Recap
After a while, Chu Shici gradually heard subtle noises in the darkness. It should be that several people were talking in low voices.
Their voices are both far and near, sometimes it seems to be coming from far away, sometimes it seems to be whispering in his ear.
Chu Shici could not find the source of the sound, no outsiders had entered the room as far as he can see.
He tried hard to make out what they were saying, but it sounded more like meaningless syllables.
A strange feeling came to Chu Shici’s heart. For a moment, he thought he was hearing voices from hell.
When the sound was about to disappear, Chu Shici finally made out a few words clearly.
“So hungry.”
“When will I be full? I’m really hungry.”
“I’m so hungry, I really want to eat him.”
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Frightened, Chu Shici couldn’t sleep and stayed up until dawn playing games with the system.
Ji Huaizhe got up on time at 7:30 the next morning.
Chu Shici raised his head to observe his expression and said tentatively: “Ge, I heard some strange footsteps last night. There were people eating in the dormitory. Did you hear it?”
Ji Huaizhe paused while changing clothes. He frowned and looked at the little doll beside the pillow: “Say it.”
Seeing Zhe-ge’s reaction, Chu Shici realized that he knew nothing about this matter.
He told Ji Huaizhe everything about last night, including what the dark shadow said after standing in front of the cabinet eating and entering Ji Huaizhe’s body.
Ji Huaizhe stopped changing his clothes, put on a sorcerer robe, and cautiously walked towards the cabinet with his wand in hand.
Chu Shici also wanted to see it.
He grabbed the hem of the sorcerer robe and was swung back and forth with the man’s movements.
Raising his wand and pointing it at the ground, Ji Huaizhe first recited a spell to conduct a simple inspection of the cabinet.
After making sure there were no poisons or hidden weapons hidden inside, he reached out and opened the cabinet door.
The cabinet in the corner has not been used for a long time. The old wooden door slowly opened, and the door shaft made a sharp sound.
There were no windows in the room, and under the candlelight, Chu Shici could barely see what was inside.
The small cabinet was filled with scrolls and books. There were also several sorcerer robes in it, all of which were abandoned by Ji Huaizhe.
Everything seemed normal, but Chu Shici remembered that the two times the dark shadow had seemed to be eating something, it had gone through the cabinets.
He motioned to Zhe-ge to look through it too.
Ji Huaizhe took out the sundries in the cabinet one by one. When he emptied the cabinet completely, the two of them saw a black hole near the bottom of the cabinet.
The hole is not big, about the width of two adult male fists.
Ji Huaizhe leaned over and looked in, but couldn’t see anything in the hole. He snapped his fingers and created a wisp of flame for illumination.
But no matter what method he uses, the cave is always dark. It was as if all the light that shone through would be swallowed up by darkness.
Chu Shici ran all the way to the back of Ji Huaizhe’s hand, tiptoed and looked inside.
The two of them studied the hole for a long time, but couldn’t see anything worth noting.
Finally, Chu Shici made a suggestion and asked Ji Huaizhe to tie a rope around his waist, and to let him into the hole to check.
Chu Shici stood at the entrance of the hole, letting Ji Huaizhe wrap the thread around his waist while sighing.
There might be danger in the hole yet he was going to take the risk. Zhe-ge just gave him a complicated look but did not stop him.
This shows that Zhe-ge only has a slight affection for him, and he does not hold much weight in Ji Huaizhe’s heart currently.
In three months, the witch hunting group will enter the sorcerer academy, with the sword hanging above their heads. If Ji Huaizhe wants to survive, he can only seize every opportunity to improve his strength.
Chu Shici knew that Zhe-ge was a very rational person and thus he must prove his practical value as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the time comes, Zhe-ge may give up on him and sign a contract with the priest instead.
After the yarn was tied, Chu Shici slowly walked towards the black hole.
When he was about to enter the black hole, he was suddenly poked in the head.
Chu Shici looked back and saw that the magic wand in Ji Huaizhe’s hand was touching him, and the gem on the top emitted a faint red light.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Ji Huaizhe retracted his wand expressionlessly. He didn’t say anything, just urged the little doll to go forward with his eyes.
