Chapter 149

Xiaoqing returned home, and Shen Yunzhe stayed with her all the time. The young mother started cooking in the dilapidated house, saying that she wanted to make Yaya's favorite food.

Shen Yunzhe kept listening to the woman's chatter, and she didn't care even though she didn't respond.

Xiaoqing's home is Erniu's home, and it is not far from the houses assigned to Pingchu and He Yufeng. They were secretly looking here from a distance and were caught by Shen Yunzhe.

"What are you doing?" Shen Yunzhe asked them.

"We're just observing to see if there's anything wrong." Ping Chu said, "We didn't expect your current identity to be Yaya."

Shen Yunzhe hissed, "To be specific, it should be the Yaya in Xiaoqing's imagination. The real Yaya is dead."

"We guessed it." He Yufeng said, "Can we go over now?"

Shen Yunzhe was not very sure. He did not know what the current situation in the mountain village was, nor was he sure whether these people in the mountain village were human or ghosts, especially Xiaoqing. The woman was pitiful and pathetic, but it was precisely because of her pitifulness and pathetic nature that she was most likely to become the core weird creature in the game field.

So she herself is a very dangerous existence.

Just then, Shen Yunzhe heard a voice behind him.

"Huh? Are you the new kids?" Xiaoqing appeared behind him. He turned around and saw Xiaoqing, her hair disheveled, staring at them. "Are you here to play with Yaya?"

"Can you see Yaya too?"

Shen Yunzhe paid attention to her eyes and found that in her eyes he still looked like Yaya, and Ping Chu and He Yufeng also seemed to be teenagers.

Ping Chu and He Yufeng looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

Xiaoqing looked at them expressionlessly. After a moment, as if suddenly enlightened, she said, "I understand. Children are different from adults. Children's hearts are pure. They can see things that adults can't. I knew that Yaya must exist."

"That's great, that's great. Yaya, you have to have fun. Mommy will go cook for you."

Then she said to Ping Chu and He Yufeng attentively: "If you want to stay for dinner, Auntie will cook your portion."

Xiaoqing said this and went back to herself.

Ping Chu and He Yufeng breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to Shen Yunzhe's side.

"Why are you here?" Shen Yunzhe said, "I'm now in Yaya's shoes. I can't leave Xiaoqing's side, so I have a lot of limitations."

He Yufeng nodded. "We came here because of the news that a senior said Xiaoqing might know a way to leave, so we wanted to test it out. Since you're here, maybe it's safer. There should be other seniors who can find Xiaoqing."

"So we're just here to see if there are any other clues."

Shen Yunzhe nodded. "Or is it your official internal coded text?"

"Yeah." He Yufeng said, "Shen Yunzhe, you have to be careful. Yaya's identity might be very scary. If you have any problems, don't try to hold on. Run when you need to."

"I'm not stupid." Shen Yunzhe led them into the house. "I took a general look before and didn't find anything strange. Can you check again?"

Xiaoqing was busy in the kitchen. Pingchu and He Yufeng separated tacitly and looked for clues in different places. Shen Yunzhe leaned against the kitchen door and looked at Xiaoqing, one to make sure that Xiaoqing would not suddenly change, and the other to prevent Xiaoqing from meeting them alone.

This is extremely dangerous.

Ping Chu and He Yufeng were indeed professionals. They quickly searched the room thoroughly and returned as quickly as possible without being noticed.

They came to the door again.

"How is it?" Shen Yunzhe asked.

"Yes." Ping Chu nodded, "It's on the beam."

"I saw it too." He Yufeng frowned. "It's amazing that they could climb up there. It's hard to be discovered. And how did they climb up there without leaving any traces? It's strange."

The two people quickly sorted out what they saw and finally came up with new information.

[Ya Ya is dead! Don't touch her! She's a strange creature!]

After reading this message, Ping Chu and He Yufeng fell silent. They all turned to look at Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe had a blank expression on his face. They knew what these two were thinking without asking.

They coughed and continued to read the news below.

[Don't face Xiaoqing alone! Don't be alone in the same space with Xiaoqing!]

"It seems there's still danger." Ping Chu singled out this word. "If you can say that, it probably means someone died in the process."

"Yes, there was blood on the beams, too."

They were silent for a few seconds, and finally chose to continue reading.

Many people are buried in the cemetery. Each villager is assigned a grave, meaning that all deceased villagers belong to the village. The graves contain messages left by their ancestors. When buried, each official will place the cause of death on the body, and the graves can be dug.

[Don't worry, no one wants to be buried in a place like this.]

He Yufeng silently recorded the news in his notebook. He had sorted out a lot of information so far and integrated all the news he could see.

Just like those official predecessors who died here, record all the information that can be summarized. If there is no way to get out alive, leave it to the next person trapped inside. One day, someone will leave here with this information.

That’s all the news this time. Shen Yunzhe looked at them.

"Are you going to dig a grave?"

