Chapter 38: Misty Rain in Jiangnan (Part 9)
Feng Zhibei overestimated his ability to find his way and successfully got lost.
He didn't know much about ancient architecture, and in his eyes, all Jiangnan buildings looked the same.
This resulted in him now standing in front of a small building in a daze, with a group of middle-aged women pointing at him.
"Hey, isn't this Miss Ji Ling's child? Why is he here?"
"This doll is so beautiful, but it's a pity that it's stupid..."
"Miss Ji Ling must have been looking for the child for quite some time. It's not easy for her. She has helped us so much. Should we send the child back to her?"
When Feng Zhibei heard this, he ran away.
The women behind him were stunned for a moment, then they realized what was happening and started shouting loudly.
"Oh my god! Go call Miss Ji Ling! Her child has run away!"
There was chaos on the streets, and several children were being held by their mothers to look for someone. They looked dusty and quite reluctant.
Amidst the chaos, the NPC named Ji Ling came down from the small building, walked over to the women with small steps, and bowed slightly.
The women talked about Feng Zhibei's escape.
"That doll ran so fast! It disappeared in the blink of an eye!"
"It's almost time to invite the Queen. What if something goes wrong?"
Ji Ling smiled and nodded. "Everyone is right. That child has always been a runner since he was little. He disappears if you don't keep an eye on him. I've been looking for him several times."
"If you see him next time, please help catch him. Thank you very much."
Ji Ling bent down and bowed again, which frightened several women and they kept saying "I don't deserve it".
After exchanging greetings and saying goodbye, the streets returned to their usual peace and normality.
Ji Ling's smile gradually faded, and he walked into the small building with an expressionless face.
Her shadow was stretched out very long, and something was faintly shaking.
The sun sets over the western mountaintops and the temperature slowly drops.
It will soon be evening.
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Feng Zhibei ran for a long time and finally found the hiding place after many twists and turns.
He huddled in a small corner, hiding behind the wall among the branches and leaves.
The sound of footsteps passed by him and gradually faded away.
Feng Zhibei waited for a long time before cautiously sticking his head out and coming out only after confirming that there was no one outside.
He did not let his guard down and kept walking carefully, looking for a suitable place to spend the night.
I absolutely cannot go to the small building where Ji Ling is. The sense of danger she brings to me is something I have never experienced in my entire life.
If I stayed with her for one night, I would definitely die.
Feng Zhibei shuttled through the gaps in the small building.
Maybe I could stay at He Xinmei's house for a while, but it would be a bit dangerous to go there alone.
How about using attributes to confuse an NPC?
It should be possible. However, the duration of the attribute is unstable. If the NPC suddenly wakes up in the middle of the night, it will be troublesome to send him to Ji Ling's house.
Feng Zhibei was thinking about his next move. As he was walking, he suddenly felt a gust of wind coming from the back of his neck.
He was suddenly startled and just as he was about to attack, he felt something falling on his shoulder.
The soft feathers rubbed against his ears, making him feel a little itchy.
It's a crow.
Feng Zhibei suddenly became expressionless and grabbed the crow roughly.
This crow was extremely large and it was obviously not a normal crow. After being caught, it did not struggle at all, but just stared at him with its red eyes.
"...Yan Chuxue, you're quite happy being a bird."
Feng Zhibei poked the crow's belly with his hand.
It's soft and feels good.
The crow in his hand suddenly struggled, and Feng Zhibei didn't insist and let go.
The crow tilted its head to look at him, pecked his hand with its beak, then spread its wings and flew low in front of him.
Although the other party did not speak, Feng Zhibei understood the other party's thoughts very miraculously.
——Follow him, I have something to say.
He followed the crow and walked forward, avoiding several people who were hurried home.
The sun was half blocked by the mountain, and the whole sky was covered by sunset glow. The red color of the sunset should have made people feel comfortable and peaceful, but the red here had an indescribable weirdness.
Feng Zhibei shuddered, wrapped his clothes tightly around himself, and focused more intently.
Yan Chuxue took him into an alley, and after a burst of white mist, he appeared.
He also looks like a child, and is a bit shorter than Feng Zhibei.