Chu Shici looked down at himself and found no change.
The moment he was lowered into the black hole, a strange sticky feeling appeared around his body, as if he had stepped into a mire.
Chu Shici realized that this black hole should be a gateway to another space.
It was pitch black, no light could be seen.
Chu Shici took a few more steps forward. The temperature around him gradually dropped, and a door-shaped outline appeared faintly in the distance.
Chu Shici ran closer and saw a closed black wooden double door. There are ten heads carved on the door, both male and female, with different appearances, but the only thing they have in common is that they all look hideous and ugly.
Some have fangs, and some have two horns. Judging from their physical characteristics, they do not belong to the human race.
Most of the heads have their eyes closed, and only the top five heads have their eyes open.
Chu Shici was startled and thought they were alive. But after a long time, there was no movement on the heads.
On both sides of the door, one on the left and one on the right, stand two stone sculptures of goat skull monsters*. The sculptor’s craftsmanship is very good and the statue is extremely lifelike.
*(
something like this I think but without the skin and a bit more demonic. Source: bilibili)
After confirming that there was no danger, Chu Shici became bolder. He stretched out his short arm and tried to open the wooden door.
The wooden door is an adult human-sized door, while the doll is only palm-sized.
Chu Shici originally thought that with his small body, it would be impossible for him to open the door. Unexpectedly, with just a slight touch and the door opened by itself.
The bloody and terrifying scene that he imagined did not appear. Instead, there was an ordinary small village at the other end of the door.
Several children ran past the door laughing, and their innocent voices clearly reached Chu Shici’s ears.
Two women in simple clothes stood chatting under a tree not far away.
People in the village seemed to be unable to see this door, and no one looked in his direction.
Chu Shici was confused.
He looked back and saw the dark road behind him. A wisp of flame could be vaguely seen at the end, which was casted by Ji Huaizhe.
In front of him is a bright and warm village.
Chu Shici’s mind was filled with questions.
He pondered over his thoughts and realized that there was a hole in Zhe-ge’s cabinet. If he walked into this hole, he would come across a door with the heads of ten people engraved on it. When he opens the door, he will enter a strange village.
What the hell is this?
Chu Shici wanted to walk into the village to see the general situation, but it seemed like there was a wall in front of him and he could only hang around the door.
Several women were walking and chatting, and the sound of their conversation reached Chu Shici’s ears from afar.
The young woman holding the bamboo basket sighed: “I don’t know where my husband went. He didn’t come home for three days in a row.”
Another middle-aged woman comforted her: “Isn’t your man often absent from home? He might have gone to the city to drink and play cards.”
“That’s right, there’s nothing exciting here, no brawls and few outsiders come here. He’s tall and strong, and he’s a mercenary to boot. He’s such a good fighter, nothing will happen to him.”
Before the young woman could reply, a girl of thirteen or fourteen suddenly ran out. She cried and shouted: “Mom! My sister is missing. She didn’t go to Uncle Charlie’s house last night!”
The middle-aged woman held the child down and asked in a panic: “What did you say?!”
“The village chief has asked people to look for her, but she can’t be found anywhere.”
The girl wiped her tears and said, “Not only my sister, but the grandson of the village chief’s grandfather has also disappeared. The uncles and aunts in the convoy said that no outsiders have been in the village, and no one has left. Yet everyone suddenly disappeared!”
The middle-aged woman lost her calm when she heard that her eldest daughter was missing. She was helped away, and as the people left, the woman’s heart-wrenching cries became smaller and smaller.
The originally peaceful village seemed to have encountered some changes. Villagers kept passing by the door, their steps were hurried and their faces flustered.
Chu Shici wanted to continue taking a look, but the wooden door behind him suddenly started to shake on its own.
Then a vague and low sound of conversation reached Chu Shici’s ears.
The voices appeared seemingly far yet seemingly close, he can’t tell where it was coming from.
The sound was very familiar to him. When Zhe-ge opened his eyes last night, he heard this sound.
