Chapter 345 [(*^▽^*)]
Zhao Changzhou could only watch from afar as Lin Leyou and Xue Rui's figures disappeared into the night.
That's right, it's dark now. After what just happened, it's all dark now.
After returning home, the two closed the door, sat on the bed, and symbolically searched every nook and cranny of the house. They were slightly relieved after finding nothing.
The two mechanical spiders were still at Luo Qingzhou's house. Luo Qingzhou had been captured and sent to the town's hospital. After all, he had been shot and needed bandaging. It was unknown whether he had calmed down yet.
But Niu Xiaohua's corpse...
When the police found him, his chest and head had been hacked to pieces, making him unrecognizable. The only intact part was an eyeball lying on the side, facing the direction the police had come from.
Some newly recruited police officers were too frightened to go over; after a couple of glances and the strong smell of blood, they retreated to the side and vomited.
Lin Leyou, "Should we match the missions?"
Xue Rui nodded, "No problem, the sixth task is to organize a massacre."
Lin Leyou nodded, "I'm on the same mission as you. It seems the missions after this will all be the same."
Xue Rui: "That's good, we don't have to do our own tasks separately, but... correspondingly, it feels like the difficulty has also increased somewhat."
Lin Leyou said, "These tasks are full of pitfalls from the very first one. You have to be extremely careful with every step you take, or you will fail."
Xue Rui: "Me too, and that hidden danger still hasn't been eliminated. When they come back in a couple of days, they'll definitely make me go home to stay, and then..."
Lin Leyou said, "Just don't go back to live there. Don't worry, they can't force you."
Xue Rui said, "I'm afraid they'll make a big fuss about it."
Just as Lin Leyou was about to say something, his phone received a message. It wasn't Lin Leyou's phone, which belonged to the villagers in this instance, but his own phone. When he opened it, he saw that it was a message from Zhao Changzhou.
"Comrade Lin Leyou, that's not fair of you!"
Lin Leyou couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw the message. Xue Rui leaned over to take a look and asked, "Hmm?"
Lin Leyou replied, "Sorry, I didn't think that much at the time. It was really urgent. Are you alright?"
Zhao Changzhou: "We're back for now. Fortunately, we're innocent. The chef and the others proved that Luo Qingzhou killed Niu Xiaohua all by himself. We're also victims. They've let us go home and rest for now."
Lin Leyou, "And then?"
Zhao Changzhou said, "We'll have to see how things go. It's best not to be taken to the police station for questioning. I really can't stand it!"
Deducting 10,000 points per minute? Who can stand that? It's better to just die. Dying only deducts 5 million points, but if you go to the police station, the amount deducted is uncertain and depends entirely on the time.
Anyway, Zhao Changzhou still has a teammate. As long as his teammate can make it to the end and successfully complete the game, he will also be considered to have completed the game. It's just that the two women are in a worse situation.
Teams of two, splitting up for the first few tasks, can do the same tasks later if they can both manage. Teaming up is definitely much better than going it alone.
Lin Leyou, "Would you mind telling me what your mission is?"
Zhao Changzhou seemed to hesitate for a while, or perhaps he went to discuss it with Qin Fengmian, before finally sending a message: "It's related to Luo Qingzhou, but this little mission failed."
Lin Leyou: "Failed? Is there a punishment?"
Zhao Changzhou: "The mission was to rescue Niu Xiaohua, but Niu Xiaohua was killed by Luo Qingzhou, so the mission was deemed a failure and we skipped directly to the next mission."
Lin Leyou, "Is it convenient to talk about it?"
Zhao Changzhou, "Why are you asking that?"
Lin Leyou said, "If our missions are related, we can help each other out."
Zhao Changzhou: "What if there's no contact, or the opposite?"
Lin Leyou stroked his chin, seemingly agreeing. "That makes sense. Well then, it's not a big deal if a small task fails. Keep up the good work, Comrade Zhao Changzhou."
Upon seeing the message, Zhao Changzhou sighed deeply, "Thank you for your kind words."
He put down his phone and checked his next task. The system notification said that his next task was to fulfill Xue Rui's parents' wish.
He looked at the task and gasped. Wasn't Xue Rui Lin Leyou's teammate? The little kid standing next to him.
Is he really capable of completing this task? Or should he just give up?
If we give up, won't the next task be even more difficult? And what are Xue Rui's parents' wishes?
After much deliberation, he finally concluded that Xue Rui's parents' wish was for the soul of the deceased Xiao Bao to return and share a body with their eldest son, Xue Rui, so that they would essentially have two sons.
So... what should we do? Let's talk to Lao Qin about it.
The news of Luo Qingzhou killing Niu Xiaohua didn't spread at all, since it happened at night, and in Luo Qingzhou's own home, plus the police deliberately blocked the news.
