Chapter 6 Science is the primary productive force!
Everyone paid a high price to get this lantern. The only one who was more relaxed was Jian Yue, because he got it purely by extortion.
The members of the archaeological team stood at the door with grim faces.
The president had a sense of arrogance that didn't care about other people's lives. When he found other people standing below, he showed a bit of surprise. He asked, "Why are you still here?"
Others: “…”
So where should they be.
It seemed as if he finally remembered.
Mr. Shen waved his hand and said, “Go back, and let Aunt Zhang take you to the guest room in the backyard.”
After saying this, everyone noticed that the woman who had been standing in the corner of the hall had a hunched back and her hair was white but neatly combed. Her face was covered with vine-like wrinkles. When she looked up, her eyes were particularly dark and deep. She was particularly silent, and if she hadn't been mentioned, no one would have noticed that there was someone here.
Aunt Zhang spoke slowly, her voice old but with an inexplicable sense of darkness: "Yes, Master."
Jian Yue was the closest, and his whole body felt numb. He unconsciously leaned towards Shen Yushu, lowered his head and whispered, "Master, she is...?"
Shen Yushu said calmly, "He is the old housekeeper of this house. My mother's generation stayed here to guard the house."
He is actually a local!!
To be honest, if there weren't such people, Jian Yue would almost suspect that there were no residents in this village!
Jian Yue seemed to be lost in thought. He remembered that his main plot was to find the secret of Wanfu Village before he could leave. So this old butler must be an important clue.
So Jian Yue asked, "Master, the old housekeeper has always been in charge of the affairs of the house?"
The words fell.
Shen Yushu glanced at Jian Yue with a very strange look, as if he had not expected Jian Yue to say such a thing, and said, "She has been in this house all the time, so she is naturally responsible. As for you, Steward Wang, since you have followed me here, it depends on your performance in the future. There will be a place for you."
Jian Yue: “…”
No, boss, that's not what he meant!
What's there to fight for in this shabby haunted house? He would rather not have to do anything!
Jian Yue smiled and said, "Master, you worry too much. Aunt Zhang looks so reliable. Since she has been managing this house for so many years, it is only right that she should be in charge of it."
As soon as the words fell, the system voice rang.
System: "Trigger the character's hidden mission - [Zhang Ma's Secret]"
Mission content: Players who don’t want to be a good employee are not good housekeepers. Please compete with Aunt Zhang for the right to be a housekeeper.
Task time limit: unlimited
Mission Reward: Shen's Warehouse Key
Jian Yue: “…”
Why don't you wait until the copy is finished before publishing it?
He complained in his heart.
But his face immediately turned serious, and he straightened his back: "But then again, Master, you have been so kind to me, how can I feel at ease leaving your food, clothing, shelter and transportation to someone else? As long as I can take good care of you, I will go through fire and water without any regrets!"
楰０磶
Shen Yushu looked at him with a look that said, "I know you are a man who says one thing and means another." "Butler Wang."
Jian Yue immediately lowered his head: "Master?"
The boss must have been so moved by him that he burst into tears. He must have cried and shouted that he had never seen such a loyal servant and wanted to hand over the management of the entire house to him.
Shen Yushu said, "This is what you should do. Also, next time, speak in one breath, otherwise your salary will be deducted."
Jian Yue: “…”
Evil capitalists!!
One day he will turn the tables and become the master!!
Shen Yushu simply gave some instructions and then returned to the lounge in the main house. He did not ask Jian Yue to serve him, probably because Aunt Zhang had already made the bed and there was no need for him.
Jian Yue could follow the group to the guest rooms at the back to rest.
The night is dark.
The sky was pitch black. It was a scorching summer day, but there was no sound of cicadas in the entire village. There was only a dead silence. The incandescent lights in the corridor emitted a pale light, and the shadows all around seemed to be dormant in the grass, which was even more creepy.
Aunt Zhang walked in the front, and the others followed behind. She pointed to the yard in front and said, "You guys live there."
The archaeological team saw the dilapidated old house at the back.
The broken bricks and tiles were covered with moss, which really made people wonder if no one had lived here for a hundred or eighty years. However, no one dared to despise it. After all, it was good to have a place to live. They didn't want to sleep outside in the village. After all, the monster in the fog was more terrifying.
Wen Yu smiled and said, "Thank you, housekeeper. We just arrived here and don't know much about the local customs. I would like to ask if there is anything we should pay attention to, so as not to cause any trouble."
Aunt Zhang glanced at him sideways. Her dark yellow eyes looked grim, and when she stared at people, it was as if she was looking at a dead object.
Wen Yu's smile froze on her face.
Aunt Zhang slowly turned her eyes away and said slowly, "Don't go out at night and don't run around."
Scarface asked, "What if you get up at night? This is unavoidable."
Aunt Zhang seemed not to have heard anything. She stood in the darkness, her hunched body curled up like a dormant turtle shell. As if she was remembering something terrifying, she kept muttering, "Don't go out at night, don't run around..."
She kept repeating the same thing over and over again, and it was as if she couldn't hear anything else anyone else said.
The players looked at each other and had no choice but to give up.
It seems that there is nothing more to be learned from this NPC. Fortunately, at least they know one condition for survival.
Wen Yu smiled and said, "Thank you, we got it."
Aunt Zhang looked at Jian Yue and pointed to a separate house not far away and said, "You live here."
