The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

Chapter 321-322 We’re All Spirits, Liana and the Others Appear

321: We’re All Spirits

“He just left? He didn’t clear anything up. Are we supposed to find the killer or that other thing he just said?” Ink muttered his complaint.

“Both. If I’m right, then the people outside aren’t hallucinations or illusions. The only way to truly save everyone is to figure out what is keeping all of us imprisoned here.” Ming Xi raised his glass to drink.

“What do you mean, not an illusion? Why did you change your mind?” Jier was puzzled. It went from illusion to not illusion?

Feng Wu interrupted. “They’re not illusions; they’re souls.”

“Souls?! Wait, Xiao Wu, you mean the people outside are souls? They’re the souls of people who are no longer living?!” Then weren’t everyone out there dead? This entire time, they’d been around dead people?! Ink did not feel good.

“Xiao Wu, you can tell they’re souls?” Ming Xi was surprised Feng Wu had figured it out. He’d only confirmed it for himself just a moment ago. josei

Earlier, he’d only said what he said in order to lure the mysterious man out. The results were good as he had gained some useful information.

Feng Wu hesitated before nodding. She could see what they were even though she was in a different body. Some of her innate abilities were still available, for example her vision. She could distinguish between the physical and spiritual, so she knew the people outside weren’t illusions, but were real entities.

They weren’t ordinary spirits though, but were spirits with deep running, powerful grievances.

Feng Wu didn’t understand why, despite being Zhēn, she was still able to see them.

Was it because she wasn’t possessing Zhēn but had directly become Zhēn, so her eyes could still see other people’s life force?

The flowers and trees outside were all fake, so she couldn’t hear them, but the spirits were real so she could see the difference between them and the surroundings.

“Then you knew about them this whole time?!” Jier was surprised.

Feng Wu shook her head. “No.”

Jier’s eyes widened in surprise. “But can’t you see ghosts?” Feng Wu should have been able to tell from the beginning, so how could she not know?

Even Ink and Leo were surprised.

“There is no malice or evil aura from them. They aren’t like other spirits. I only confirmed it today.” Feng Wu blinked her large eyes at them innocently.

The others were helpless in the face of such cuteness. It was criminal to be so cute!

Feng Wu wasn’t lying. As she said, the people outside weren’t like ordinary ghosts. Their bodies were very solid, unlike any spirit she had known. Because of this Feng Wu had been uncertain.

Her suspicions were only confirmed after their discussion and the chat with the mysterious person.

“I have one more thing to say. We are the same as them.”

“Same? What do you mean?” Ming Xi and the others were puzzled. They didn’t understand what she was trying to say.

Feng Wu bit her lip. “We are also spirits.”

Her words dropped like a brick hammer. What did she mean? They were also spirits? Weren’t they only in the illusion world through their subconsciousness?

“No way! How can we be ghosts too? We have real bodies!”

People from the continent knew there were two ways to enter an illusion: through physical form or through mental form. You had to have a comprehensive understanding of your body in order to enter an illusion physically. It was more dangerous as well. If you died in an illusion in your physical form, you died for real.

Using your subconscious to enter mentally was safer. To use this method, you would separate a strand from your spiritual consciousness, the strength of which would depend on how much you pulled out, and attach it to your spirit in order to experience the illusion.

Should there be any danger, that strand of subconsciousness could be eliminated without any major problems. At worse, some mental damage could occur, but there wouldn’t be any fatal injuries.

For safety reasons, most people would choose to use a sliver of subconsciousness to test out the situation before committing to entering the illusion. You had to be careful.

Most illusions weren’t dangerous, as they were meant to trap people, not kill them. Well that was, unless someone purposefully made an illusion for the sole purpose of killing others.

Those were the two main ways people from the continent knew to enter an illusion. Ming Xi and the others took it for granted that they must have entered the illusion using a strand of their subconsciousness tethered to their soul, but of course there were other ways to enter.

Only a fool would enter an illusion with their entire mind. No one would take the initiative to do so. If a subconsciousness was eliminated, the body left behind would be an empty husk without consciousness. It was the same as dying.

So for them, it was bad enough that they were forced into the illusion with their complete mind, but what Feng Wu said was even worse. It turned out they weren’t just using their mind, but were in the illusion physically with their spiritual form – their souls.

Were they already dead? Was that why they were in spirit form? Their complexions paled at this.

No! They couldn’t be dead! Ink sincerely hoped they weren’t dead!

Forcing a soul into an illusion had never been done before. It was an amazing feat no doubt.[notes] But if the soul was somehow eliminated, everything would end. There would be no chance at reincarnation.

It wouldn’t be as devastating if it had only been their full subconscious. They would die yes, but they would have had a chance to reincarnate.

