Chapter 64: Happy Event in the Mountain Village 24 Everyone immediately cut their bodies...

After an unknown amount of time, the snakes that were wrapped around her body suddenly disappeared. An Rao opened her eyes and saw Bai Chuan's chin, which was neatly lined and slightly bluish. The dazzling white feathers were gently caressing Bai Chuan's neck as he ran. What a stunning man!

"Okay," Baichuan put An Rao down, "We are far away from the Guo family."

"So those snakes are all illusions, right?" An Rao said. "Rule 2 of the Haunted House Tour Rules states that the ghosts in the haunted house are played by the staff or are sound and light effects. It is forbidden to beat up the haunted house staff. Those snakes are actually sound and light effects, right?"

"Yes, I didn't let you look back because I didn't want to affect you. At this time, it's a sound and light effect, but if you get injured and bleed because of the shock, who knows what will happen."

An Rao: ...

"I'm sorry." Baichuan apologized, "I shouldn't have distrusted you so much."

A man like Baichuan actually apologized! An Rao was a little shocked. He didn't know how to react for a moment, so he just waved his hand and said it was okay.

After returning to the Zheng family, An Rao called Su Ming and Shi Yirou to room 201. An Rao briefly explained the origin of the booklet to Su Ming and Shi Yirou, and the four of them studied this mysterious booklet together.

Through a series of guesses, forced explanations and irresponsible translations, the four people finally figured out the main purpose of the book.

The book introduces how to worship the temple, how to support the master of the temple, the black snake, how to pray, and the blessings that the temple bestows on believers in exchange for incense, including but not limited to various evil curses and evil spells.

"Look here," Shi Yirou pointed to a pottery jar in the book, "Isn't this round bottom the same as the one you found in Wei Ronger's room?"

"Very similar!" An Rao looked at it for a while and then flipped through the entire book again. "Only here does this round-bottomed pottery jar appear."

"So what is this chapter about?" Su Ming, a level 10 wizardry enthusiast but a Muggle, was excited.

"Soul-killing Formation."

"Soul-Killing Formation?" All four heads leaned over the books. They had never loved studying so much in their lives.

"Those who become evil spirits after death are the ones who hope to marry the one who died unexpectedly and have the most resentment. Ten living people should be thrown into a pottery jar to make a soul altar. A ten-star soul-killing formation should be formed around the coffin. When the evil spirit returns to the soul on the seventh day, the formation can be activated to break the evil spirit's soul and eliminate it from the universe, forever ending reincarnation."

In simple terms, if a woman who was killed by her lover turns into a fierce ghost, she needs to cast a spell to seal ten living people into clay pots to make a soul altar, and then set up the formation according to the regulations, and wait until the seventh day of the soul's return to cast a spell to kill her until not a trace of her soul is left.

Eternal reincarnation, what a vicious formation this is, it doesn't even allow her soul to continue to exist in the world.

Everyone was silent for a long time. The room was as cold as an ice cellar. Shi Yirou shuddered and asked in an almost inaudible voice: "Who would use such a cruel method to treat a girl with such an unfortunate fate..."

"Who else could it be? Aren't the people who fear her the most her parents who are worse than pigs and dogs and that bastard Cheng Lin?" Su Ming snorted.

"Cheng Lin is among the players, so," An Rao pursed his lips, "there are only Old Zheng and Sister Wang."

Everything was revealed at this moment. Zheng Baodi's parents were afraid of their daughter's wronged soul, so they prayed to the snake god in the temple to destroy their daughter's soul. The snake god responded to their prayers and told them that they needed ten living people as materials for the soul altar to destroy Zheng Baodi's soul.

The snake god is the biggest boss behind the scenes. It is the one who split everyone into two groups, the real players and the substitute players, the moment they entered the haunted house. The substitute players exist in the real haunted house, while the real players exist in the illusion created by Zheng Baodi. The snake god told the substitute players through Zheng Baodi's parents that as long as they can put the real players into the soul altar, they can replace the real players and live as real humans. Otherwise, on the seventh day, the evil spirits will come to claim their lives and no one will survive.

In order to survive and for that coveted identity, the substitute player will of course try every means to lure the real player into the trap, and luring himself in is of course a very simple matter.

So, Zheng Baodi's parents abandoned Zheng Baodi, and Cheng Lin also abandoned Zheng Baodi, and even after Zheng Baodi died. Her parents abandoned Zheng Baodi again. As for the player, the haunted house allows the player to abandon himself.

What a perfect play.

"Let me count the heads," Shi Yirou said, counting on her fingers. "Those who died after receiving the bride's gift are Fang Qingqing and Gao Zhifei. The others who didn't receive any gifts, such as Wei Ronger, Wang Quanmin, and He Xin, were killed by their own stand-ins. But no matter what, the ten soul altars cannot be gathered together, so their evil plan cannot succeed."

"The question now is, I didn't see Mr. and Mrs. Zheng in the real haunted house, and now I don't see them in the fantasy world. Where did they go? Since everyone in the village is dead, where are they?"

"Speaking of Mr. and Mrs. Zheng," Su Ming rubbed his arms, "I always feel that they are very weird. They are like dummies covered with human skin. Their every move reveals a sense of stiffness. They look much more fake than those villagers!"

"Because the village head and his wife are still alive," Bai Chuan spoke at this time, "the illusion can only make the dead come alive. For example, the other villagers in the illusion move just like living people. Since the villagers who look alive are actually dead, then the two who look dead should be alive, but they are just hiding because of the snake god."

