The atmosphere suddenly became tense. The hot steam from the porridge lingered in the air. Lan Xu kept staring at him, and the air was silent for a few seconds.
Lan Xu suddenly smiled again, revealing his neat white teeth: "I was just kidding you."
He reached out and fiddled with the red bouquet on the table, and the silver bell on his wrist made a pleasant "ding-dong" sound.
Chu Chenan came back to his senses and gave a small dry laugh. He looked at Lan Xu's charming smile and felt a little dazed while being nervous.
That perfect face, as if carved by a knife, reminded him of the poisonous red flower that Lan Huai had planted in the backyard, and the familiar yet unfamiliar fragrance in the air...
Chu Chenan was stunned, his mind buzzing, all kinds of mixed fragments of images quickly flashed through his mind, he opened his bright eyes, and his pupils trembled slightly.
"What's wrong, Chen An?" Lan Xu asked with concern, "I see you're not in a good mood."
Chu Chenan's red lips opened slightly, and he was stunned for only a few seconds before coming back to his senses. The unknown trance and powerlessness pulled him, making him at a loss.
He was dizzy for a moment just now, maybe the drug he was given hasn't fully worn off yet.
He shook his head slightly, "It's okay."
...
...
Chu Chenan lowered his head and concentrated on drinking the porridge, thinking about many things in his mind.
He had clearly never seen Lan Xu before.
After the meal, Lan Xu brought a bowl of clear medicine soup, "Chen An, this is a soup soup for clearing away heat and detoxifying. I see that you don't seem to be fully recovered yet, drink the medicine for another two days."
"Okay." Chu Chenan nodded.
The decoction has the aroma of some kind of cool herbal medicine and is not very unpalatable.
He didn't think much about it, he just took the bowl and drank the medicine obediently.
…
Under the pretext of sketching, he secretly came to the alley where he met the woman in red skirt yesterday. The morning in the village was very humid, and the few clouds on the edge of the mountain were still light gray.
The air here is fresh and pleasant, sometimes accompanied by the chirping of birds. If you ignore this gloomy alley, this place might be a rare paradise on earth.
He carried the drawing board and carefully passed by the doors of several houses. The strange thing was that it was already past seven in the morning, and every door here was open, but he could not hear any sound of people.
The surroundings were eerily quiet.
Where have all the people gone?
Chu Chenan walked around the area several times. The woman in the red dress sneaked out from here, so her home might be nearby.
He searched one house after another, and finally stopped in front of a remote and quiet single-family bamboo house.
Because when Chu Chenan looked up, a figure in a red dress appeared in front of the second-floor balcony of the bamboo building.
The woman in the red dress held her hands on the bamboo railing, her eyes complicated, with fear mixed with excitement and desire.
She approached the balcony first, half of her body was leaning out, she looked around and said to Chu Chenan vigilantly, "You, is what you said yesterday true? Will you help me escape?"
"Hmm?" Chu Chenan recalled and nodded, "It's true."
Many people in Lao Liang's group were injured on the way to explore the secret place a few days ago. He Xuesheng said that they planned to return home after a day or two to receive treatment and recover from their injuries.
At that time, he can take the opportunity to take the woman in the red dress away from here and let her regain her freedom.
As for himself...it is still unknown whether he can catch up with the team and go back.
"Then why are you helping me?" the woman in the red dress asked nervously.
Chu Chenan couldn't say it was because of the mission. He thought about it, looked up and said, "No reason, I just want to help you."
This woman must have been trafficked or deceived into coming here, and she looks very young.
In addition to the needs of the mission, Chu Chenan was also happy to help.
The woman in the red dress stood there, her face tangled and terrified. After hesitating for a few seconds, she shouted with trembling lips, "He was injured today and fainted. You can come in directly from the back door."
Chu Chenan glanced at the iron chain on the ankle of the woman in the red dress and nodded.
He followed the instructions of the woman in the red dress and pushed open the back door of her house. Before entering, he carefully glanced back and then closed the door quietly.
Maybe he was too nervous these days, he always felt like someone was following him for no reason.
Chu Chenan walked in. The building was quite spacious, with four or five rooms on each floor. When he walked towards the stairs, he was startled by Wu Yao lying on his back at the bottom of the stairs.
