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Not long after, Guan Yingying brought Mei Che to the tavern.

"Here!" Ding Bowen and Guan Yingying had met several times in other activities and were quite familiar with each other. He waved to Guan Yingying from a distance and said happily, "Here!"

Guan Yingying's eyes swept over Su Mu beside Ding Bowen without leaving any trace, and her smile deepened a little. She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, revealing her beautiful and friendly face.

Guan Yingying is very confident about her looks. She was chosen to enter the entertainment industry because of this face. Relying on the girl-next-door feeling that comes with this face, she has gained super high popularity despite her mediocre acting skills, and has since become a well-known traffic star.

"Xiao Ding, why do you look so embarrassed?" Guan Yingying pretended that her target was not Su Mu, and she smiled and chatted with Ding Bowen like an old friend: "Were you chased by a hunter just now?"

Are we that familiar?

Ding Bowen glanced at Guan Yingying in surprise. Considering that this was a TV show, it was common practice for the guests to act intimate with each other. Ding Bowen didn't think much about it and made a bitter expression: "That's right! I was chased by twenty servants just now. I was really scared!"

"Twenty?!" Guan Yingying widened her eyes.

"Alas, fortunately Su Mu is here." Ding Bowen sighed: "I am obviously his older brother but I have always been holding him back. If it weren't for Su Mu, I would never have been able to hold on until now."

With Ding Bowen's proactive preparations, Guan Yingying naturally turned her gaze to Su Mu behind her.

"Hello, I'm Guan Yingying."

"I'm Su Mu." Su Mu nodded at her: "We just talked on the phone."

"I know, but we still need to formally introduce ourselves when we meet for the first time." Guan Yingying smiled and did not continue this meaningless polite conversation. She took out a piece of yellow talisman paper from her pocket, on which were written complicated words in cinnabar. Under the faint flow of magic power, a faint trace of blood could be felt.

This didn't seem to be pure cinnabar, but probably mixed with the blood of some animal, which was full of evil spirit. Even if it was brought out of the barrier to deal with other mutants, it could still play a good role.

It seems that the current concentration of magic power on Earth is already enough to create an existence comparable to the Foundation's containment?

Although the strength is still under discussion, as the concentration of magic power increases, it is only a matter of time before he possesses powerful strength in the future.

However, with the power of today's props, it is more like the power of the "props" in the "Infinite Flow" novels recommended to him by Bai Luo rather than being like a containment object. They can be used, but not much, and may also backfire on oneself.

At the current rate, it seems that it is only a matter of time before some kind of "Main God Space" will mutate in the future.

...

Guan Yingying took out a piece of talisman paper and handed it to Su Mu: "Just stick it on the four small ancestral halls located in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and then stick the last one on the tablet of Master Zhu Er, and you can stop the wedding from going ahead."

While the two were talking, several more players ran into the tavern.

Just when Guan Yingying arrived, Su Mu and Ding Bowen were also busy. They each contacted a group of players and invited them to the tavern.

After all, the mission time is not sufficient. It is almost impossible for the three of them to complete the mission alone. They still need the participation of other players.

As for whether there are "traitors" among these players who will interfere with the progress of the mission, Su Mu is not worried.

"There are exactly twelve of us, including the two NPCs." Su Mu pointed at Zhu Bieshu and Mei Che, "We can just divide into four groups, three people in each group, so that we can move around more easily and be on guard against each other. If we encounter a hunter, we can still protect the talisman paper at the cost of our own lives. After all..."

Su Mu glanced at everyone and smiled slightly: "It seems that there is a traitor among us. Therefore, I, Brother Ding and Sister Yingying will each be responsible for a group - we have completed two pre-tasks and found the key NPC. It can't be a traitor, otherwise we would have torn up the talisman paper long ago."

After everyone nodded in agreement with Su Mu's statement, Su Mu continued, "Leave the ancestral hall to the east to me. I will take Young Master Zhu and Young Master Mei with me. It is the most dangerous place, and it would be bad if too many people challenge it. If I fail, you can take over from me immediately."

Ding Bowen said quickly: "Just trust Su Mu. He just helped me escape from the pursuit of 20 servants!"

Being able to escape from the pursuit of twenty servants, or to escape with others, is definitely not an easy task. The players did not want to choose the most difficult eastern ancestral hall, and since Su Mu took the initiative, they were naturally happy to hand the task over to him.

