Chapter 208
Xie Jinan turned his head and saw in the darkness that the door handle was pushed down hard by someone from the outside. The door panel shook, and the person outside was unable to push the door open.
Xie Jinan's heart also trembled.
Due to extreme tension and extreme concentration, she seemed to be able to hear the man outside the door's malicious whispered curses.
She slowed her breathing and listened to the footsteps fading away.
But she was not able to breathe a sigh of relief, because soon, a dark shadow appeared at the window like an inescapable ghost.
Rural windows are made of rotten wooden frames and inferior glass.
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, this window has no latch.
I just folded a piece of paper and stuck it in to fix the two windows.
But now, when the dark shadow appeared at the window, he stretched out an arm under the moonlight and easily pushed open the shabby window.
The night wind outside suddenly blew in. Xie Jinan closed his eyes, listening to his rapid heartbeat, and clenched the knife in his hand again and again.
The tall dark figure climbed in through the window.
A sticky and disgusting gaze fell on Xie Jinan. She closed her eyes and tried her best to ignore the nausea and vomiting brought by that gaze.
She is ready.
I imagined over and over in my mind the scene of stabbing him with a knife as he pressed down on me.
But...will things really go as smoothly as she thought?
On the other hand, will things go so smoothly?
Behind the cowshed, Yunmian and He Fang watched three people place a ladder, which they had brought from somewhere, on the eaves. Then one person held the ladder while the other two climbed up to the top of the cowshed one by one.
He Fang pushed her silly sister and asked her to go to the cowshed to accompany Yun Jinxing.
Yunmian ran over and met the cow's sight as soon as she entered the door. The cow's huge eyes scared her as always. She plucked up the courage to touch the cow's head. The child quickly squeezed next to her mother and looked up with her mother.
There was a sound of a dog barking downstairs, and it seemed that someone pushed the door open to check, but Yunmian vaguely heard He Yonghong yelling at the dog, and He Guizhi angrily scolding the dog for being tactless.
I don’t know what happened to the protagonist’s sister.
The child pursed his lips, feeling a little relieved when he thought that the system uncle was helping to keep an eye on him. He held his mother's hand and looked up.
The dark tiles on the roof were carefully lifted.
Moonlight poured down from above, and Yunmian could feel her mother's breathing slowing down beside her.
Yunmian couldn't help but lean over and kiss her mother's forehead. She reached out and hugged her in the dim light, wanting to use such a hug to give her mother more companionship and courage.
The tiles were lifted up one by one, and the person lying on the roof stretched his arms down through the gaps to feel around. After feeling the iron chain on the beam, he tentatively pulled it.
The iron chain was very heavy, hanging all the way down from above until it locked Yun Jinxing's hands and feet.
But the way it was fixed was not very sophisticated, at least the two men could quickly untie it by slowly groping for it.
The reason why the He family had no scruples about tying Yun Jinxing here was because she had a broken leg and couldn't touch the iron chain on the top.
I don’t know if it was because of the owner’s yelling, but the barking big yellow dog soon became quiet. The other dogs in the village who were barking in response also gradually became silent. In the extreme silence, Yun Mian could only hear the heavy breathing of the big yellow cow in the cowshed and the sound of it flapping its ears to drive away mosquitoes and flies.
Su Xiaotong pushed the door open. The creaking door had been padded with soft corn husks by Yun Mian and He Fang yesterday. When it was pushed open, no one was disturbed. Instead, there was silence.
She closed the door, tiptoed in the dark, next to the cow, and reached out to catch the iron chain dropped from above.
She took the heavy iron chains one by one, and carefully tied them up and placed them at Yun Jinxing's feet.
Yunmian tried to pick up one, but it was extremely heavy.
Not until all four chains were lowered did the light in Yun Jinxing's eyes finally brighten.
She raised her hand and touched her daughter's head, and when Su Xiaotong placed the last chain next to her, she reached out and grabbed her wrist.
Su Xiaotong was startled by her sudden action, but fortunately she was sensible enough not to shout out. Instead, she looked at her with a puzzled look and asked as quietly as possible, "What's wrong?"
"Xie Jinan." Yun Jinxing whispered the name she had heard before, and said to the girl in front of her, "She might be in danger. You need to save her."
"...How do you know?" Su Xiaotong was stunned.
Yun Jinxing looked at her for several seconds, then asked instead of answering, "Are you an art student?"
This is the ID card Su Xiaotong got!
She was suddenly startled, subconsciously broke free from Yun Jinxing's hand, leaned back, and asked her cautiously: "How did you know?"
She asked the same question just now.
At this time, people outside also came in.
After He Jiapeng and Zhang Yu squeezed in, the entire cowshed became extremely narrow and crowded. Even the cow had to stick closer to the wall to make room for these two-legged beasts that broke in.
Then Yun Jinxing revealed Zhang Yu’s ID card information.
Zhang Yu also subconsciously asked the same question that Su Xiaotong had just asked.
Everyone was waiting for Yun Jinxing's answer.