Thinking of the seriousness of losing their souls made everyone sad.

322: Liana and the Others Appear

“We’ll disappear forever if we die here!” It was painful news.

Even the normally calm Ming Xi had to take a deep steadying breath. The Ancient Silver Moon kingdom had ways to reunite a destroyed consciousness to a body, but the soul. . .  there was no away to reform a soul, no one in any of the four major kingdoms knew how.

Even a true god couldn’t reform a soul once it was destroyed, never mind mere mortals.

While Feng Wu and her group were having her discussion, seven other people were also meeting for their own discussion.

The group was made up of Liana and Hart’s people.

Hart had been lucky and was doing well. His commander and deputy commander were well too. Oli[notes] was still alive as well.

Liana only had Mia.[notes] The other two guards, who had reached the castle before them, were nowhere to be found. They had most likely met with misfortune.

The last member had no affiliation with either Hart or Liana. He was an old magician and could have been considered a master in his own right. If his magic wasn’t suppressed, he wouldn’t have bothered joining forces with a bunch of young people.

“Miss Liana, what did you find?” Hart was now a gardener who specialized in trimming flowers.

“Nothing.” Liana replied bitterly.

The seven of them had gradually found each other. They were trying to find the murderer, but the culprit was hidden too well for them to discover. It was difficult to investigate with their abilities sealed.

Liana was now a pretty school girl who was one of Yanaimo’s cronies. She felt like her morals were compromised from what she had to do to play the role well.

“We must find Miss Feng Wu and her group soon. There are many people in their group. Maybe they found some useful clues.” Oli was optimistic.

The others agreed. There were only seven of them in the group currently. The others were either dead or couldn’t be found. They had to find other people to see if they could gather more clues.

“Miss, what if Miss Feng Wu is already dead?” Mia asked hesitantly.

The others sighed. So many people had died recently. There was no way to know if any of the dead were one of their own.

“We keep looking. I hope Feng Wu is OK.” Liana’s eyes dimmed. She didn’t want anything bad to happen to Feng Wu.

“We should keep looking for clues while we are a looking for Miss Feng Wu and her group,” said the mercenary’s deputy commander.

“Yes, people wouldn’t murder without reason. There must be a motive. It must have something to do with Yanaimo’s family,” hypothesized the old magician.

The most important thing was the motive. It wasn’t easy to kill so many people. Whether it was a single culprit or a group, they had to investigate every lead.

Both Liana’s group and Ming Xi’s group finished their meeting at the same time. They came to the same conclusion: find the motive, then the culprit.

There were lots of motives: killing out of anger or feeling slighted, killing out of revenge, even killing to promote self-interest.

Feng Wu’s group decided to try and find out of Yanaimo’s family had any enemies.

There were plenty of classmates who could talk about how wealthy and powerful her family was, but none who knew about her family’s enemies.

They couldn’t ask her directly, so they had to find a way to get her to reveal it herself.

The survivors arranged night patrol. There were so few of them that even the girls were recruited to patrol. Feng Wu’s team was one of the two on patrol that night.

The castle was too big, and with so many already dead, the building felt incredibly empty. The teachers got permission from Yanaimo to move everyone, including the servants, to the first floor. Scattering everyone around the castle was too dangerous.

Decreasing their living space meant less to patrol, so patrolling was easier. They also locked up large parts of the castle in order to prevent the murderer from entering any of the empty rooms.

There were two teams of five on patrol. One team was responsible for patrolling inside the castle, while the other was responsible for patrolling the outside grounds.

Ink was among the people patrolling. Through some finessing, he was able to assign Feng Wu to his group. Aside from them, there was also Annai, another boy and girl. They were all classmates.

Though night patrol was boring it was also scary. There was a constant fear that the murderer would appear and try to kill them.

They inevitably started chatting. The other boy, Chamai, was talkative so having him around made things less boring and scary.

“The murderer is really amongst us?” Cassie, the other girl in the group, asked.

“It shouldn’t be the case. We’re all classmates. If the person had the intention to kill, shouldn’t they have done it a long time ago? Why wait so long?” Annai asked.

“Maybe they didn’t have the opportunity. Think about it. If it weren’t for this isolated island and the fact that we’ve all lost our abilities, do you think the person would dare? Who knows what method they used to seal our powers? I don’t believe it isn’t one of us,” said Chamai, the talkative boy.

“That’s true, but who is trying to kill us? It’s hard to believe one of our classmates is trying to kill us. We’ve been together for over a year. We’ve had our quarrels, but for the most part we get along well enough. How can someone just think of killing us and then act on it?”

Annai's heart felt heavy as she thought about the classmates who had died. They had all been on the boat playing together.