Wu Yao lay there motionless, his face and nose were bruised and swollen, one of his eyes was smashed and couldn't open, a lot of blood had coagulated on his cheek, he was breathing heavily, and looked very painful.
How did he get hurt like this...
Chu Chenan couldn't help but recall the smell of blood on Lan Xu's body last night. Could it be that Lan Xu did it?
When Chu Chenan approached, Wu Yao narrowed his other eye slightly and raised his hand weakly and angrily, but he didn't even have the strength to support himself. He whimpered silently and soon dropped his hand weakly and half-fainted again.
Only after Chu Chenan saw that he had fainted did he dare to come around and quickly ran up to the second floor.
Several rooms on the second floor were closed and exuded a foul stench of decay. Chu Chenan pushed open a door on the left and stood there in shock.
Inside... there were several dried corpses hanging, with huge gashes on their abdomens. Inside the transparent glass lid of the horizontal refrigerator were three or four bright red organs, surrounded by ice cubes.
Chu Chenan hurriedly retreated.
The woman in the red dress was in the innermost room. There were many whips and awl blades of various colors hanging on the walls of the room.
Chu Chen stopped and felt a chill in his heart.
Interest?
The woman in the red dress looked haggard. She opened her eyes wide and stared at Chu Chenan. The hope and longing in her eyes continued to grow.
The room was quiet for a few minutes. Chu Chenan mustered up the courage to take a few steps closer and said timidly, "My name is Chu Chenan, what's yours? How did you get locked up?"
The woman in the red dress stared at the handsome young man in front of her. He had a slender figure, a fair face and extremely handsome eyes. She couldn't help but be stunned for a few seconds.
She said: "My name is Zhang Fengting. I came here to travel before. I was unlucky because Wu Yao took a fancy to me. I was put under a Gu and locked up. He insisted that I become his wife and bear his children. I have been locked up for four or five years."
She spoke succinctly and pulled at the iron collar around her neck. The collar was pressed against her neck and looked heavy and abrasive. The skin around it had already been left with purple bruises.
Zhang Fengting's voice is neutral and slightly hoarse, perhaps because his throat is uncomfortable.
Chu Chenan glanced at the heavy lock on her neck and felt suffocated.
Although Lan Huai had imprisoned him before, it was never more than half a month, and he would only put a silver chain padded with cotton around his ankle. As long as he acted coquettishly and pretended to be pitiful, Lan Huai would feel so distressed that he would let him go and hug him to comfort him.
The NPCs behind the scenes had never hurt him, not even the violent and perverted lunatic Qin Jue.
Qin Jue is the NPC behind the next copy. He is also the pervert who sawed the protagonist player in half in a fit of rage. He shudders whenever he thinks of him.
Chu Chenan found an awl on the wall and said, "I'll try to pry open the lock on you."
Zhang Fengting's eyes were filled with gloom, "He has put a curse on me. I will die as soon as I leave the village."
Chu Chenan clenched the awl in his hand. This small task might not be easy. "Is there an antidote?"
Zhang Fengting shook his head, "I don't know."
Chu Chenan glanced at Zhang Fengting and found that she was about the same height as him. Looking closer, he discovered that Zhang Fengting's shoulder frame was wider than a woman's, and her jawline was wide and distinct.
Suddenly, Zhang Fengting said, "I used to be a man."
Chu Chenan was a little shocked. She said that “before” it was a man.
Now...
Zhang Fengting met his shocked gaze and said casually, "Yes, it's what you think. I am what you call a shemale. In order to look like a woman, I took medicine for six years. Wu Yao also thought I was a man before. He put a Gu on me so that I could have a child. Later, he found out that I was a man and was very angry. He whipped me with a whip every day, stabbed me with an awl, and force-fed me with medicine."
Chu Chenan had thought that Zhang Fengting was not hurt, but it turned out that the injuries were not visible.
"When he was at his craziest, he used a razor blade to cut open my stomach to see if I had a uterus." Zhang Fengting lowered his eyes and said with disdain, "Later, he didn't give up, so he killed several women who came here to travel, dug out their uteruses, and planned to stuff the most suitable one into my stomach. Later, when I couldn't get pregnant, he cut open my stomach again, scraped out the rotten meat, and stuffed a new one in... Over the years, he stuffed more than a dozen of them into me."