Yun Jinxing did not keep the secret. As if he had thought of something, he said to them after a brief silence, "Six years ago, a group of people like you came to this village."
She looked at the three people in front of her, and finally her eyes fell on the puzzled He Jiapeng: "I am a teacher who came to the mountainous area to teach, and there is a pair of students from the Academy of Fine Arts who came here to sketch. Our destination is not here, but another village, but when we asked for directions, we were brought here."
"And you are the high school student who helped lead the way."
Under her cold and emotionless gaze, He Jiapeng took two steps back in panic. He didn't know if he stepped on cow dung, but his heel sank into it. He Jiapeng turned pale with disgust.
"I, I..." His mind went blank and he lost all ability to organize words.
Fortunately, the people around him knew that he was just holding such an ID card, not the real high school student. Zhang Yu patted his shoulder to signal him to calm down, and then said to Yun Jinxing: "We have no ill intentions. Let's get you out now. After you get out, remember what you promised us."
Bai Tian had promised that if she was rescued, she would expose the truth hidden by the village.
As long as they get the truth and are judged as passed by the system, they can immediately find a passage down the mountain. Taking advantage of the night, they may be able to successfully pass the level without alerting anyone.
At this moment, Su Xiaotong suddenly tugged at his sleeve and whispered to him what Yun Jinxing had just reminded him about, that Xie Jinan was in danger.
“…”Sure enough, the game is triggered by dangerous nodes!
Before, I was thinking of taking things one step at a time, but now fellow player Xie Jinan is suddenly in danger... Should I save him or not?
Before entering the game, they didn't know each other. Now that Xie Jinan is in danger, it is reasonable to rescue him, but what to say, I would rather die than let my fellow Taoist die. For Xie Jinan alone, the rest of the players will be in danger and have to fight against the entire village... No matter how you look at it, it's not worth it.
Zhang Yu frowned and showed some resistance.
Yun Jinxing raised his eyes and looked at the expressions on the faces of the three people calmly.
Will these three people choose to save him or not?
Will the result of the choice be exactly the same as it was six years ago?
In a suffocating silence, He Jiapeng spoke first: "This special NPC was discovered by that young lady. Now she is in danger. I think... we should quickly find a way to save her."
Anyway, if he were to finish the game with a clear conscience, leaving Xie Jinan, the biggest contributor to this incident, to suffer in the game... He Jiapeng felt that he couldn't do it.
The socialist core values and the eight honors and eight shames that he had recited over and over again since childhood would not allow him to stand by and watch someone die.
The most terrifying thing is that even if I get out, thinking about Xie Jinan being left in the game... won’t I feel guilty and have nightmares every night?
He Jiapeng pushed up his glasses and said to the two again in silence: "I'm going to save her. If she hadn't found this place, we might not even know how to complete the mission."
And since Yun Jinxing said that the configuration of the five-member group was the same as six years ago, and Yun Jinxing, who has the same identity information as Xie Jinan, did not die, there is no reason why Xie Jinan would really die tonight.
As long as we can save it, we shouldn't give up easily.
"..." Zhang Yu and Su Xiaotong were silent.
After a while, Su Xiaotong said hesitantly: "I, I also think we should go and save her. That girl is very smart. If we encounter other difficulties in the future, it will be easier with her around. And if we don't save her..."
Doesn’t that mean that Xie Jinan will also become like this NPC named Yun Jinxing?
Her legs were broken, she gave birth to a child, and she was chained to a cowshed like an animal...
Just thinking about this scene, and thinking about how someone as delicate and intelligent as Xie Jinan would one day become like this, Su Xiaotong found it hard to convince herself not to save her.
As for the dangers that she will face later...to be honest, Su Xiaotong feels that for her, it would be better to die directly than to watch the girl suffer such disgusting and inhuman torture.
"Besides... they are NPCs in the game, but we are not." Su Xiaotong whispered, "I can't just stand by and watch them die."
Of the three players, two expressed their opinions one after another, leaving Zhang Yu the only one who remained silent.
So in the moonlight pouring in from the broken roof above their heads, many pairs of eyes looked at Zhang Yu, the only one who didn't speak.
Like an invisible pressure.
Zhang Yu touched his nose and said helplessly: "Since you all said so, I can't run away alone without any backbone."
He looked at Yun Jinxing, and this time his tone was much more sincere, with a bit of embarrassment: "Can you tell me what happened to you back then? In this way... we may be able to find a way to rescue another companion as soon as possible."
You can't just rush out to save people without knowing anything, right?
When the three of them decided to go back and save people, Yun Jinxing's cold eyes finally flashed a smile, and she nodded gently: "Okay."
Even though everything she experienced back then was a nightmare that would never fade away for her, she was willing to tear apart that dirty memory with her own hands if speaking it out could help another girl better.
"Mom..." Only Yunmian hugged her tightly, feeling a little uneasy.
The little girl didn't understand anything, but she could feel her mother's body trembling slightly.
Mom was scared, and Yunmian could only hug her tighter.
The home team won today! We will update more tomorrow!!
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