Jian Yue looked over and it seemed that the housekeeper did have some advantages. This place was not far from the president's bedroom, and it was a separate small courtyard separated from the archaeological team. Although this might be a bit more dangerous, after all, sometimes more people would provide more help, but he didn't think those people would help him. He even felt that the allocation of this house was very small, which at least could prevent others from harming him.
So Jian Yue nodded and said, "Thank you."
After the houses and residences were allocated, Aunt Zhang was like an invisible ghost. Although she was quite old, her legs and feet were nimble and she disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Jian Yue simply returned to his room.
Unexpectedly, the outside was overgrown with weeds and looked shabby, but the inside was very clean and tidy, the bed was made, and there was even water in the kettle, but he didn't dare to drink it.
It was such an exhausting day, climbing the mountain and buying lanterns. He was so tired that he lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
I originally thought I would sleep till dawn.
Unexpectedly, Jian Yue opened his eyes after sleeping for only half a day.
There was a rustling sound outside the window, not loud but not light either, like the sound of something crawling and moving slowly along the wall. It was very close, just outside the door.
Jian Yue was originally sleeping in a daze, until he heard a slight sound from the window and suddenly opened his eyes!
The moonlight shines down.
There were shadows outside the window, and the shadows of the weeds and trees in the yard cast shadows down, as if there were figures swaying outside. No, it cannot be said as if, the rustling sound definitely meant there was something!
Not human.
Jian Yue listened quietly. He had been a forensic doctor for many years and his ears were very sensitive. He knew that the weight of the footsteps was not right. It did not match the sound of force that a human of any age should have.
Can……
If it’s not a human, then what is it?
The sound outside the window appeared again. Jian Yue slowly turned his head. It was the sound of fingernails sliding sharply on wooden boards. The sticky and slippery body was tightly attached to the wall beside his bed, making a clumsy sound as it moved, hitting the wall again and again, and was slowly moving towards the door. Fortunately, Jian Yue had the habit of closing the door.
If the door was open, he might be staring into the eyes of the thing outside at this moment.
The audience in the live broadcast room was obviously excited:
“Here it comes!”
“Fuck, this is so scary!!”
"This thing is scarier than the monster in the fog."
"The newbie must be scared too."
Although Jian Yue's live broadcast room was recommended, its popularity has not been very high. After all, most people think that he is just lucky and there is nothing else to recommend him.
Because his cards were not offensive at all, he had no power to fight back when facing monsters. Some viewers in the live broadcast room even started placing bets on where he would die.
A dark red light appeared from the distant yard.
The subtle voices of the archaeologists drifted over here with Feng Youruo. They should be telling each other: "Light the lanterns, light the lanterns quickly, if you light the lanterns they won't come in!"
Red lantern.
Jian Yue wanted to turn on the light in the room, but found that the light switch that used to light up normally at night would not light up no matter how hard he pressed it.
Instantly, he remembered the description of the task details when the system released the task: [When night falls, it is pitch black, and red lanterns are used for lighting at night]
So that's how it is.
Jian Yue glanced sideways at the lantern that he had casually placed on the table. He stood up, walked over, picked it up and took a look.
The big red lanterns in the village chief's house were made of paper, and the wick inside was also red. It looked like the material was very solid. Perhaps because the archaeological team had lit lanterns, the monsters that were originally crawling around outside were stopped outside the yard. Following the scent of living people, they all came to Jian Yue's yard, and the sound of the grass outside became louder.
Want to light a lamp?
Jian Yue looked at the matchbox not far away and was silent for a moment.
The audience in the live broadcast room was even more anxious than him:
"Hold on! Hold on and don't light the light!!"
"It's useless. Newbies are so scared during their first dungeon that they don't even have time to think."
"His card is on cooldown, so it's impossible to give him a hint."
"If you don't light the lamp, you will die now. If you light the lamp, you will die later. There is no solution."
Just when the audience thought that Jian Yue would definitely light the lamp with this move, Jian Yue reached out his hand, rubbed a little lamp oil with his fingertips, put it under his nose and smelled it, and he frowned slightly.
It tastes a bit familiar.
It's actually made of that kind of thing.
Jian Yue put the lamp down, he sighed, looked back and saw the sound of nails scratching the wall outside was getting louder and louder, he raised his eyebrows: "You won't leave until you light the lamp, right?"
The monsters outside the door seemed to see hope and stopped moving.
Jian Yue looked like he was about to give up resistance, and he said, "Okay then!"
Just when the audience and monsters in the live broadcast room thought he was going to light the lamp, Jian Yue walked to the table and took out the flashlight from the suitcase. He first put the village chief's lantern at the door, then moved a chair over and illuminated the red lantern with the flashlight. By the way, he took out a few power banks from his bag to charge the flashlight.
The red light suddenly lit up, even brighter than a candle.
Jian Yue said, "It is said that red lanterns can illuminate the darkness of the night. This is also a red lantern, and it is genuine from the village chief. How about a cyber lantern? Our boss said that technology is the primary productive force, right?"
Almost instantly.
The moment the red light came on, the whole world became quiet.
The monsters were also dumbfounded.
The audience in the live broadcast room were also dumbfounded:
"Wo... wo, this is a cyber copy of a scary mountain village."
"Is this possible?"
"No, can we still play like this?!!"
"Why the hell didn't I think of that back then!!!"
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