Chapter 323 [(*^▽^*)]
Lin Leyou readily agreed to the village chief's enthusiastic invitation, saying, "Sure, I'm a grown man and I'm not very good at cooking, so I'll definitely be coming over for meals often in the future."
Seeing that the boy had agreed and his expression was normal, without any sign of reluctance, the village chief knew that the boy truly didn't blame him, and only then did he feel relieved.
He led Lin Leyou toward his home, and Lin Leyou took the opportunity to subtly inquire about the place where his parents had the accident. He said he would find time to burn some paper money there later, and the village chief did not suspect anything and gave him an exact location.
Lin Leyou has not received any notification that the mission is complete yet, so it is estimated that further investigation is needed. There is no doubt that her grandparents, who were other relatives besides her parents, passed away soon after, because they were too saddened by her parents' death.
The only remaining question is the truth behind the parents' deaths.
His parents were both adults. Everyone in the village went out to look for the child, but his parents were the only ones who had an accident, and they both died together. Everyone else was fine, which seemed very strange no matter how you looked at it.
Especially that child, who is Huang Bing's child. Why did he only come back after his parents had an accident? There must be something more to it.
So... could it be that my parents' deaths are related to Huang Bing? Good heavens, are the participants in this instance actually sharing quest content with each other?
One participant is tasked by another? What kind of nonsense is this? If Lin Leyou didn't know that Huang Bing was a participant in the instance, once he found out that Huang Bing was involved in this matter, he would definitely think that Huang Bing was just an NPC villager in this instance, and would never think that he was a participant like himself!
Lin Leyou has now come to a deeper understanding of how disgusting this dungeon is. It's really disgusting. As expected, a dungeon with an S-level difficulty is not simple. There are traps everywhere. If you are not careful, you may fail by taking one wrong step. And the consequence of failure is a deduction of 5 million points!
If you are killed by another participant, not only will you lose 5 million points, but you will also lose 100,000 points, since those 100,000 points are to be awarded to the participant who killed you.
Lin Leyou's lips twitched. He felt that this rule was a bit wrong, but there was nothing he could do. A mission was a mission. It seemed that everyone in Jingu Village was a suspect, and the participants were likely to be children or the elderly.
After all, the system will be responsible for changing appearance, which means...
Lin Leyou looked at the village chief walking beside him. He couldn't rule out the possibility that the village chief wasn't a participant in the instance, so everyone in the village had to be cautious.
Only Xue Rui can be trusted to be teammates, standing together through thick and thin!
The village chief took him back to his home, which wasn't too far away, about a ten-minute walk, though you couldn't see his house from where he was standing.
The village chief's family also had a very kind grandmother. Lin Leyou's mood improved a lot when she saw this kind-smiling grandmother, and she ate lunch at their invitation.
He quickly found an excuse to leave, not to go anywhere else, but straight to the place where his parents had an accident, which he had learned from the village chief.
No, that's not right. It's the place where his parents' bodies were found, not the place where the accident happened. No one can be sure that this is the place where the accident happened.
After all, this is by the water, and the couple had half their bodies in the water. Perhaps they were swept away by an accident upstream. The village called the police, but they couldn't find anything.
After all, with such heavy rain, any clues would be washed away, and nothing would be found, leaving the matter unresolved.
I don't know if the village chief had anything to do with this, but judging from his expression, although he felt guilty when facing me, he didn't seem to have any ulterior motives, so I guess it's nothing to do with him.
If there really is a connection, then this old man's acting skills are truly remarkable.
However, we still need to find Huang Bing. We haven't been able to find him yet. What happened to him? Could something have happened to him?
No, no, Huang Bing is a powerful resident, how could something happen to him? Even if someone really wanted to kill him, Huang Bing couldn't have been killed without making a sound, right?
Moreover, he had just tested Jiang Xiaming. This man is Huang Bing's teammate. If something happens to Huang Bing, will he still be there leisurely trying to get information out of him?
Something feels off. Is Jiang Xiaming's teammate really Huang Bing? Or does Jiang Xiaming not know Huang Bing's current situation?
Lin Leyou slowly walked towards his destination, remaining vigilant as he went, since he didn't know if anyone might attack him on the way.
If some insane dungeon participant were to recklessly attack the villagers in the village, wouldn't that be terrible?
Although doing this would absolutely prevent him from completing the mission, and he would lose 5 million points if he failed, he might get lucky and be able to make up for some of the points by killing other participants.