Chu Chenan was frightened when he heard this. He clenched his fingers and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't he let you go after he found out that you couldn't have children?"
"Because he likes me." Zhang Fengting laughed at himself, "He kept stuffing his uterus into my belly while saying he loved me."
Chu Chenan didn't know how to comfort him, so he just stammered, "I'll help you."
【bite! 】
[Completion rate of temporary small tasks: 50%]
Suddenly, there were several noises outside the door.
Chu Chenan frowned. He stood up and turned around. He saw that Wu Yao had woken up without knowing when. He leaned on the escalator and shouted at Chu Chenan hoarsely, "Get out...get out of my house!"
Wu Yao's eyes looked like he wanted to kill someone, he had completely lost his mind, he walked into the room with a sharp steel knife in his hand.
Chu Chenan picked up a long spike from the wall and took a few steps back.
Wu Yao no longer cared and attacked Chu Chenan fiercely. The iron spike was not as sharp as the steel knife. Chu Chenan didn't find a chance to attack and staggered back two steps.
Just as the steel knife was about to chop him again, a big hand held his waist, and the steel knife in Wu Yao's hand chopped towards his own stomach.
With a "puff" sound, Wu Yao spat out a few mouthfuls of blood and fainted directly, and a pool of blood soon spilled out.
Chu Chenan looked up and saw that it was Lan Huai.
The moment he saw Lan Huai's face, he suddenly forgot his fear and stared at him blankly.
He didn't know where Lan Huai went when he didn't show up. Chu Chenan felt that Lan Huai came from somewhere. If he was there, Wu Yao might not even have the chance to raise his knife. He couldn't tell whether this feeling was just an instinctive reliance or intuition.
Or maybe, he had long been accustomed to being protected by Lan Huai and the others.
Lan Huai hugged him tightly, leaned over and kissed his lips, "Don't be afraid."
Chu Chenan lowered his eyes and his heart beat faster.
Lan Huai kissed him several more times, even on his eyelids.
This feeling was so familiar, they were like the same person, saying the same words and loving him with the same obsession.
Zhang Fengting couldn't see Lan Huai, but when he saw Wu Yao, who was almost dying from being hacked, he almost couldn't help but smile in relief.
Chu Chenan bent down and raised the steel knife, and was about to cut off the lock on Zhang Fengting, but it was taken away by Lan Huai.
"It's dangerous." Lan Huai hugged his waist and threw the knife back to the ground.
Then, the heavy chains on Zhang Fengting broke automatically.
Zhang Fengting tried to take a few steps, and looking at Wu Yao's half-dead appearance, he walked forward angrily, raised the knife, and stabbed Wu Yao in the stomach like crazy.
Blood splattered on his face and the hem of his red skirt, staining the skirt even brighter.
"Is it fun to dig your stomach? Is it fun? Is it fun? Crazy! Crazy!!!"
Zhang Fengting screamed, his eyes turned bloodshot and a few tears flowed out.
Wu Yao spat out a few mouthfuls of blood and seemed to be dead.
Chu Chenan was held in Lan Huai's arms, with one of Lan Huai's hands firmly supporting the back of his head to prevent him from looking.
Zhang Fengting didn't pay attention to Chu Chenan. He slowly calmed down, loosened the handle of the steel knife, and sat on the ground sobbing.
"Thank you..." Zhang Fengting regained his sanity. He said with tears in his eyes, "Don't you know a witch doctor? Can you...can you help me find a way to cure the poison?"
His tone was pleading and the tears in his eyes revealed the pain and humiliation he had accumulated over the years.
Chu Chenan didn't look at the witch doctor who was hugging him and kissing him, and nodded to Zhang Fengting, "Well, don't worry, I'll ask right away."
"Thank you, thank you so much..." Zhang Fengting almost knelt down and kowtowed to him, his eyes full of gratitude and desire to leave.
Zhang Fengting was poisoned by Wu Yao yesterday and couldn't leave here, so he had to say goodbye to Zhang Fengting and hurry to find a way to detoxify him.
The system prompted him: [The task deadline is left: 12 hours. 】
Chu Chenan walked to the corridor, pulled Lan Huai's sleeve and asked, "Do you... do you know how to cure the poison?"