Su Mu added: "There are nine of you left. Let's form a team randomly. It will be safer and prevent the traitor from being alone and secretly forming a group."

There was no better way now, and Su Mu's proposal was quickly passed unanimously.

After doing all this, everyone separated again, and Su Mu took Zhu Bieshu and Mei Che straight to the Eastern Ancestral Hall.

...

The mournful crying sounded like resentment, longing, sobbing and complaining. It had been circling in her ears since Lin Lang got into the sedan chair.

Intense despair and unwillingness emerged from the bottom of his heart. If the person who was bearing everything at this moment was not Lin Lang, but the heroine who Lin Lang met in the courtyard and was responsible for playing "Mei Fang", I am afraid that no matter how strong the heroine's will is, she will collapse in such despair and fall into madness. It is precisely to prevent the mutant from finding other victims, so that he can take a break from his busy schedule and does not have to run around for the recording of the program, and let the camera find itself, that Lin Lang will take the initiative to "contribute" his body to allow the mutant to stay for a short period of time.

Of course, the so-called "boarding" was nothing more than a short break at the entrance. Under Lin Lang's ironclad mental defense, the mutant mistakenly believed that this small entrance was all of Lin Lang's mental power, but he didn't know that what Lin Lang really owned was an entire palace.

Lin Lang lifted a corner of the sedan chair curtain and looked out.

At this moment, in her eyes, it is no longer the spacious and bright film and television base that vividly interprets the style and romance of the Republic of China. What she sees is a sea of ​​red, blood-red sky, blood-red streets, blood-red sedan bearers... The scattered paper money mixed with flying ashes falls like goose feather snow, and the NPCs in white mourning clothes float on both sides of the road like wandering souls. Once the paper money falls to the ground, they rush up to grab it all with stiff smiles.

Behind them, the majestic and magnificent building was charred to ashes without anyone noticing, leaving only a barely remnant after the fire.

Even the road under my feet is no longer a carefully paved, hard and smooth cement road, but a muddy yellow mud road. When my shoes step into the mud, they will quickly splash a few mud spots.

And as Lin Lang used the "Eye of Truth", the sedan bearers finally revealed their true forms - they were not NPCs with stiff expressions played by humans, but "scarecrows" woven from dead branches, loess and straw.

No matter the sedan bearers, the "citizens" on the roadside, or the ground beneath their feet, the ruins on the roadside... there is a long "red line" behind them, connected to the mutant on the top of the sedan, like a blood vessel extending from its body, giving the entire barrier and the entire city flesh and blood.

Lin Lang could feel that the land beneath him contained a huge amount of magic power and strong resentment. Because of this, the mutant was able to wrap the entire filming base in the barrier and control every word and action of everyone inside.

As they got closer to their destination, the power of the mutant on top of the sedan grew stronger as their resentment deepened.

If we do not interfere and allow the mutants to control these NPCs to complete the ghost marriage ritual, I am afraid that the powerful resentment and power as well as the completion of the story will allow the mutants to complete a second evolution and obtain a real body, no longer relying on barriers or mental parasitism to act.

It was like a weed that had just emerged from the film and television base, and was not easy to detect, but had already taken root in the soil. So Lin Lang used magic to fertilize it, allowing it to grow wildly in a short period of time, but because of the sudden increase in power, it could not control itself. Instead, in order to complete the second evolution, it absorbed power and emotions again and again, so that it gradually became "top-heavy", which reduced its control over the land and the film and television base.

But why is the mutant so persistent in completing the second Hades Marriage? Is it because he is trapped in it with too much resentment, so he repeats this desperate experience again and again, relying on anger to increase his strength?

Lin Lang was guessing in his heart when a hoarse voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

"Put down the curtains," the middle-aged man said, "How can the bride be exposed to the public?"

The person who spoke was Butler Wu, who was in charge of presiding over the wedding.

Just now, a player tipped off Wu, and Wu had to temporarily return to the Zhu family's old house to capture the escaped Zhu family's young master. Unfortunately, his efforts were in vain, and he could only return to the sedan chair with a sullen face.

——Unlike the amiable and slightly plump butler in the eyes of ordinary people, under the blessing of Lin Lang's "Eye of Truth", the butler in front of him was left with only a thin layer of skin covering the dry bones, as if all the flesh and blood had been sucked out.

