Chapter 57 Night Fishing

Night has not yet fallen, and the sky is filled with red clouds.

Smoke rises from Old Yang’s house.

After the ancestral hall collapsed, Lao Yang gave up the idea of offering sacrifices. Under the strong condemnation of the three people, he finally took out the fish to share.

At dinner time, Xu Zhiyan took a bite of fish and his whole face wrinkled.

Before he opened his mouth, Jiang Huaiqie couldn't help but roll up his sleeves and said viciously, "Are you the Salt Prince? Doesn't the salt in your village cost money?"

Old Yang was stunned, picked up a piece of food with chopsticks, and tasted it carefully: "It's okay."

Jinsheng picked up the fish head and handed it to Xiaoyi. The little dog, who usually had a silly and happy look on his face, immediately curled his lips and barked in dissatisfaction.

“Even dogs won’t eat it.” Jin Sheng said.

Xu Zhiyan looked at Lao Yang, whose cooking skills were despised, and knew that he had lost his sense of taste due to the worms in his body, just like those fishermen who ate worms during the previous mission.

In the end, it was Jiang Huai Que who made dinner again.

I don’t know if it was because they had already found the clue, but he caught eight fish, cooked three dishes and a soup, and looked like he had eaten the last meal and didn’t care about the next one.

This made the thrifty old Yang very sad!

Looking at the beautifully presented dish in front of him, he took a deep breath and muttered, "I should offer it to the Snake God first. I am not worthy of such a good thing..."

After listening to this, Xu Zhiyan picked up a piece of delicious fish with chopsticks with an expressionless face.

These villagers were cursed by the snake god because of their greed, but they were afraid because they were not greedy enough.

After the delicious fish was carefully cooked, it tasted so delicious that it seemed like one could swallow their tongue, even though there were no high-end seasonings in the village.

No wonder the introduction to the delicious fish says that players are welcome to take the fish away when they leave the dungeon.

The three players looked very satisfied as they ate.

This should be the most delicious thing they have eaten since entering the dungeon.

As night fell, the four of them separated to rest.

Lao Yang had just returned to his room when there was a knock on the door.

"Brother Yang, open the door. I have something to ask you." Xu Zhiyan's voice was filled with anxiety.

"What's the matter?" Lao Yang opened the door and let the person in.

Xu Zhiyan was not polite either. He dragged the only chair in the room over and said solemnly, "It seems someone died in the village this morning."

He was referring to the player who deliberately left the manhole cover open last night.

According to yesterday's inference, the evil spirits that came out of the well would only kill the villagers and not the players, but at noon two corpses were dragged out of the house.

One is the corpse of a villager, and the other is the corpse of a player.

Both bodies were in tatters, as if they had been gnawed by something.

If the death of an NPC will result in the death of the player as well, that means the current house owner NPC is bound to the player, so they don't have to steal two manhole covers.

Old Yang pursed his lips, picked up the broken cup on the table with a broken corner and drank a sip of water, then waved his hand: "It's okay, as long as we don't break any taboos."

"Taboo?" Xu Zhiyan touched his hair, looking innocent: "What taboo?"

"Of course it's what I told you! Don't leave the village at night, cover the manhole covers after the sun sets..." Lao Yang repeated what he had said before.

The system provides a lot of confusing content. If players really test them one by one, it will take a lot of time.

Xu Zhiyan nodded, and suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and smiled awkwardly: "I...I seem to have forgotten to close the manhole cover."

Old Yang shuddered all over, then relaxed.

"It's okay. I checked it last night and everything was locked."

"What I mean is, I just came back from dinner and went to get some water..." Xu Zhiyan's voice became smaller and smaller.

"You? You're fetching water at this hour?"

After saying that, Lao Yang didn't have time to scold, he threw down the cup and rushed out, still trying to persuade himself: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just a little while... nothing will happen..."

However, the opposite happened.

In the yard, a hazy black shadow exuding a sweet fragrance and with two shining red eyes was floating by the well.

Old Yang slammed on the brakes and stopped beside the yard, completely stunned.

The black shadow was not moving fast, but it was tall, bigger than any other black shadow he had ever seen. He was almost scared out of his wits. He knelt on the ground trembling and began to kowtow, muttering to himself.

"Wuwuwu, please calm down."

"I didn't mean to kill you... I just wanted to live. If you don't die, I can't live either."