Chu Shici felt that the situation had changed and it was not suitable to stay here for a long time.
He turned around and started running back. He paused as he ran past the doorway, hesitating whether to close the door.
Just when he reached out to push the door close, the system, which had been silently watching the entire show, suddenly said, “Fuck! The goat head is moving!”
When Chu Shici heard this, he looked up and saw that the stone sculptures originally standing on both sides of the door had opened their eyes at some point.
The monster’s goat head turned back and forth, as if looking for intruders.
After turning around a few times, they saw the little doll who was about to sneak away.
Hearing the heavy footsteps behind him, Chu Shici urged his short legs on and ran towards the entrance of the cave with all his strength.
But his calves were too short, so the goat head only needed to take one step forward to catch up with him.
The goat’s hooves, which were several times bigger than him, stepped down directly on him.
Chu Shici had no time to dodge, so he could only pull the yarn on his body hard, hoping that Zhe-ge outside the hole would pull him out.
The yarn stretched instantly, and he could clearly feel a strong pulling force, pulling him out.
But the goat’s hooves fell faster than Ji Huaizhe pulling on the yarn.
The moment the goat’s hooves touched Chu Shici’s head, a red light emerged from the voodoo doll and enveloped him.
The red light protected Chu Shici, and at the same time launched a counterattack to knock the goat-headed man away. The monster roared angrily, and its tall body fell backwards.
The moment he was pulled out of the cave, Chu Shici finally heard those vague whispers.
They were saying, ‘So hungry.’
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Ji Huaizhe knelt on one knee in front of the cabinet, holding a piece of yarn in his hand.
The dark hole at the bottom of the cabinet was quiet, and no sound could be heard.
A few minutes later, the yarn suddenly started to shake around. Ji Huaizhe pulled hard on the yarn and the doll tumbled out.
The voodoo doll was emitting a faint red light which indicated that the protective array he had left on the doll was activated.
The little thing drooped his head, as if he was frightened.
Ji Huaizhe didn’t stay too long. He took a few steps away from the cabinet and looked at the hole in the cabinet warily.
After a while, the entrance of the hole remained unchanged.
Ji Huaizhe spread out his palm and looked down at the doll: “What’s inside?”
Chu Shici recounted what he saw in detail.
He hesitated and said: “The dark shadow is looking for food in the cabinet. The hole in the cabinet is connected to a wooden door. Behind the door is a small village. Many people are missing in the village…Ge, do you think that the people who are missing…are…eaten by the shadow?”
Chu Shici quickly denied this conjecture himself, “No, the hole is too small, and normal people can’t get in.”
Ji Huaizhe frowned: “No need to go in, they can just put their arm in.”
“How can they reach it? The entrance to the cave is quite far from the door.”
After Chu Shici finished speaking, he saw Ji Huaizhe’s expression became a little strange.
He compared the length of the yarn to his arm. “The distance you just walked is only a little longer than my arm. If you press your body close to the cabinet, your fingertips should be able to touch the door you mentioned.”
Chu Shici was speechless for a moment.
It turns out it’s not that the road is too far, but that his legs are too short.
Ji Huaizhe asked him a few more details and finally came to a conclusion.
The black hole in the cabinet should be a teleportation array created by someone. The door with the human heads carved on it at the end is a formation within a formation.
Two transmission arrays form a linked network.
All they had to do was to enter the passage through the black hole and they will be teleported to another place through the wooden door.
The voodoo doll can only see the village but cannot go in, possibly because the teleportation array has not yet been activated.
Chu Shici had been observing Ji Huaizhe’s expression and found that Zhe-ge was also confused and did not know anything about it.
Ji Huaizhe was thinking about how to resolve this problem. From the corner of his eye, he saw the little dark coloured doll tilting his head and staring at him with beady eyes.
Ji Huaizhe pondered for a moment, thinking that the little doll probably wanted a compliment.
He gently touched the doll’s head with his fingertips, “Well done.”
The voodoo doll had no mouth, but Ji Huaizhe felt that the doll seemed to smile happily after hearing his words.
