Based on what Mu Chen had originally analyzed for Lu Xiaoyao, the simple and honest villagers had never seen anything like this before, given Lu Xiaoyao's pretentious and mysterious demeanor.

She had already frightened me so much that I was trembling with fear, and the fear in my heart kept growing.

So, their village is really that scary?

As Lu Xiaoyao spoke, she guided them to point out the unusual aspects of the village.

Once the seed of doubt is planted in a person's heart, everything will seem dangerous.

For example, a couple who had lost their child disappeared for half a month before reappearing in front of everyone, seemingly having completely emerged from the shadow of losing their child, and even becoming a fanatical believer in the mountain god.

For example, the Wang family at the end of the village had been worshipping the mountain god for many years, but one day the old man forbade any family members from worshipping the mountain god anymore. The old man died of cancer a couple of years later. Then, many years later, the family suddenly began worshipping the mountain god again and made a large sum of money from inexplicable sources.

And then there are those who, after falling seriously ill, went up the mountain to pray to the gods, and a few days later came down with a rosy and radiant complexion, able to eat a whole chicken at every meal, and so on...

With Lu Xiaoyao's deliberate guidance, as the other party revealed these things, not only did they become increasingly afraid, but even Lu Xiaoyao herself shrank back in fear upon hearing them.

The more I listen, the weirder it gets.

The more I listen, the less human he seems!

Not wanting to ask any more questions, Lu Xiaoyao tried to back away, but when she turned around, she met Mu Chen's gaze, a gaze that she didn't want to understand but had no choice but to.

Lu Xiaoyao: Boss QwQ, do you want to continue?

Mu Chen: Continue.

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So, Lu Xiaoyao had no choice but to bite the bullet and bravely continue chatting with the other party.

After being persuaded and threatened by Lu Xiaoyao, the old couple dug out all the people in the village who were indeed behaving strangely, and without exception, they all loved eating chicken.

Mu Chen kept watching one person to elicit information from the other two, while gesturing with his eyes for Julian to silently record the conversation. After that, he didn't do anything else.

They seemed to be concentrating on the conversation the whole time, yet they also seemed to be daydreaming the whole time.

Occasionally, Mu Chen would look up at the night outside the courtyard. Tonight seemed to be going on exceptionally long; it was still pitch black outside.

Lu Xiaoyao talked until her throat was dry before she finally managed to get all the information out of the old couple. Crescent Moon Village wasn't particularly big or small, but after carefully recalling what the old couple had said, Lu Xiaoyao roughly estimated in her mind that there were probably two or three hundred people with problems.

Lu Xiaoyao recalled that she had smashed the heads of dozens of corpses in the mountains, and wondered if the other party was exaggerating.

Or is there really that much?

"However, after hearing what you said, we two do have some guesses about the identity of those things."

As soon as the two elders said this, even Mu Chen looked over, wanting to hear what they had to say.

“We’ve always had a legend that some spirits in the mountains wanted to go down to the human world to enjoy its pleasures. But because they weren’t cultivated enough, they would often expose themselves to humans after they came down from the mountain and became human. So they came up with a plan.”

"What method?"

"They would pretend to be gods and ghosts, tricking ordinary people into giving them their skins to wear, so that they wouldn't be discovered when they went down the mountain."

"hiss--"

Upon hearing this, Lu Xiaoyao gasped in shock. Then, thinking of the skinless corpses in the mountains, she realized that it might really be true!

They impersonated gods to deceive them, using their physical forms to impersonate them and descend the mountain. Good heavens, these monsters!

"However, according to the older generation, these spirits are afraid of being told that they are not human, because they are guilty. The more you talk about it, the more guilty they become, until they can no longer even wear human skin."

This solution to break the deadlock appeared so suddenly that Lu Xiaoyao's eyes lit up as she stared at the elderly couple!

This NPC is amazing!

Mingmei burst out laughing instantly through Lu Xiaoyao's perspective. This was a sure way to find their weakness; otherwise, Lu Xiaoyao and her group might have faced another fierce battle.

Just then, Mingmei suddenly felt a fluctuation in the mural in front of her. She took two steps back, and sure enough, Wang Wenfei and the others rushed out of the mural at that moment.

The moment they saw the bright sunshine again, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had escaped death, and shouted, "Finally out!"

Merita laughed as she stepped forward and grabbed Mingmei's hand. Before Mingmei could ask what she was doing, she heard her shout, "Lunchboxes! I want lunchboxes! Lots of lunchboxes!"

She only realized how powerful that torch was after entering the world inside the mural. Now her transaction countdown is over, and she needs to buy a boxed lunch!

Mingmei: "..."

It startled her; she thought she'd been exposed!

[Pfft~]

Amused by Mingmei's sudden guilty conscience, Guigui couldn't help but chuckle.

Mingmei ignored Guigui and happily agreed to Merita's request, directly selling her two boxed lunches.

However, now that the story has progressed this far, Mingmei feels that the lunchbox that earned her the villagers' favor is somewhat useless, but she still doesn't say anything.

The boxed meals are so expensive this time, so the commission is also high!

Merita took the lunchbox and started showing off wildly, while Wang Wenfei noticed the mountain god statue in the main hall, which had cracked.

Moreover, the strange stone statues with ferocious animal heads and human bodies that were revealed after the mountain god statue left caused her direct physical discomfort.

"How could this statue be like this?"

"I don't know either. I just couldn't sleep at night and came to check, and then the statue cracked." Mingmei still had a pure and innocent look on her face, then looked at her and asked, "But how did you crawl out of the wall? That's so absurd."

As she spoke, she reached out and touched the wall, startling Merita so much that she almost choked on a mouthful of rice.

As a result, when Mingmei touched it, it was just an ordinary wall.

It's rock hard! And very rough!

"You're mistaken. We didn't crawl out from inside the wall; we just came in from the outside," Wang Wenfei said, lying through her teeth with a blank expression.

But Mingmei didn't cooperate, saying, "But you were the ones who shouted 'Finally out!' If it were from the outside, shouldn't it have been 'Finally in!'?"

Merita & Wang Wenfei: "..."

Seeing that they were so frightened that they couldn't even speak properly, Mingmei smiled again. Looking at their conflicted expressions, as if to say, "Oh no, I've been exposed! What should I say?" Mingmei sighed and said, "By the way, when I got up earlier, I noticed that Lu Xiaoyao and the other two seemed to have gone down the mountain. Do you want to go look for them?"

Seeing that they seemed to have forgotten about Lu Xiaoyao and the others after they came out, Mingmei could only take the initiative to remind them of the process.

Although Lu Xiaoyao and the others seem to have figured out the general truth, some things are still just guesses. Even now, Lu Xiaoyao is still hesitating because the number of suspicious people in the village doesn't match the number of skinless corpses she beat up on the mountain.

Without the supplementary evidence provided by Wang Wenfei and her team, even if they later learned how to deal with those weasels, they could easily be tricked.

Thinking this way, Mingmei had no choice but to ask them to come down the mountain as soon as possible.