"You are evildoers, and so are we..."

Xu Zhiyan appeared slowly, and couldn't help but wonder why he hadn't shown up to ask for help yet.

About two minutes later, the shadow came closer. Seeing that Lao Yang had basically lost his ability to move, he was frightened by the shadow. He pulled Lao Yang behind him and asked sternly, "Do you need my help?"

Old Yang finally reacted, crouched behind Xu Zhiyan with his head in his hands, and nodded continuously: "Yes, yes, yes, as long as you help me, I am willing to give you the ancestral treasure!"

As Lao Yang triggered keywords, game panels kept popping up.

【Main Quest Update】

[Main Quest [Part 2]: The Secret of Baishan Village]

【Task 5: Stay here. 】

[Progress: Completed]

[Mission 6: Treasure]

[Progress: 50%]

[Note: Help the villagers drive away evil spirits and protect their safety to obtain their treasures. ]

[Hint: Each villager has only one treasure in his home]

Finally the task was completed, Xu Zhiyan was delighted and immediately comforted Lao Yang: "It's okay, I'm the best at getting rid of these things! Just watch!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand, pointed a finger at the dark and tall shadow that seemed to be made of mist, and said lightly: "Get lost!"

As soon as the words fell, the black shadow retreated violently, as if hit by the sound, and retreated to the corner of the wall.

Old Yang looked at the scene in front of him coldly, stunned.

"You... who are you?"

Xu Zhiyan raised the corner of his mouth, shook his head and changed the subject: "I am more interested in your treasure."

Old Yang stood up trembling, and looked at the well without a cover with lingering fear. In the end, he didn't say anything, but led Xu Zhiyan to his room.

As soon as the two men left, a dog barking was heard from the corner where the shadows were hidden.

When Jin Sheng came over, Jiang Huaique was busy dismantling the spray bracket on the dog. He turned around and lifted a piece of cloth from the well, revealing the wooden manhole cover underneath the cloth.

It turned out that everything that just happened was planned and acted out by the three of them.

Considering that the black shadow will catch the villagers and kill them, if they accidentally kill the villagers, they will most likely be killed by the bound villagers.

There was too much uncertainty. For the sake of Lao Yang's safety and their own safety, Xu Zhiyan finally waved his hand and took out a magical and useless A-level prop from his own prop library - the black mist spray.

[Name: Black Mist Spray]

[Level: A]

[Type: Special]

[Introduction: It can turn you into a sweet black mist, suitable for parties and special events. ]

[Notes: Just spray it on, but it smells like cake.]

This spray is a special party drop in certain copies. It looks like a camouflage prop, but because of its special smell, the camouflage is full of loopholes. It is also sold at a very high price in the mall, with one bottle costing 5,000 points. It is said that it has hardly been sold so far except for players who clicked the wrong button.

As for this kind of useless prop, Xu Zhiyan not only has black ones, he also has yellow fog, red fog, white fog... God knows why there are so many strange garbage in the warehouse of the safe house!

The three people and one dog have clear division of labor.

Jiang Huaique was responsible for setting up the spray stand, Xiaoyi was responsible for playing the monster in the black fog, Jinsheng was responsible for putting the covering prop on the manhole cover, and Xu Zhiyan was responsible for deceiving Lao Yang.

Worried that Lao Yang would smell something wrong, Jiang Huaique added a little black fog to Lao Yang's soup when he was cooking at night, but the other party couldn't taste it at all.

Everything went smoothly, and when Xu Zhiyan sneaked into Jin Sheng's room as planned, he already had the "treasure" in his hand.

It was a slingshot and a small bag of white treasure insect corpses.

The insect corpse was thrown onto the table, and the three people's tasks began to refresh.

[Reward Mission Refresh]

[Reward mission: Eliminate the evil spirits in the Amber Mountain Reservoir]

【Number of kills: 0】

【Time: Tomorrow 6:00-12:00】

[Note: There are too many evil spirits in the reservoir, affecting the surrounding ecology. An elimination activity will be launched tomorrow. ]

[Tip 1: This instance does not provide main/branch point rewards. The number of evil spirits eliminated will be used as a point exchange reward.]

[Hint 2: The villagers' treasures can directly eliminate the evil spirits in the water. Of course, players can also choose other methods to reduce the number of evil spirits in the lake, but each person must reduce 10 (including 10) or more evil spirits before they can successfully leave the dungeon.]

