Chapter 5
When Yi Tu turned back, Fu Xue had already taken off her high-heeled shoes that prevented her from walking. Her white and tender feet easily scratched several bloody wounds when they stepped on the gravel mountain road.
Despite this, Fu Xue did not show any pain on her face. She endured the discomfort and held Huang Tianfang's hand tightly.
Ah Niu rushed over and picked her up, "Xiaoxue, are you okay?"
Seeing that the person coming was his partner, Fu Xue's face lit up with joy and he said anxiously:
"Hurry up and help Huang Tianfang, she just got hit in the leg by that thing!"
Yi Tu rushed over and quickly helped Huang Tianfang, who was unable to move, up without saying a word.
There was no time to explain. Aniu pulled Fu Xue, and Yi Tu and Ruan Mengmeng supported the lame Huang Tianfang and hurried down the mountain.
But the panting sounds behind them were getting closer and closer, so heavy that it seemed to be spraying on their backs, and it was very cold.
The little girl Ruan Mengmeng was so scared that her face turned pale and her whole body was shaking, and her legs began to lose strength.
"Mengmeng is fine, don't be afraid..."
Huang Tianfang noticed that something was wrong with her and held Ruan Mengmeng's hand tightly.
"No, no, it's right behind me!"
Ruan Mengmeng screamed in despair, and that creepy aura snaked up like a snake, crawling along her back and covering her whole body bit by bit.
She felt like a prey paralyzed by snake venom, unable to move.
"Don't look back!" Fu Xue's warning was ultimately too late.
Ruan Mengmeng couldn't help but turn her head back, and when she turned back, a ghost face covered with black hair came into her sight.
It smiled ferociously at it and opened its bloody mouth excitedly.
"ah!!!"
A shrill scream echoed throughout the forest. Yitu was shocked and turned back subconsciously.
There was nothing behind him. Ruan Mengmeng disappeared from the spot, leaving only a large pool of horrible blood on the ground, and... Huang Tianfang's left hand that she was holding tightly to her.
Ruan Mengmeng's left arm was neatly bitten off, revealing the white bones and the blurry flesh hanging on them.
The person is gone.
"...Ms. Huang, let go." Yi Tu said softly.
After witnessing this bloody scene, Yitu felt a little overwhelmed.
Huang Tianfang's body trembled violently when she heard Yi Tu's words.
When she turned around and saw the large pool of blood on the ground and the arm that was gradually getting colder, she shuddered all over, quickly threw the broken arm away, and fell to the ground in fright.
Yi Tu was also frightened by this scene, but he was more frightened of the consequences. He was much calmer than Huang Tianfang and quickly pulled her up.
"Go!"
When the four of them came down from the mountain, Huang Tianfang was still in a daze.
"The little girl... is gone?" Zhang Queshan said softly when he only saw these four people.
Yi Tu nodded silently. Ruan Mengmeng was ranked last, and the NPCs in the card field would attack her first.
Without any props or skills, she couldn't escape at all.
"Before she died, I held her hand..."
Huang Tianfang's voice was trembling. She still couldn't believe that the person who was by her side in the last second was left with only a bloody arm in the next second.
"She is, is, is dead?!" Lin Fei widened his eyes and screamed.
"You still think this is a joke?" Zhao Haichuan said coldly.
Ruan Mengmeng's death was most likely related to Lin Fei's nonsense, so Yi Tu remained silent.
Fu Xue told them that she, Huang Tianfang and Ruan Mengmeng fell behind and were being followed closely by something.
During this time, Fu Xue couldn't help but look back, and her scalp went numb with fright.
It was a ghost-like creature covered in black and horrible hair. It was extremely tall and agile. For some reason, she couldn't move when she saw that twisted ghost face.
It's like the soul has been pulled out of the body.
If Huang Tianfang hadn't pulled her in time, she would probably have died on the spot like Ruan Mengmeng.
It was when Huang Tianfang blocked the attack for Fu Xue that the thing hit her leg.
In just half a day, another player died in the card room, and everyone's mood was inevitably heavy.
They did not make any useless stops. When Yitu and Aniu carried the stone tablet to the village chief's house, the village chief was already waiting for them at the door.
He was accompanied by a shy-looking boy of about fifteen or sixteen years old. He was the village chief's grandson, Meng Tongsheng.
As soon as everyone came over, the boy went back into the house with an evasive look.
Yitu felt a little strange, but didn't think too much about it.
He walked up to the village chief and said:
"Village chief, we have brought the stone tablet back."
The village chief nodded and said, "This is the one. It's perfect for a temple stele."
Huang Tianfang said in a deep voice: "Village Chief, didn't you tell us that there was something on the mountain?"
The village chief was stunned. "What is it?"
"Oh, you're talking about the wild dogs and wolves in the mountains, right?" The village chief suddenly remembered and said apologetically:
"There were still these things on the mountain in the early years, but they have been hunted down by the villagers in recent years. There is only one left..."
"We haven't been able to catch a mandrill yet." At this point, the village chief's expression changed slightly:
"My son was bitten by it thirteen years ago... Did you encounter it in the mountains?"
He glanced at the players one by one and soon discovered that one of them was missing.
"We were chased by it for a while when we were going down the mountain..." Zhao Haichuan paused:
"One of my companions disappeared while running."
The village chief shook his head with a hint of regret. "That person definitely won't survive. You don't have to look for him anymore. It's almost dinner time. Come back and eat."