His eyes softened slightly, Ji Huaizhe touched the doll twice more before putting him into the pocket of his robes.
At the same time, Chu Shici heard a notification coming from the background of the system.
[Add 1 point to the vitality value, and the current vitality value is 9/100.]
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The priest was imprisoned for a night before the sorcerer released him.
The wooden drawer was soundproof so he couldn’t hear anything outside.
When he was let out of the drawer, the sorcerer was packing up his textbooks and was about to head to class with the little witch. His competitor was lying on the sorcerer’s skull mask.
The moment the two looked at each other, the dark coloured doll raised an arm and waved it at him.
The priest couldn’t understand what he meant, but he could guess that it was a taunting gesture.
The sorcerer had no intention of taking the priest doll out, so he closed the door and left without even looking at him.
Alone in the dormitory, Vicente had a strong sense of crisis.
The sorcerer has not signed a contract with the dark coloured doll and he has not made his decision yet. But there was a clear difference in his attitude towards the two dolls.
This shows that he knows rationally that he needs the priest doll, but emotionally he prefers the dark coloured doll.
The priest didn’t know whether the sorcerer’s rationality would prevail over his sensibility in the end. He only knew that he couldn’t sit still and wait for death.
Vicente paced around on the table a few times, picked up the quill, jumped to the ground, and began to draw a formation on the floor of the dormitory.
The sorcerer had not known the doll for a long time, and at most they had a slight affection for him.
Before their relationship heats up and the sorcerer can’t help but protect the doll, Vicente decides to kill the evil spirit living in the doll. Only by killing his only rival, can he become a servant of the Son of God.
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Chu Shici sat above the male protagonist and looked around curiously.
The Sorcerer Academy was not as grand as he imagined, and could even be considered crude.
The three-story building made of pure wood is where students take their cultural classes. Several large tents not far away are their canteens.
As for facilities such as playgrounds, the college does not have them. There are many woods around, where sorcerer apprentices practice witchcraft.
Everything in front of him was very different from what Chu Shici saw in the book.
In the early days of the original novel, the college’s infrastructure was also very poor.
One day, a dwarf caravan passed through the Erya Mountains and spent a night at the Sorcerer Academy. The male protagonist successfully won the heart of the president’s daughter with his handsome appearance and charming personality.
In order to pursue the male protagonist, the young lady of the dwarves offered to help the sorcerer academy. The male protagonist rejected her pursuit, but he did not reject her funding.
Relying on the male protagonist’s honey trap, all the teachers and students in the school were able to move into new dormitories and live a good life.
Now that the male protagonist is replaced by Zhe-ge, Chu Shici can imagine the scene at that time.
The young lady of the dwarves showed her love to Ji Huaizhe and expressed her desire to have a relationship with him, but Zhe-ge refused without hesitation.
The dwarf was not tall, reaching Ji Huaizhe’s waist at most.
Their body shape looks too much like a child, he is not able to cross the barrier in his heart as he will feel guilty in tricking a child.
No matter how the young lady behaves, she will not appear in Ji Huaizhe’s mate selection range.
Later, in order to avoid this trouble, Zhe-ge would probably hide in the dormitory and thank guests behind closed doors.
The refusal was straightforward and there was no gift giving in the non-existent courtship period. Without a response and seeing the male god’s face, the girl’s enthusiasm will soon dissipate, and there will be no subsequent plot of the dwarves funding the academy.
Looking at the dilapidated and crude sorcerer academy in front of him, Chu Shici felt a little emotional.
The personalities of the male protagonist and Zhe-ge are so different, they will make completely different choices when faced with the same options, which ultimately leads to a serious deviation from the original novel in the development of plotline.
He couldn’t tell which one choice was the best, but no matter what, in Chu Shici’s heart, his Zhe-ge was always the best.
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In order to make himself look more useful, Chu Shici was extremely attentive in class.
Every spell the teacher taught was memorized. After class, he also looked through Ji Huaizhe’s notes, trying to learn something new.