[Hint 3: Each evil spirit is worth 500 points]

[Warning: No explosive props may be used in this instance.]

Xu Zhiyan watched the whole thing from beginning to end, frowned, and sneered, "Can't you afford to play this crappy game?"

The game panel did not respond, nor did it disappear.

It's like watching a joke quietly.

After the task appeared, the live broadcast room was filled with barrage of comments.

[Oh oh oh, what kind of unlucky guy is Xiao Baiwan? 】

[… Damn it! We are being targeted! ]

[That's right, the game is the dealer, but Xiao Baiwan and the big guy behind him must have colluded to choose to kill the bet less than 3, otherwise why would they choose this one out of so many bets? ]

[So after the game found out that they had chosen this quiz to extort money, they adjusted the content of the dungeon? ]

【Fuck! 66666! 】

[Can you change the rules of the game by your own strength? Is this the power of money? ]

The players watching the live broadcast don’t know that Xu Zhiyan actually only has one option to make money.

After his Party A account earned 9 million from the system last time, it was completely targeted by the system.

Xu Zhiyan took a deep breath and began to think about what to do.

There are about twenty insect corpses in a bag, which can allow two people to eliminate the evil spirits and leave to get points.

Jiang Huaique and Jin Sheng looked at each other and said that they had set the target during the day and would take Xiaoyi to get some more treasures later. Seeing Xu Zhiyan's dejected face and the difficulty greatly reduced with the black mist spray, the two asked him to go back and rest first and meet at five in the morning.

Xu Zhiyan, who had just been targeted by the system, was a little confused. He nodded and told the two to be careful, then returned to his room alone.

Do you want to give up the 1 million yuan capital?

No, it's not possible.

Asking him to give up the one million is more painful than killing him...

“Squeak—”

The tattered wooden door was pushed open.

Xu Zhiyan stood at the door of the room, wondering if he was dazzled.

Why did he see two snakes fighting on his bed?

No, it was the little black snake that unilaterally beat up the big white snake...

Hearing the sound at the door, the little black snake that had just been beating the big white snake suddenly stood up.

The next second, after recovering his memory, a snake god with an even larger body appeared in front of Xu Zhiyan.

It pinched the big white snake with a distressed look on its face: "You actually went behind my back to find another snake?"

"?"

Xu Zhiyan tilted his head, feeling as if he didn't quite understand the situation.

The big white snake struggled, its two little eyes full of terror and fear.

It was sleeping peacefully in the plastic bag! Suddenly a small snake rushed in and beat it up, and now it turns around and pinches it. It is really the most miserable snake in the world!

Xu Zhiyan looked at the big white snake that was almost dying from being pinched, and his whole head was full of question marks.

The words "Are you sick?" were on the tip of his tongue, but when he thought of the other person's identity, he held back.

Inside the Yunshan old house.

The scene of the snake god and the beast competing for favor was broadcasted in the live broadcast room. Different from the joy of the barrage, the atmosphere in the whole hall became more and more tense.

The table on which the shrine was placed had a big hole dug out by something in anger.

Qu Ji huddled in a corner, too frightened to go upstairs by the pressure from the ghosts and gods.

The ghosts who had just returned from other dungeon safe houses with full loads were almost crushed into pieces by the pressure as soon as they entered the door.

Even the system was unusually quiet, and no one dared to say a word.

In the end, it was the oldest translucent swollen monster who lay on the ground and spoke timidly.

"My Lord, do you remember anything?"

Although it asked this, it knew that the Lord of Ghosts must have remembered something!

Because under the hem of the ghost's clothes, a translucent and thick snake tail appeared. The tail was about as thick as a human thigh and was covered with sharp and hard black scales. It was compatible with the rest of the body. Although it did not yet have a physical body, it could already swing back and forth by clinging to the iron chain.

After a while, just when it thought it couldn't get an answer, the ghost spoke.

"...In order to improve perception, he devoured the ancient snake god's divine power and gave birth to a snake tail. Was this a wrong choice?"

There was a hint of resentment in the deep, divine voice.

He regrets it now!

Although he didn't remember why, he vaguely remembered that in order to enhance his sense of smell, he did not hesitate to kill the snake god and devour the divinity.

But now the more I look at this tail, the more embarrassing it becomes...