"You still have other things to do after dinner." The village chief muttered and went into the house, no longer paying attention to the players' doubts.
The lunch prepared by the village chief at noon was quite rich, with fish, meat, and a few stir-fries that smelled delicious.
The village chief did not sit at the table, but just looked at them with a smile: "Eat quickly, eat quickly, only when you are full will you have the strength to work."
After he said that, everyone's appetite, which had been so hard to arouse, disappeared instantly.
After eating, you have to go to work, and working may lead to your death.
This meal was undoubtedly the last lunch for the unlucky ones among them.
Yitu took out the game cards during the meal break and checked them. At this time, Judith's clues had covered the entire surface of the cards.
Judith:
This card game mission has been completed 1/4, the plot has advanced 11%, the player ranks seventh, and the data panel has changed, please check.
After Ruan Mengmeng's death, his ranking seemed to remain unchanged at seventh, but in fact he had dropped from third from the bottom to second from the bottom.
Lin Fei, who was ranked last, had lost his previous nonchalant and fearless look and was fiddling with the rice anxiously.
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First place: Duan Zixi (94 votes)
Second place: Zhao Haichuan (56 votes)
Third place: Fu Xue, Aniu (45 votes)
Fifth place: Zhangque Mountain: 13 (votes)
Sixth place: Huang Tianfang: 7 (votes)
Seventh place: Yitu (0 votes)
Eighth place: Lin Fei (0 votes)
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Without the recommendation vote from the card room owner, his ranking would never have improved.
The possibility of falling to the last place was very high. Yitu pondered for a moment and put away the game cards.
"Village chief, what are we going to do after dinner?" he asked, looking up.
Only a quarter of the game mission has been completed, and what they are about to do next may be very dangerous.
"The stone tablet has not been engraved yet. After you finish your meal, go find Liu the stonemason and he will engrave the words on it."
"Liu the stonemason's home is at the easternmost end of the village. Find him and he will help you solve the problem."
The village chief pointed to the east, and the second task was similar to what Yi Tu had thought.
After all, it is going to be a temple stele, so naturally words have to be engraved on the stone stele.
"Village chief, what words should be engraved on the stone tablet?" Fu Xue asked with a smile.
Yi Tu glanced at her. Fu Xue was a very smart woman and quickly grasped the key clue.
She is not just a facade, otherwise she wouldn't have survived in the card game for so long.
If they knew what was engraved on the temple stele, they would get an important clue.
Generally, temple steles would be engraved with words about the merits of the deceased, but this temple is not a common temple among the people.
It is very likely that there really is an evil god invited in, so the name of the evil god will most likely be engraved on the temple stele.
"Liu the stonemason can carve the words on the stone tablet."
The village chief did not answer her question, but just repeated it again.
Fu Xue was a little unwilling and asked again, but got the same answer.
At this moment, the village chief's expression was dull and stiff, repeating the same lines like a robot:
"Liu the stonemason's home is the one at the easternmost end of the village. Find him and he will help you solve the problem."
Zhao Haichuan shook his head to stop Fu Xue, "Don't ask, he's just an NPC who provides fixed answers."
Fu Xue was a little discouraged. This was the card game where she had received the least information so far, so it was inevitable that she felt a little restless.
"Is this card game really the Three of Hearts? Why is the game time so short? It's already the second day, and no information has been given yet?"
In the past, card games were all within seven days, and some even had no time limit, but this one was different, it only lasted three days.
These three days include the day they arrived and the day of the village festival.
"Tomorrow is the village festival," Fu Xue said with a complicated expression, "Are you really not afraid?"
"Of course I'm afraid." Zhao Haichuan said, "But it's not the village festival yet, right? We still have time."
"Let's talk about it later." Fu Xue sneered, "Whether I can survive the afternoon and evening is another matter."
The meaningless conversation resulted in no one enjoying the lunch.
Yitu ate a few mouthfuls of food and drank a bowl of soup and that was it.
The others were similar to him, moving their chopsticks a few times and then putting them down.
After finishing the meal, Yitu asked:
"Do you want to continue?"
Although he knew that the players would most likely not be able to resist the card game, he still wanted to ask without giving up.
"Yes." Duan Zixi nodded seriously. "The stone tablet is very likely related to the house number. If we miss this only clue, we might be doomed tomorrow."
Although they knew that if they continued to complete the tasks assigned by the village chief, more people would die, they had no choice.
According to the village chief, Liu the Stonecarver's house is the one at the easternmost end of the village, but the players did not rush directly to Liu the Stonecarver's house. Instead, they dispersed and looked around the village.
Yitu discovered that the villagers who were not seen at night rarely came out during the day. Although the doors of every household were open, there were almost no people outside the yard.
He stood at the door and looked into a house. An old woman with white hair was standing straight in front of her own hall. She was wearing a black dress that looked like funeral clothes.
There was no trace of blood on her face, and her pale skin almost blended into the mottled white wall behind her. Spider webs were everywhere under the black eaves, and the shriveled corpses of rats could be seen in the corners.
This house is the easternmost one in the village, and it is obvious that it does not look like a stonemason's home.
"Should we go ask?" Lin Fei couldn't help but shudder, "Why does it look like, like a zombie..."
Although this old lady was a little weird, she was much better than the other households they had seen along the way.
The situation of other households is really bad, because they are probably no longer considered human.
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