Looking down at the little doll in his hand who was studying hard, Ji Huaizhe tapped his head with a quill, “Can you understand?”
The little doll clapped his hands and said, “I have learned everything! Ge, I will go back and perform them for you tonight!”
Ji Huaizhe took off his goat skull mask and said, “Don’t call me Ge anymore, Ji Huaizhe is my full name.”
Chu Shici nodded and shouted naturally: “Zhe-ge!”
Ji Huaizhe pursed his lips and looked away unnaturally.
He originally wanted the doll to be like Lilith and call him Ji.
Ji Huaizhe’s face was expressionless, and Chu Shici couldn’t guess whether he approved or not.
However, the vitality value has increased a bit, so his Zhe-ge probably likes this name.
Finding that he had no objection, Chu Shici pushed himself closer to him and called him Zhe-ge non-stop. That clingy dependency made Lilith look over slightly.
She held her chin up and smiled: “Ji, your doll is so cute. Is there really an evil spirit inside? This is the first time I have seen an evil spirit with this kind of personality.”
As she said this, she handed over her scarecrow, “I want to play with it. Can we exchange?”
Ji Huaizhe glanced at her coldly, grabbed the little doll running around, and stuffed it into his pocket.
Lilith rolled her eyes and shook her head helplessly, “Ji, we can be considered friends, it’s just a doll. Don’t be so stingy.”
Ji Huaizhe ignored her.
“To be honest, you have a really bad personality. You are cold to everyone and not polite to anyone at all. Stop studying all the time and attend more parties. Otherwise, it will be difficult to make friends the way you are now.”
After Lilith finished speaking, she stretched out her hand to him: “Take the first step and start by exchanging toys with your friends.”
Ji Huaizhe was silent for a long time, then glanced at her from the corner of his eye and said, “We are not friends.”
Lilith’s eyes widened: “What are you talking about?”
“You have an ulterior motive for approaching me. I know you are using me to make money. Stop adding love potions into my food. I can smell it.”
Ji Huaizhe’s tone became even colder: “I’m not as stupid as you think, stay away from me.”
Chu Shici stuck his head out of his pocket and watched the two people arguing.
Lilith said ten sentences, while Zhe-ge only replied with one sentence. But Zhe-ge always excels when it comes to ridiculing people, and one sentence is worth ten.
Lilith instantly became furious. She pointed at Ji Huaizhe’s nose and shouted: “You don’t even have anyone else in this college who cares about you. I am the only one who is willing to talk to you, yet you still treat me like this! Let me tell you straight. You are dumb! A freak!”
Ji Huaizhe narrowed his eyes, his expression remained indifferent, but Chu Shici could tell that Zhe-ge was sulking.
The two argued for a long time, and Chu Shici finally knew what was going on.
There are many people in this college who have a crush on Ji Huaizhe, but Zhe-ge is too aloof and unapprovable to get close to, so his suitors think of his roommate Lilith.
In the beginning, they only asked her to help them deliver their love letters and small gifts.
Overtime, as the love letters fell into obscurity, someone thought of something evil.
People who take the love potion will have a strong desire to hug and kiss others. It won’t make them unconscious, but it will stimulate a desire for love and exercise.
Lilith took the suitor’s money and secretly poured the love potion into Ji Huaizhe’s drink and food.
She knows that after he eats it, he will change from a cold iceberg to a romantic young man, and then everyone will have the opportunity to pursue him. His bottom line will also be lowered, making it easier for him to have relationships with others.
Ji Huaizhe had seen through her tricks and changed several glasses of water in succession, and stared at the plate while eating, but Lilith would still secretly try to drug him.
He endured this for more than a month.
Ji Huaizhe exposed her and broke up this friendly relationship with his roommate.
Looking at Lilith walking away, Chu Shici called out to Zhe-ge worriedly.
Ji Huaizhe said nothing. He gently stroked the little doll’s head with his fingertips, his cold eyes gradually softening.
He no longer has to work hard to maintain false friendships, he has a little doll of his own.
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T/N: I’m really sorry this chapter was up late!
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