"I agree with Baichuan's opinion. The village head and his wife must have been protected by the snake god, so Zheng Baodi was unable to find or kill them."

"Are we going to help her kill her parents?" Shi Yirou said in shock. "They are human beings, living people. We can't kill them!"

"But don't these two old guys deserve to die?" Su Ming said passionately.

"No, we won't kill them," An Ran stroked the booklet in her hand, her voice suddenly becoming strangely gentle, "Since Zheng Baodi is going to hold a wedding, we have the groom, the wedding banquet, and the dowry, so what else is missing?"

"She has never received love and attention from her parents in her life. What she desires most is probably to have a grand, gorgeous and perfect wedding with her parents' loving blessings."

An Rao remembered that in the pirate ship, fulfilling the princess' wish was the key to passing the level. Now that all the truth has come to light, looking back at the experiences of everyone after entering the illusion, it is not difficult to find that Zheng Baodi, who has now become a ghost who kills people without blinking, has a strong and direct wish. She wants a grand wedding, but can't find her parents to attend. She has tried to use paper people to create her parents in the illusion, but the parents she created were stiff and numb, and did not fit her ideal image of parents at all.

So what to do?

How can we get Zheng Baodi’s parents to attend the wedding?

"Do we really have to kill Old Zheng and Sister Wang before they can attend the wedding?" Shi Yirou frowned. Although they have bad character and are not worthy of being parents, they are living people after all!

"No, it's useless for us to kill. Except for those of us who are players participating in the haunted house game, the others who entered this illusion were killed by Zheng Baodi. That is to say, as the creator of the illusion, everything had to go through her hands." Baichuan analyzed.

"And it is obvious that Zheng Baodi cannot kill them, or rather, she does not want to kill them. She wants the true blessing from her parents, not the blessing from the puppets she created." An Rao added. It is easy to understand that no matter how sweet the illusion is, it cannot compare to a real nod. Just like him, he would rather get a simple apology from those who once abandoned him than regain their favor in delusion.

"I thought of someone!" Su Ming, who had been silent for a while, suddenly became excited, "Zheng Duoyu!"

Ah, Zheng Duoyu!

"I've always wondered why this guy always appears suddenly and disappears suddenly. When he disappears, no one cares about him, but when he appears, he is always under close surveillance by Aunt Li and others. I originally thought it was because he was a fool who was disliked by others, but later I found out that he is not stupid at all, and he can see the corpses all over the yard and the fake us! He...he..." Su Ming rubbed his hands, excited and incoherent.

"He can travel between illusion and reality." Bai Chuan helped Su Ming summarize.

"Perfect! Let's figure out how he did it and do the same!" An Rao clapped his hands.

"But I haven't seen him for a long time..." A boy is a boy, he can switch between happiness and frustration faster than anyone else.

"I have an idea," Shi Yirou said hesitantly, "but it's based on my experience watching horror movies, so it might be a little ridiculous..."

"It doesn't matter. No one knows what to do now. This booklet hasn't been written yet. There's nothing wrong with brainstorming." An Rao's voice was clear and gentle, always making people feel at ease.

"Based on the current situation, the bride ghost, the soul altar soul killer and the like have not actually broken through the scope of folk horror. In fact, there is another very common character in folk horror, that is, people with yin and yang eyes or the ability to communicate with yin and yang. Generally speaking, this kind of person can travel between yin and yang because of a deficiency in the three souls and seven spirits. As for why there is a deficiency," Shi Yirou paused, "it may be innate, or it may be created later. One of the ways to create it is a huge shock, which is the so-called frightening away of the soul. Zheng Duoyu is obviously so good at studying, but now he is sometimes normal and sometimes stupid. He should be frightened by the scene of corpses all over his house, and happened to become a person who can travel between illusion and reality."

"In that case, why don't we try to scare the two elders?" An Rao nodded and looked up at Bai Chuan and asked.

"Maybe it's feasible." Baichuan also agreed.

"Then let's do it tonight. Tonight is when Zheng Baodi is active. I'll make myself bleed continuously before going into the haunted house to find where Old Zheng and his wife are hiding. Then I'll find a way to bring them to Zheng Baodi. This will scare the old couple crazy."

"Tomorrow is the sixth day. Time is running out. We might as well get everything done in one go and arrange everything else. We should be ready to hold the wedding and escape at any time," Baichuan said.

"Isn't it a seven-day buffet?" Su Ming was puzzled.

"Seven days is the final deadline. It is also the day when the seventh soul returns to kill again. It is the date of our death. The Zheng family stipulates that the wedding banquet is for three days. Every day after that is for Zheng Baodi to wait for her parents to appear. If they don't show up on the seventh day, she will probably start killing indiscriminately." An Rao explained patiently. An Rao himself was also very puzzled as to why he was so patient with this kid. After thinking about it, he couldn't understand the reason and could only conclude that he and this kid were destined to be together.

"Once we enter the real haunted house, we will definitely be dealing with our fake selves, and even face teammates whose authenticity we don't know. They have all our memories, and they may even be spying on us at this time. We can't think of any secret codes in advance to avoid being known by them. We can only improvise when the time comes." An Rao reminded.

This reminder makes everyone feel heavy.

"Then let's split up," An Rao clapped his hands, "Watch the time on your wristbands at night. When the lights go out, everyone should cut their bodies and keep bleeding."

"good!"