up coldly: "This is fate. Her luck is bad, she just happened to run right into it. Don't watch, get ready to dash. While the Red Matchmaker is eating her, we'll have a few seconds of an opening to rush to the second floor."

In their eyes, the girl huddled in the corner was already a dead person.

In the dead end.

A strong stench of rot rushed at her, as if someone had dumped a basin of spoiled pig intestines onto her face.

Pei Duo had nowhere left to retreat, her back pressed against the icy wall, the chill soaking into her marrow.

From the Red Matchmaker's wide-split mouth, black slime dripped down, landing on Pei Duo's sneakers and "sizzling" with smoke.

"Hee..."

That pale hand slowly rose, its long black nails like five scalpels, aimed straight at Pei Duo's eyeballs.

Fear reached its limit, turning instead into a surge of hysterical anger.

"I'll risk it all!"

Pei Duo squeezed her eyes shut, tears welling up in them.

"Brother, if you dare to trick me, I won't let you go even as a ghost! I'll go down there and pull your oxygen tube!!"

A second before the Red Matchmaker's claws swung down.

Pei Duo tremblingly pulled her hand out of her pocket.

That dirty, crack-filled black jade pendant, which looked like it had been picked out of a trash heap, was thrust forward haphazardly by her, right into the Red Matchmaker's terrifying ghostly face!

"Get away from me!!"

The young girl's tearful roar echoed through the corridor.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

Glasses Man and Lin Sa, watching from a distance, almost laughed out loud—using a broken stone to block an s-rank fierce ghost? Had she been scared stupid?

However.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any divine miracle of golden light.

The jade pendant only emitted a faint, inconspicuous glimmer of dark light, like a flashlight with a bad connection flickering once.

But at the moment that dark light flashed.

The originally cruel, violent, and murderous Red Matchmaker acted as if she had seen some unspeakable, forbidden existence.

Her high-speed lunging motion came to a screeching halt in mid-air!

With a "crack," the massive inertia even caused her joints to dislocate; those claws, which were meant to crush Pei Duo's head, stopped stiffly three centimeters away from the jade pendant.

She was shaking.

Shaking violently.

The next second.

A scene that made Glasses Man and Lin Sa's eyes nearly pop out of their heads occurred.

That s-rank fierce ghost, the Red Matchmaker, who treated human lives like grass and killed as easily as chopping vegetables, actually had her knees buckle.

"Thud!"

A loud sound.

She knelt.

She knelt cleanly and decisively, prostrating herself completely.

Not only did she kneel, but she also pressed her bald, pale head firmly against the dusty floor, her entire body shaking like a sieve; she looked exactly like a grandson meeting a long-lost ancestor!

From that wide mouth split to the ears, which had been full of mockery just moments ago, came a muffled but utterly terrified wail:

"I... I did not know an Honored One had arrived..."

"This humble one... this humble one was blind! This humble one deserves to die!!"

"Thump!"

The Red Matchmaker kowtowed heavily toward that broken jade pendant bought for two yuan.

The floor banged loudly from the impact; her originally terrifying ghostly aura was now completely withdrawn, for fear of offending the person before her.

"Thump! Thump!"

Two more heavy kowtows, sending stone chips flying from the floor.

The corridor was deathly silent.

Pei Duo's hand holding the jade pendant froze in mid-air, tears still hanging from the corners of her eyes; she was completely stunned.

She looked down at the dirty, broken jade pendant in her hand, then at the trembling fierce ghost on the ground.

Brother... you didn't say the First Emperor of Qin had such great face?

At this moment, after a brief, deathly silence, the bullet chats in Pei Duo's livestream room completely exploded.

[??????????]

[(IP: Dragon Country) Holy crap?! Am I blind? What just happened? An s-rank Ghost King just knelt? And is kowtowing?]

[(IP: USA) What the fxxk?! Is this a special effect? This must be a hallucination! Cheating! The Dragon Country person is cheating!]

[(IP: Japan) Nani?! Impossible! Absolutely impossible! That's just a broken stone!]

[(IP: Dragon Country) Hahahaha! Where's that Japanese brat who said he'd eat sh*t while doing a handstand? I've kept it warm for you, come out and dig in!]

And at the corner not far away.

"Clang."

The "precious brass key" in Glasses Man's hand—which he had spent so much effort and risked his life to decode and obtain—slipped powerlessly and hit the ground with a crisp ring.

He and Lin Sa stood frozen like two sand sculptures weathered for a thousand years, their mouths hanging open wide enough to fit a lightbulb, their brains completely short-circuited.

Especially Glasses Man; he looked at the key on the ground that represented the "crystallization of wisdom," then at the street-stall-quality broken jade pendant in Pei Duo's hand.

An extremely absurd feeling of his worldview collapsing struck his skull like a mudslide.

"This... is this a f*cking s-rank instance?"

The clown was me all along?!

Just as everyone was questioning their lives, the Red Matchmaker kneeling on the ground seemed to feel that kowtowing wasn't enough to atone for her offense.

While prostrating herself tremblingly, she hurriedly reached into her crimson wedding dress with her ghostly hand and started rummaging.

After a moment, she pulled something out.

It was a refined key, completely pitch-black and emitting a dense ghostly aura.

The Red Matchmaker held the key high above her head with both hands as if presenting a rare treasure, even going so far as to wipe the blood off it with her sleeve before humbly offering it to Pei Duo.

The aura emitted by this key was more than ten times denser than the one Glasses Man had dropped on the ground.

The Red Matchmaker's trembling voice, filled with a desire to please, rang out again:

"My Lord... this is the key to the Earl's Study in the hidden area on the second floor. It is a small token of my regard... please accept it, and spare this humble one's worthless life..."