Yan Chuxue had a stern face and a serious expression, which made Feng Zhibei unable to help but burst out laughing.
"...What are you laughing at? Aren't you the same now?"
He looked somewhat helpless and continued, "There's an old lady in this room. I've tested her and she's not very aggressive. You can use your attributes to confuse her. Even if she wakes up midway, it'll be easy to deal with her."
The tender child's voice and the extremely contrasting expression appeared on such a Hela person. Feng Zhibei's mouth twitched twice and he almost couldn't hold back his laughter.
Fortunately he held back.
While humans haven't learned anything else, they have learned a lot about pretending.
Feng Zhibei also made a serious expression, nodded, and looked towards the room that was already lit with red light.
A hunched shadow was faintly visible through the window, walking slowly in the room.
It should be that old lady.
Feng Zhibei: "Are you sure she's easy to deal with? Don't tell me she's that kind of...firepower granny."
Yan Chuxue looked at the half-dark sky. "Whether she's easy to deal with is secondary. The main thing is that her eyesight isn't very good. And she's the only one living alone in this city. The others all have children at home, which makes it even more difficult."
There was no time to think any further, as it was about to get dark and the ominous feeling was becoming more and more obvious.
Feng Zhibei quickly observed the surrounding environment and decided to enter through the door of the house facing the river.
Two small figures stuck to the wall, carefully walked around the wall and headed towards the river.
"Gulp, gulp, gulp."
There was a faint sound of water not far away, as if a fish jumped out of the water and then fell back into the water.
Feng Zhibei stretched out his hand and made a stop gesture.
"There's movement on the other side of the river."
The two slowed down their pace and approached the river little by little.
In the dim environment, the river water kept flowing forward, and in the turbulent water, several round objects were jumping.
Feng Zhibei squinted his eyes and almost vomited.
In the water, several swollen and rotten children's heads were jumping around, splashing a lot of water.
They grinned, revealing pale gums and an overly long tongue, and made small giggling sounds.
Yan Chuxue also saw the scene in the river. He whispered in Feng Zhibei's ear: "Speed up, let's go inside first."
They walked carefully using the shadows cast by the wall. Just as they were about to reach the door, Feng Zhibei suddenly felt a palpitation.
He quickly took out a fruit knife and blocked it.
With a snap, a child's head was pierced by a fruit knife.
It opened its mouth wide, and its dry and resentful eyes stared at Feng Zhibei, but because its tongue was also pierced, it could not make any sound.
The water flowed all over the floor, and some of it even flowed down the fruit knife into Feng Zhibei's hand.
At this moment, the sky was completely covered in darkness and the system prompt sounded.
[Ding! It has been detected that it is night time in this instance. Please find shelter on your own.
When night falls, the dungeon will undergo uncontrollable changes. Please be prepared to face the darkness.
Feng Zhibei's expression changed.
The part that was touched by the water suddenly felt a biting cold, and the water left a blue-black mark on the hand.
He endured the pain and was about to throw his head into the river when a white, tender and soft hand appeared.
Yan Chuxue reached out and took the fruit knife.
The head's eyes turned to Yan Chuxue, the corners of its mouth widened, and a foul smell hit his face.
Water also dripped onto Yan Chuxue's hand, leaving disturbing dark blue marks, but he remained calm and spoke softly to Feng Zhibei.
"At that time, I heard by the river that the local residents gave their children to that lady."
When the word "Empress" was heard, the eyeballs of the head almost popped out, and the already rotten and loose skin fell down due to the intense expression and movement, revealing the whitened flesh inside.
Feng Zhibei found the remaining bottle of effect-removing potion in his backpack, unscrewed it and dripped it on Yan Chuxue's hand.
The effect was immediate, the blue-black marks faded, and the potion covered the skin to form a protective film to prevent it from being eroded by river water again.
Yan Chuxue was silent for a while before speaking: "You should keep it for yourself. I'm not that fragile."
The skin covered with the potion felt a little itchy, and an indescribable emotion filled his heart.
Feng Zhibei screwed the lid back on and put it back into the backpack. "You're holding it now. Obviously you need it more."
He continued the previous topic: "I also heard a little bit before. Their queen only wants girls, not boys. I doubt it..."