"Not yet." He Yufeng breathed a sigh of relief. "For the time being, we want to understand Xiaoqing's plot setting first. Since you put yourself in Yaya's shoes, it will be very convenient for us. Whether it's Yaya or Xiaoqing, they may be very important characters."

Ping Chu also nodded, "It's said above that we can't meet Xiaoqing alone, so the two of us will act together, even though we have fewer people entering this time."

If Shen Yunzhe is not counted, there are only these two people. If one of them dies, Xiaoqing's line will be ruined.

"Okay then." Shen Yunzhe was still thinking about the chilblains on Xiaoqing's hands. He pointed to a pile of weeds nearby and said, "Do me a favor."

Ping Chu and He Yufeng looked at each other, "What?"

Then they squatted beside the weeds and began to pick, wondering as they went.

"Can this grass really cure frostbite?"

"I'm a doctor, if I say yes, then yes."

"I don't have any information about you being a doctor." He Yufeng said as he picked at her. "Shen Yunzhe, an orphan, excelled in his studies and was the top scorer in the liberal arts class that year. After graduation, he joined the company assigned by the school and has been working there ever since. Where did you become a doctor?"

Shen Yunzhe sat on the stone with his legs crossed, not at all nervous about He Yufeng's questioning.

He even said proudly, "Can't I just learn by myself?"

"Okay, very good." He Yufeng held up the weeds he had picked out. "Are these enough?"

"That's enough. Let's boil some water for her to drink." Shen Yunzhe looked at Xiaoqing in the room. "The conditions here are not good. We don't have what we need. We can only try. If we don't treat her hand, it will really become useless."

After entering the room with the grass, Ping Chu and He Yufeng looked at each other and started playing rock-paper-scissors. In the end, Ping Chu, who lost, wailed silently. He walked behind Xiaoqing with the herb.

"Auntie." Ping Chu called reluctantly.

To be honest, judging by their age, they estimated that Xiaoqing should be about the same age as them, but in Xiaoqing's eyes, they should be teenagers and should call her aunt.

Xiaoqing turned around and looked at Pingchu, her eyes devoid of any emotion.

"Auntie, this is for you." Ping Chu gave her the grass in his hand, "This is what Yaya gave us. She said that you can boil water to drink, which can cure diseases."

"Treatment? Yaya gave it to mom?"

Xiaoqing looked at Shen Yunzhe expectantly, and Shen Yunzhe nodded, which was considered an admission.

Xiaoqing's eyes lit up immediately. She quickly changed the water in the pot, put the grass into the pot and started to boil it. "Okay, Mom will boil some water for you now."

"My Yaya will love her mother now."

"Yaya, my Yaya is a good child. She shouldn't be hurt."

"My Yaya is the best."

After cooking for a while, Xiaoqing seemed to have talked to herself enough and finally remembered Ping Chu and He Yufeng. She turned her head and looked at Ping Chu with a light in her eyes.

Xiaoqing held Pingchu's hand and said, "Good boy, you are a good boy."

"Anyone who can become friends with Yaya must be a good kid!"

She asked Ping Chu in a very low and nervous voice, "Do you want to learn how to write?"

"Writing?" Ping Chu opened his eyes wide, and He Yufeng behind him also realized something.

Ping Chu's mind raced, and he nodded vigorously, "I want to learn how to write. Auntie, can you teach me? I will definitely study hard!"

"Okay, okay! Auntie will teach you to write, and we'll teach together." Xiaoqing looked at Shen Yunzhe and said, "Yaya, do you agree?"

Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows subtly, thought for a while and nodded.

"Actually, the world outside is really big. My aunt used to live in that world," Xiaoqing said, reminiscing about her past. "Where I was, there was the sea, a vast, endless expanse of blue water, stacked buildings, beautiful clothes, and lights that burned all night long."

Xiaoqing said: "I haven't seen it for a long time, and I haven't been home for a long time."

She said, "I can teach you how to write and tell you how to leave this mountain and get to that place, but when you get there, you have to tell the people there that I'm here and ask them to come pick me and Yaya up."

"I miss home. I want to go home."

Ping Chu and He Yufeng breathed very softly, as if they were afraid of disturbing Xiaoqing's dream.

She was already very fragile and weak. She knew how to go down the mountain, but she no longer had the strength to support her to leave. If she left rashly, the probability of her death would be too high, especially since she was with Yaya. She didn't want to leave Yaya here alone, nor did she want Yaya to die on the road.

She even had a plan, which was to find someone who was different from this village, tell him how to leave, let him leave here, and then find someone to save her and Yaya.

She probably didn't succeed.

After all, she was still here, but her Yaya was dead, drowned in the spring by her biological father.

But after Yaya appeared in her imagination, her hope was rekindled.

She chose to find one or two young people again, send them away from here, and hope for that little bit of hope.

This is: Xiaoqing’s way of leaving the village.

"Auntie," He Yufeng said, "the water is overflowing."