"Yes." Lan Huai picked him up by the waist and walked down with him in his arms. "We need to tie the hair of the person who casts the Gu and the person who receives the Gu together and burn them in the furnace in the Wushen Temple. Then, burn three incense sticks to the Wushen statue."
"Is this all right?" Chu Chenan asked.
Lan Huai looked at him, "Well, do you want to help him, baby?"
Chu Chenan nodded and found an excuse, "I felt sorry for him and wanted to help him."
Lan Huai glanced at him and said nothing, "Then our An An is really kind."
Chu Chenan's scalp tingled when he was looked at by him. He put his hands on his shoulders, feeling a little guilty.
Lan Huai changed direction, handed Chu Chenan a small dagger, and stood at the door, asking him to take the hair of Zhang Fengting and Wu Yao.
"Be careful, don't hurt your hands." Lan Huai warned.
Chu Chenan nodded obediently. He felt like a child in Lan Huai's eyes, as Lan Huai had thought of everything for him.
After taking his hair, Lan Huai picked him up again, rubbed his soft hair, and let him lean on his shoulder, "Were you scared just now?"
Chu Chenan clenched the hair wrapped in cloth in his hand and said "hmm" softly.
Lan Huai held him tightly in his arms and carried him down the stairs. Chu Chenan couldn't help shivering when he thought about what had just happened.
He thought about having children again.
He likes babies, who are chubby and have a milky scent, and are very cute.
But he is a man after all, and he is still in the game world. He will leave one day, and he can't be selfish enough to leave the child here.
The child may be Lan Huai's eternal regret.
He suddenly looked up and asked Lan Huai, "Do you want a child?"
Lan Huai was cold, and his eyes changed obviously when he mentioned the child. He hugged Chu Chenan tightly and said, "Yes, I dreamed about it before."
Chu Chenan raised his eyes, "What did you dream about?"
"You gave birth to our baby. He looks like you. He's very small and very cute."
Chu Chenan lowered his eyes, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but curve as he thought of something in his mind.
But Lan Huai added, "But compared to the baby, you are more important. I know you have your worries, but I am glad I have you. Baby, it's okay. Having you by my side is more important than anything else."
Chu Chenan didn’t know how many times he had heard this sentence. Every time he heard it, he couldn’t help feeling dazed.
…
"I can't go in yet." Lan Huai walked him to the entrance of the Wushen Temple and said softly, "There is a priest inside who will take you there. Just do as he says. Do you remember the way home, baby?"
"Yes, I remember." Chu Chenan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Lan Huai was leaving, and asked politely, "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to revive." Lan Huai rubbed Chu Chen'an's face, holding his little hand and placing it on his cold face, "If everything goes well, I'll be back tomorrow. This way, when I hold you to sleep, you won't think I'm cold."
This reason made Chu Chenan's earlobes red.
Lan Huai spoke as easily as going to the market, and Chu Chenan lowered his eyes slightly. Only then did he remember that Lan Huai had used witchcraft to extract his own soul in order to find his soul, rather than committing suicide, so it should be possible to bring his soul back.
Lan Huai hugged him one last time: "Be good and wait for me to come back."
Chu Chenan said "Oh" and thought about the traveling group that was about to leave.
Can he leave?
…
After Lan Huai left, he strode into the Witch Temple. The Wushen Temple was completely different from any temple he had seen before.
It is very quiet here, with the occasional ethereal sound of ancient bells.
The priest who received him was an elderly white-haired man wearing a red robe and with strange patterns painted on his face.
The priest led him respectfully. After he put his hair into the furnace, he knelt in front of the statue of the witch god and respectfully lit three incense sticks to the statue.
After a loud "rip" sound.
A bright flame exploded in the furnace, and two priests jumped around the furnace, chanting spells that he could not understand.
After a long time, the flames in the furnace dimmed, and a few wisps of ash turned into smoke and floated out.
Zhang Fengting, who stayed in the bamboo house, felt heart-wrenching pain, which finally stopped after he vomited blood.
Chu Chenan looked at the extinguished fire and knew that the poison in Zhang Fengting's body should have been cured.
On the way back, he met He Xuesheng who was lying on the side of the road drawing a dog.
He Xuesheng greeted him, "Good morning, Chen An, where have you been?"