He looked at the child's head, whose gender could not be determined. "I suspect they were thrown away at the end. There were no girls left in the city, so they used that kind of medicine to artificially create girls to invite the empress."
"But there's another problem," Yan Chuxue continued, "Before, only men appeared in the city, but now only women appear in the city."
"The rest can only be known on the day when we invite the Empress."
Taking advantage of this time, Feng Zhibei checked the progress of the hidden plot and was surprised to find that it was only 30%.
Including the initial number of times, the attribute can now be used four times.
He cast his eyes on the head skewered on the fruit knife, and a plan came to his mind.
"Look carefully, this child is called Xiaotou..."
After hearing this, Yan Chuxue was stunned for a moment, and quickly understood his intention.
But after hearing the complete sentence, I couldn't help but shudder.
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Grandma Li is now sixty years old and has lived in Qingshui City for more than forty years.
When she was a teenager, she followed her husband south and came here to do business.
This place has good feng shui and is comfortable to live in, so the two of them stayed here for many years.
Her hands were shaking as she tidied the house.
But since when did my husband disappear?
I can't remember clearly. She is too old and can't understand many things.
Just like a few years ago, a little girl named Ji Ling suddenly came to the city with a stupid child, promoting the "Niangniang" that she couldn't understand.
Grandma Li felt sorry for her. It was not easy for her to raise a stupid son at such a young age.
She sorted out the lotus pods she had picked in the past few days and prepared to give them to Ji Ling during the day tomorrow.
She didn't know what a Niangniang was, but everyone said that after having a Niangniang, she could catch more fish and earn more money.
That lady should be fine.
Suddenly, Grandma Li heard a noise coming from behind her door.
"Oh, whose kid is being disobedient again? He doesn't go home even after dark..."
She muttered to herself and walked slowly towards the door.
“Who is it…?”
Grandma Li opened the door and narrowed her eyes.
They seemed to be two children, one of whom was holding something in his arms.
"Whose family are you from?"
She couldn't see the two children's appearance clearly, so she asked.
One of the taller children bowed to her, and the child holding something spoke.
"Grandma, we're lost. It's too dark at night and we can't find the way home, and..."
He paused, a strange hint of fear in his voice: "I even ran into a ghost."
Feng Zhibei almost laughed out loud when he saw Yan Chuxue trying hard to pretend to be scared.
The other person was holding the head of the child who had just been stabbed in his arms. The scene was very horrifying, but the child's head was now very obedient, with his eyes darting around, and he was a little curious about everything around him.
Feng Zhibei just made up a story about a family of three brothers.
In the story, Yan Chuxue is the eldest brother, I am the second brother, and the child with only a head left is the youngest brother. The three of them got lost outside and came to find a house to stay.
Feng Zhibei was shocked when he heard the system prompt that it was successful.
I didn't expect that something like this would succeed in one go.
The two men took turns to attack, first instilling ideas into the head: be obedient, be good, and don't make noise or make trouble when entering other people's houses, otherwise they would throw him into the water to feed the fish.
Well versed in intimidation methods for educating children.
The child must have been very young before his death. After the resentment in his eyes faded, he looked very ignorant and naturally believed what people older than him said.
Very good, the younger brother is very obedient, and the two older brothers are very satisfied.
So they made some noise at the old lady's door, listened to the slow footsteps coming from inside the house, and made full preparations.
If the old lady didn't cooperate, they were ready to send the head to deal with her.
After all, fighting between NPCs is not within the management scope of the wilderness.
Fortunately, the old lady’s eyesight was not very good.
When Grandma Li heard the words "encountered a ghost", deep fear appeared on her wrinkled face.
She dragged them both into the house and slammed the door.
They didn't see that outside the house, red ghost lights were lighting up at the doors of every house and wandering on the streets.
The entire Qingshui City was illuminated by red light, as if it was dawn.
In the alley, faint sobbing sounds were heard, mournful and long.
The author has something to say:
Thank you everyone (bow)
In order to motivate myself, I will add one chapter for every 150 nutrient solutions. I will pay off my debt first, so I will add it tomorrow. However, it may not be easy to add more chapters on weekdays, so I will add it on Friday, the weekend.
There may be typos, I will correct them later
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