The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

409: Strange Spirit Body

There were only those few entries in the notebook.
It didn’t look like the person who wrote it had been in the city long enough to write much.

They were able to infer some things from the entries however.
The people who came to the city eventually turned into the czar’s most hated person, his uncle.
It wasn’t just their appearance that changed, but most likely their sense of identity also changed.
In essence, their previous memories were erased and they became someone else entirely.

It wasn’t different from dying.

“Finding these things aren’t helping us locate the exit.” Yifu was discouraged.

Everyone’s mood overall was bad.

“Did everyone search carefully? Palaces tend to have secret rooms.
Maybe the exit is in one these rooms?” Zi Cheng offered after thinking it over.

“I searched very carefully; I practically dug up the floor.
There were a few hidden rooms, but none had the exit.” Olifuman said.

It was about leaving the city.
Who wouldn’t search as diligently as they could? The other people weren’t fools and had already considered the possibility of a secret room in the palace.
Many of them came from powerful families, so the concept of a hidden room wasn’t unusual to them.
There was no way they would have missed it in their search.

But they had searched everywhere in the palace and couldn’t find the exit, so perhaps it wasn’t in the palace?

It was possible it was so somewhere else in the city.
If it was, it would significantly increase their scope and would be much more time consuming.

The ancient city was strange so it was unwise to stay in it for too long, but unfortunately, they had no other choice.

“Wait, there’s a place we haven’t looked.” Ming Xi said suddenly.

“That’s right! There is one place we haven’t checked.” Caesar quickly picked up on Ming Xi’s train of thought.

“The garden!” both said in unison.

Suddenly, everyone realized it was true.
They had completely overlooked the garden.
They all rushed over to the garden.

As everyone did so, the king spoke to Feng Wu.

“Xiao Wu, there’s a spirit watching you from the corner over there.
I already sent someone to contact her.
She says she has something to tell you and would like to speak to you alone.”

Feng Wu agreed after thinking it over.
She looked at the group rushing to the garden.
She didn’t tell Ming Xi, but instead followed behind the king to find the spirit that wanted to talk to her.

The spirit was a strange thing to see.
It was the first time Feng Wu had seen such an entity.

The transformation was clearly incomplete.
Her face was split with one side being male and the other side being female, even the hair was two different colors.
It was a scary image to behold.

But Feng Wu was not frightened, just surprised.

“You’re here.
Can you see us? I heard from someone that you can see us.
I didn’t believe it.
I still can’t believe it! You can really see us!” The strange woman cried so hard.
It should have been a pitiful image, but with her, it turned into an image from a horror movie.

“Don’t cry.” Feng Wu didn’t like people crying in front of her.
Master had said crying never solved anything.
Crying was just a way to avoid something and the strong never avoided.

Feng Wu, who had striven to be a strong and powerful person since childhood, never liked other crying children.

“Who are you? You’re different from them.” Rui Baby flew around the girl.

“My name is Small Jade and my family and I have lived in the desert for generations.
It wasn’t until the czar unified the desert people and created the desert city that I wanted come here to find a job.
I was just an ordinary girl.
I never expected the city to be like this.
My thoughts are completely different, and now I won’t ever get to see my parents again.” Thinking about it made Small Jade cry even more.

Feng Wu wasn’t good with comforting people and this strange girl seemed possessed by some kind of weeping god – she cried so much!

Feng Wu stared.
This girl had to be very weak if she cried so much.

“Why do you look different from those others?” Rui Baby was curious.

“If you can see us, then you must know all of us look identical.
Do you know about the king’s curse?”

“Some. . . ” Feng Wu told her the story she heard from Ming Xi.

“What you know isn’t the full story; it isn’t entirely correct.”

“Not correct?” Rui Baby asked.

“It isn’t the people who are cursed, but the city itself.
Once you enter, you begin to change into that person.
We’re trapped here by the king.
Until the transformation is complete, no one is allowed to leave.” Her weeping intensified.

Rui Baby’s expression changed and his eyes got big.
“What do you mean by the people who enter will become like those people? It includes Xiao Wu and the others?”

The woman nodded timidly.
“Yes.
Including you.
The only way to stop it is to kill the one who made the curse, the king.”

White Lotus transformed into a tiny snake and climbed up Feng Wu’s shoulder.
He starred hard at the spirit.
“You want us to kill the czar?”

“Yes, please help us.
We have no other options.
If he is not killed, then all of us will remain imprisoned here forever.
We can’t leave and must keep bearing this face!” The woman begged softly.

“Hold it right there! You still haven’t told us why you’re different from the others.
You’ve just been rambling on and on about other stuff.” White Lotus kept his cold gaze on her and successfully forced her gulp down her tears.

“I. . .  the reason I’m different from the others is because I died before my transformation completed.
The king’s two most loyal servants sealed all of us inside the city after he died.
We were trapped as funerary objects, forced to remain in here forever.

At that time, I was only partially changed, so that’s why I look the way I look now.”