However... the instance has only just begun, so there shouldn't be any participants this crazy yet.
Wait! Lin Leyou suddenly stopped in his tracks. He stood by the roadside, his expression somewhat grim. How could he have forgotten? This mission instance was of S-rank difficulty!
If you fail to pass the level, you will lose 5 million points! I do have that many points, but does Xue Rui have them?
No matter how powerful Xue Rui is, even with the hundreds of thousands of points he gained at the Snow Mountain Villa, he could never have a net worth of 5 million points!
In other words, if you fail to clear this dungeon, you'll be fine, but Xue Rui will definitely die! As a player, if your score goes negative, you'll die!
He had already witnessed players being killed by the system in the real world, seemingly because they didn't have enough points. Would that kind of death happen to Xue Rui?
Xue Rui did indeed travel several decades into the future in his previous life, but things are different now. In this life, Xue Rui encountered himself much earlier and was always unlucky enough to be assigned to the same instance as himself.
Lin Leyou is now basically certain that he is with Xue Rui, perhaps because his rebirth after his death in his previous life is absolutely related to Xue Rui.
Especially the thing he grabbed from Xue Rui's wrist before he was knocked away—this thing was definitely the key to his rebirth in the past, allowing him to enter the Endless World and become a villager ahead of time!
Perhaps the system has already bound them together! They're always placed in the same instance, even if they're enemies...
Lin Leyou took a deep breath, took out his phone, and sent a message to Xue Rui, "Anything to do now?"
Xue Rui replied shortly afterward, "I've found out that the room I'm staying in has indeed been partitioned. The wall in the middle was built later, but it was reinforced with a metal rod, so it can't be broken down easily. Moreover, it's completely sealed off on all sides, with no way to get in. I'm currently looking for a way in, either from above or below."
Lin Leyou said, "That's good. If you find any clues, let me know as soon as possible... If there's anything you don't know, you can also ask me. By the way, I ran into Jiang Xiaming outside this morning."
Xue Rui paused for a moment after reading it. Jiang Xiaming? Who is that again? The name sounds familiar... Wait! This Jiang Xiaming's name is very similar to Jiang Xiayue's name in the Snow Mountain Villa instance!
He realized something and quickly messaged Lin Leyou, "What exactly happened? Did he attack you? Could it be because of..."
Lin Leyou said, "Don't worry, he won't make a move against me for the time being."
Just because they won't now doesn't mean they won't later. I bet they'll cause trouble for Lin Leyou later and take the things back with them.
Xue Rui was anxious. "Is everything really alright? Tell me what this person looks like."
Lin Leyou didn't take any photos either. After all, given the situation, he couldn't very well take out his phone and take pictures in front of him, or the other party might attack him on the spot.
At the very least, the photos need to be deleted.
Lin Leyou said, "He looks a bit like Jiang Xiaoyue. If you can remember what Jiang Xiaoyue looks like, you'll probably recognize him when you see him. Even if his appearance has been altered, you can still tell the difference."
Xue Rui: "Okay, I'll go out and look for it now."
Lin Leyou's lips twitched. "Didn't your mother just drag you back home?"
Xue Rui was stunned for a moment after seeing the message, and then realized that the mother he was talking about was the mother of this identity in this instance. "She just brought me back, she didn't lock me up, she was very good to me, and she said that I was just being playful and that I didn't have to worry about anyone bullying me because of this. She told me to play however I wanted."
When Lin Leyou heard him say that, she felt something was wrong. Normal parents would never talk to their children like that, as if they were trying to completely ruin Lin Leyou.
Isn't Xue Rui their only child? Is this how only children are raised? Even in a rural area where information is somewhat limited, they wouldn't let their child be so unmotivated.
Lin Leyou: "There's a problem."
Xue Rui was certainly aware that there was something wrong with the way these parents were educating their children, but he couldn't find anything wrong with it for the time being. Perhaps the secret was hidden in the partitioned part of his room.
"I know there's a problem, I'm investigating."
Lin Leyou said, "I hope it goes smoothly."
Xue Rui: "By the way, that man's name is Jiang Xiaming, right?"
Lin Leyou said, "That's right. You're going to go out and look for it now? It's too obvious. Jiang Xiaming will connect it to me and might guess the relationship between us as teammates."
Xue Rui: "Don't worry, I'm definitely not that stupid. I'll just go for a walk, maybe I'll run into them. When that happens, I'll just throw dirty things at people passing by indiscriminately. What do you think?"
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