It wasn't until the next day, when the villagers saw that police tape had been put up near Luo Qingzhou's house, that they realized something had happened at his house. Moreover, with the chef and a few other eyewitnesses present, the news gradually spread.
Before long, everyone in Jingu Village knew that Luo Qingzhou had hacked Niu Xiaohua to death on the evening of his wedding day.
This incident caused a huge uproar in the village. Everyone forgot about Jiang Xiaming and Huang Bing and started talking about this whole thing.
And... something unexpected yet reasonable happened: of the five people who attended the wedding yesterday, apart from Lin Leyou and Xue Rui, Zhao Changzhou, Huajiao, and Qin Jiao all fell ill at the same time.
Some people with high fevers fell into a coma, while others were delirious and talking incoherently.
The three of them were taken to a nearby clinic by their family and friends for IV drips. Fortunately, the clinic was located within the Jingu Village area, so they were lucky enough not to lose any points.
Their illness did not go unnoticed by the villagers, and now the discussion among them became even more heated, with everyone thankful that they had not attended the wedding.
Otherwise, if they get sick from the curse, that's the least of their worries; if it gets serious, Luo Qingzhou could just kill them.
Lin Leyou wasn't too surprised when he heard about this. "It seems... that wedding a few years ago probably wasn't successful either, so the people who attended all came back sick. The few who weren't sick were probably not there when something happened, like us, they had something to do and left."
Xue Rui: "It seems our calculations were quite accurate."
Lin Leyou: "Should we go see them now?"
Xue Rui: "You're not familiar with those two women, are you going to see Zhao Changzhou?"
Lin Leyou said, "Forget it, if we go see him now, he'll probably think we're just here to watch the show. Let's focus on the mission first."
Xue Rui also wanted to complete the mission as soon as possible, but he didn't know where the clues were to stop a massacre. He couldn't just rely on the mechanical spiders they had placed in the village without any clues.
Lin Leyou said, "There's probably a clue. Let's see if we can find it."
Xue Rui said, "I know several grandmothers in the villages who love gossip the most. They're probably all gathered together now. Should we go over and ask them?"
Lin Leyou said, "Since I have some time, I'll go take a look."
Xue Rui came out of the kitchen with breakfast in hand. "Brother Lin, have breakfast first."
Lin Leyou smiled slightly after seeing it, "Your cooking is still the best."
Xue Rui sat down calmly. "Isn't what Brother Lin makes good?"
Lin Leyou sat opposite him and said, "It's not that it's bad, it's just passable. I didn't expect you to be such a good cook."
Xue Rui didn't know how to cook, but often when he came home there was no food to eat. The cook had left, and there was no food left for him.
There was no other way, so he had to do it himself. Later, when he lived alone, he didn't like having anyone in his private space, so he learned to do things himself. Now it seems that it was all worth it.
After breakfast, the two of them took a walk outside and soon found the place where the gossipy grandmothers often gathered to chat.
When the grandmothers saw them, they invited them over, which saved them the trouble of finding topics to talk about and join in. The two of them went over and sat down next to the grandmothers.
Before they could even speak, an elderly woman whispered, "Did you two go to a wedding yesterday?"
Lin Leyou understood. So that's what they were asking about. That makes sense. Of the five people who went to the wedding, three of them collapsed and were getting IV drips at the clinic. Also, the chef they hired wasn't from this village.
Now that it's just the two of them, I couldn't help but call them over when I saw them.
Lin Leyou: "Yes, we went to participate. Besides us, there were only three of us getting IV drips at the clinic."
"You guys are really something, not sick at all!"
Lin Leyou: "Maybe it's because we're young and healthy."
"Those two girls aren't very old, but girls are probably a bit weaker. By the way, is it true that something happened over there? Do you know about it?"
Lin Leyou was happy to satisfy their curiosity, since she would have to ask them later if anything else had happened in the village. "It's true, Luo Qingzhou went crazy for some reason and killed Niu Xiaohua with a knife."
"Oh dear! I told you it was true, but you wouldn't believe me!"
"Xiaolin, what else do you know? Do you know why this is?"
Lin Leyou pondered for a while and said, "I don't know much either. At that time, there were still half an hour before they were to get married, but I suddenly remembered that I hadn't locked the door when I left home. I thought about the fugitive I hadn't caught yet, so I thought I would go back and lock the door. Xiao Rui accompanied me there. Before we even got home, we ran into two police officers on patrol. After chatting for a bit, the chef who was cooking rushed out with a few people and said that something had happened."
“We rushed over. When the police went in, Luo Qingzhou was still holding a knife and trying to slash them. Fortunately, he was shot in the leg and then arrested and sent to the hospital.”
"When we went in..."
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