"Ah! I cooked porridge for Yaya!" Xiaoqing quickly turned around to clean the pot.

After Xiaoqing left, the three of them looked at each other at the door.

"According to Xiaoqing, after we study Chinese characters with her for a while, we'll be able to find the route out of the village." Pingchu said, "So easy? Is that possible?"

The information they have obtained so far has reached Xiaoqing, because of Shen Yunzhe's operation, they actually got in touch with Xiaoqing in advance and knew about this road, and Xiaoqing was willing to tell them about this road, but to be honest, Ping Chu didn't quite believe it, and He Yufeng didn't believe it either.

A bunch of official personnel came in, but none of them came out alive. To be honest, they didn't think that these seniors couldn't even find out this little bit of information.

You have to know that this group of people is the most capable of finding out information among the official, and they are members of the department formed by Shen Wei.

"As I said before, believe before you doubt." Ping Chu patted He Yufeng's hair. "There are still many places in this village that we haven't explored yet. Maybe we can find something else. Shen Yunzhe, I leave this place to you. We'll come back later."

Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Okay."

So they left together.

Shen Yunzhe turned to look at Xiaoqing. The woman had already cooked porridge and added some green vegetables to it, which looked like cabbage and radish. When she saw Shen Yunzhe looking at her, she smiled with satisfaction.

"Yaya, come and eat."

Shen Yunzhe wanted to walk over, but before he could, a man walked in from the door.

It’s the big man Erniu.

Erniu and the village chief came back after trembling for a long time, because this was his house, his home. His anger and high self-esteem shattered his fear, so he came back.

Seeing that Xiaoqing had cooked the meal, he squatted down and drank the porridge Xiaoqing had prepared.

Xiaoqing stood up and said, "Put it down! I gave it to Yaya!"

"Bah! This is my rice and my food!" Erniu looked at Xiaoqing viciously, "Woman, don't talk about that little girl. You can only eat because of me!"

To be honest, Shen Yunzhe really hates this person.

He walked behind Erniu and looked at him expressionlessly.

"System." Shen Yunzhe said, "Can I get rid of this guy?"

"He died a long time ago anyway. Now he's just a shadow acting out the plot. He's not even a weird creature."

[Risk.] The system said: [He may have a subsequent plot. If he is dealt with while there is still a plot, there may be problems.]

"But I think he's completely unnecessary." Shen Yunzhe placed his hand on his shoulder, his hand and shoulder hanging about five centimeters in the air. "Codename Qianmian didn't stop me either."

[The mountain village is very dangerous and requires caution, but if Codename Thousand Faces doesn't stop you, you can give it a try.]

Shen Yunzhe smiled.

In fact, he was just asking the system out of habit. He would do it even if the system disagreed. After all, it was him who made him unhappy.

Xiaoqing looked at Shen Yunzhe behind Erniu. She was mentally ill and didn't know anything. She only knew that her Yaya was smiling, so she couldn't help but smile too.

"What the hell are you laughing at?!" Erniu cursed.

Xiaoqing said nothing, just stared at Shen Yunzhe and kept smiling.

Erniu couldn't help but look back, but there was nothing behind him. The strong feeling of unease made him stand up suddenly, take off his shoes and want to hit Xiaoqing, but just as he raised his shoes, he suddenly found that he couldn't move. He opened his eyes wide in horror and felt his hands and feet numb.

What? What happened?

He opened his mouth to scream, but found he couldn't even speak.

Shen Yunzhe and Xiaoqing looked at each other and smiled. Countless invisible silk threads extended from the ceiling and floor, tightly binding Erniu.

He leaned over to Erniu's ear and spoke.

"Yaya is a lovely girl, and Xiaoqing is a very good woman. They are so kind and lovely."

Erniu couldn't help shaking. He slowly raised his head and fixed his eyes on Xiaoqing who was still smiling in front of him.

"They are so kind and lovely, and I am hurting them."

Shen Yunzhe slowly retracted the silk thread, and the shoe in Erniu's hand fell to the ground. He looked at Xiaoqing in a daze.

"I'm a bad person. I'm so hateful. I deserve to die."

"How could I do such a horrible thing? I don't deserve to live in this world."

Erniu staggered out of the room, knelt on the cold ground outside and began to kowtow. He kowtowed over and over again, with nothing visible in his empty eyes. He kowtowed and said sorry, saying that he deserved to die. When the villagers found him and called the village chief, his head was already bleeding.

The village chief and villagers tried to pull it out in panic, but found that they couldn't pull it out at all.

Erniu knocked himself to death at the door.

The villagers looked at the dead Erniu in horror. Xiaoqing was still smiling when they turned around. She looked at Shen Yunzhe and laughed with Shen Yunzhe.

In the sight of the villagers, the figure of the little girl appeared vaguely.

She was wearing the little clothes she wore when she died, and her body was soaked with water. When she turned her head to look at them, her pupils were deathly white, and she was laughing too, laughing with her mother.