"Don't even think about running away. You are the Second Master's person in life and his ghost in death." Butler Wu said dimly, with a hint of resentment and sarcasm in his eyes, as if he looked down on "Mei Fang".

This old man is so annoying.

Lin Lang thought to himself, hiding his right hand under the wide cuffs, and made a hand gesture.

Butler Wu, who originally had a vicious look in his eyes, shook his body, and his eyes gradually became empty. He opened and closed his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but his brain, which had been forcibly emptied by Lin Lang, had made him unable to organize any words. He could only "Aba Aba" for a long time, and continued to maintain a dull expression, following the sedan forward as if sleepwalking.

Due to the interference of Lin Lang's magic, the mutant in the sedan chair did not notice that there was anything wrong with Butler Wu.

Her eyes were fixed on the ancestral hall in front of her. The song she had been singing all the way finally came to an abrupt end at this moment. The anger and resentment in her eyes were so sticky that they seemed to turn into substance.

"The bride has arrived—"

The gate boy who had been waiting outside the ancestral hall saw the sedan chair from afar and shouted loudly.

Butler Wu, who needed to shout along, opened his mouth: "Ah Baba——"

His tongue, like his brain, was out of control and he couldn't utter a clear word for a long time.

Doorman: “???”

The doorman made of paper was also controlled by the mutant and had only simple thinking ability. So although he felt a little strange, his empty brain did not allow him to think deeply.

The sedan stopped in the open space in front of the eastern ancestral hall. The sedan leaned forward. Steward Wu opened the door for Lin Lang with a stern face. He stretched out his right hand, signaling Lin Lang to hold up the sedan: "Ah ah——"

The originally serious scene suddenly became funny with the inarticulate voice of Wu Guanjia. Lin Lang suppressed the upward curve of his mouth, and quickly immersed himself in the play while feeling the crazy emotions surging in his body. His eyes were soon covered with a layer of light mist again.

She "hesitated" for a moment, unwilling to get out of the sedan chair.

"Second Madam, it's time for you to get out of the sedan." Butler Wu, who didn't realize that his voice had become "Aba Aba", urged again in a self-consciously serious tone.

This time, Lin Lang "reluctantly" walked out of the sedan chair, and under the commanding look of Butler Wu, he reluctantly placed his hand on the back of Butler Wu's hand.

Butler Wu hunched over, and finally a smile appeared on his face.

The bridesmaid, who had been waiting on the side and had two exaggerated blushes on her face, immediately placed the veil that had been prepared in advance on Lin Lang's head, supported Lin Lang's arm with the other side, and led her into the ancestral hall.

Because her eyes were covered by the veil, Lin Lang could only see the small open space where her feet were, and could not see how she walked through the mechanism and entered the ritual area hidden under the ancestral hall on the east side.

After walking down a dozen meters of stone stairs, the surroundings quickly dimmed. Candles made of unknown animal fat made a "crackling" sound when burning, with an indescribable stench and fragrance. Even Lin Lang, who had a strong tolerance for smells, couldn't help but frown at this moment.

What’s that smell? It’s so stinky!

"The bride has arrived - light the candles -"

Just as Lin Lang's feet touched the ground, a servant immediately reported loudly.

The head of the Zhu family stood in front of the spirit tablet of Master Zhu Er, with a satisfied smile on his face. Unlike those stiff NPCs, the head of the Zhu family in front of him, like Zhu Bieshu and Mei Che, clearly possessed independent consciousness and thinking ability.

This is obviously impossible to do with the mutants' own strength. In fact, these people are not "puppets", but "living people" who are created by using the resentment from "Zhubieshu" and others left in the film and television base, using actors as temporary hosts and can only walk freely in the barrier.

——The earth cannot allow souls to remain. What can remain is only resentment attached to emotions.

But these resentments were very weak, so in the end only the resentment of "Mei Fang" completed the mutation and possessed some independent thinking.

...

According to the procedure, Master Zhu took the incense stick handed over by the servant, lit it on the candle flame, and bowed to the tablet of Master Zhu Er, saying with deep emotion: "Second brother, you left early, and I didn't have time to do anything for you. I thought you were not married yet, so I specially prepared this marriage for you. From now on, you live a good life with her, and I will be at ease."

Lin Lang: "Su Mu, how long do you have left?"

Su Mu: "What's wrong?"

Lin Lang: "I'm afraid that if I'm not careful, I'll kill all these old men."

Su Mu: "Hold on! I'll come and rescue them right away!"