Chu Chenan said good morning, "I didn't go anywhere, just took a walk for a while."
He Xuesheng nodded, "By the way, Lao Liang said he plans to go back tomorrow, so you should pack up your things. We will probably leave early tomorrow morning."
Chu Chenan nodded. It was still uncertain whether he could leave, so he asked, "Can you take someone else with you?"
"Of course, who? Lan Xu?" He Xuesheng asked.
"No." Chu Chenan leaned close to He Xuesheng's ear and told him roughly about Zhang Fengting.
After hearing this, He Xuesheng was so angry that he broke the paintbrush in his hand and couldn't help cursing, "Damn it! There are such perverts!"
"Hush." Chu Chen'an was afraid that He Xuesheng would call people from the village, so he looked around. Fortunately, there were few people on the roadside and it was deserted.
He Xuesheng quickly covered his mouth and rolled up his sleeves. He was a naturally warm-hearted person, and at the moment he was full of fighting spirit, he whispered to Chu Chenan, "What's the plan now? Do we need to rob people?"
"No, no need!" Chu Chenan waved his hands and shook his head. "He is not imprisoned now. He is doing well at home. We just need to take him with us."
"Okay, that's good." He Xuesheng nodded, "Then remember to call me if you need anything."
Chu Chenan nodded. He did not disturb He Xuesheng from painting, nor did he want to go back to Lan Xu's house. He simply walked along the path near where He Xuesheng was, just to enjoy the scenery.
As he walked, he came to another road. After going around in a circle, he heard noisy voices coming from the temple not far away.
It turns out that everyone has gathered here.
Chu Chenan stood beside the door and looked inside from afar. He saw that the villagers were all wearing formal costumes, kneeling on the ground in a circle, chanting complicated and strange spells.
"Hey, get out of the way!"
Chu Chenan turned sideways, and a young villager holding a basin of water accidentally bumped into Chu Chenan's arm, almost spilling the water in the golden basin.
The villagers looked very young. After seeing Chu Chenan's face clearly, they hurriedly bowed and apologized, "Oh! Sorry, I didn't see there was someone here. I'm so sorry!"
Chu Chenan quickly said that it was okay, and asked: "What are you doing in there?"
"We are resurrecting the previous witch doctor. Although what we are doing is similar to praying for blessings, the key still depends on the current witch doctor, but the rules cannot be ignored." The young villager said respectfully, "You don't know? Our previous witch doctor was blessed by the witch god and was able to come back to life!"
The young villagers' eyes were full of faith and admiration.
Chu Chenan felt strange, "Shouldn't the resurrection be in front of... the coffin tomb?"
He looked into the distance and saw that everyone was kneeling under the altar, and there was no coffin in sight.
When the young villagers heard the word coffin and tomb, their faces turned pale. "The previous witch doctor has already entered the secret realm. How can there be a coffin and tomb?"
Chu Chenan was stunned. He clearly saw it last time.
"Isn't there a big coffin tomb in the woods behind the flower fields?"
"What did you say? The forest there was cleared three years ago and rice was planted."
The alarm bell rang loudly in Chu Chenan's heart.
So, everything he saw that day, was it what Lan Xu wanted him to see? !
"How can we be worthy of looking at the coffin and tomb of the previous sorcerer? Only the current sorcerer can do that. Not only the coffin and tomb, I heard from the priest that all the previous sorcerers can see souls." If it weren't for the relationship between Chu Chenan and Lan Xu, the young villager would not dare to say so much.
Chu Chenan was stunned. Lan Xu had clearly recognized who he was.
He walked around the temple and walked towards He Xuesheng in a panic.
"Chen An."
Chu Chenan looked back and saw Lan Xu standing not far away, smiling, "Where have you been? I've been looking for you for a long time."
Chu Chenan ran subconsciously and hid in the corner of an alley where there were houses.
His heart was beating wildly. Lan Xu had always known about Lan Huai's existence. So were those strange dreams he had actually true?
Chu Chenan squatted down, pressed his head against the bamboo wall, and just wanted to escape from reality.
"Knock."
There were two soft sounds coming from the bamboo wall.
Chu Chenan's heart trembled, and when he looked up, he saw Lan Xu's smile deepening.
Lan Xu asked him with a hint of grievance, "Why are you hiding from me?"
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