Chapter 473 [(*^▽^*)]
Xue Rui took his hand, and the two walked together into the village. "How could they not be here? They must all be in the village."
Lin Leyou said, "These people will be arriving in Xiushan Village soon. If Xiushan Village is as normal as it is, they probably won't believe it."
Xue Rui: "Maybe, but even so, it's fine. They might act at night and take these people to the thieves' pit?"
Lin Leyou muttered to himself, "A thief's pit... a thief's pit... I wonder how big this thief's pit is, should we go and take a look?"
Xue Rui said, "We can go take a look, but let's wait until everyone has been thrown in or died before we do."
Lin Leyou nodded, and the two quickly returned to the village, greeting the villagers warmly along the way. They smiled back enthusiastically, "You're back?"
"Was it fun outside? You're back so early today!"
"Want to come hunting with me?"
"What are you hunting for? You should go now!"
"Honey, don't kick my butt, I'm coming right now..."
Lin Leyou watched them bickering with amusement; the atmosphere was truly therapeutic!
After returning to their lodgings, the two caught two chickens and collected many eggs. They then took two large lunchboxes from their backpacks, packed all the prepared food into them, and slowly left.
As I left, I greeted the villagers I met warmly. In the real world, it would be tiring and annoying to keep greeting people, but I didn't feel that way at all here.
They only exchanged a few words before letting Lin Leyou and Xue Rui leave on their own, while they bickered and argued amongst themselves, seemingly having a very good relationship.
As bystanders, Lin Leyou and his companion naturally felt very happy watching this scene.
"When they arrived at the previous location, they were astonished to find that all the traces of the explosion had disappeared, and the place had been restored to its original state!"
Lin Leyou rubbed his eyes and looked at it carefully again. "How could this be? Is this real?"
Xue Rui nodded, "It's true, I didn't expect it to recover automatically."
Lin Leyou glanced back at Xiushan Village, which remained unchanged from before. "It seems that the place we are in has probably been included in the territory of Xiushan Village as well."
"As long as it is within the village, anything that is damaged can be restored within a certain period of time."
"That's good. This way, if the village is damaged by these people, it can be restored quickly, and they won't be homeless."
Xue Rui blinked. "Someone's coming. Shall we launch a surprise attack?"
Lin Leyou snapped out of his thoughts and nodded, taking out his empty gun. "I'll stay here, you stay over there. If anyone survives after I shoot, remember to finish them off."
Xue Rui, "How about we beat him half to death or knock him unconscious and dump him in the thieves' pit?"
Lin Leyou nodded, "That's fine, but knocking someone unconscious is harder than killing them, so I'll be a little careful."
Xue Rui: "Okay."
Lin Leyou murmured, "Are the people thrown into the thief's pit considered dead or alive? If they're alive, do we have to wait until they're all dead before we can leave the instance?"
Xue Rui paused for a moment, a hint of something unreadable flashing in his eyes. "Isn't this a good thing?"
Lin Leyou looked at him in surprise. "Pretty good? Hmm... Now that you mention it, it does seem pretty good. We can stay here for a while."
Xue Rui: "Yes, this place is very nice, I like it very much, if only..."
I wish I could have that kind of life in the real world, but dreams are just dreams. Other people's dreams may come true, but my own dreams will never be realized.
He and his partner can only meet and date in the game instance.
Lin Leyou looked at him, "What's wrong? Daydreaming again?"
Xue Rui shook his head, "It's okay, I'm happy to be able to stay a little longer."
Lin Leyou was stunned for a moment before he realized that Xue Rui could only meet him inside the dungeon. Naturally, he wished the time could be longer, since the time inside the dungeon didn't count towards the outside time. The time when the dungeon started was the time when he returned.
Looking at it this way, wow! Does this mean that for Xue Rui, his existence is just like a dream?
So tragic! So heartbreaking!
However, Lin Leyou still didn't plan to tell Xue Rui about her situation; now was not the time!
Before long, the people they were waiting for arrived. This time, there were two of them. Lin Leyou shot the man on the left in the right shoulder. At the same time, the man on the right was pinned to the ground by Xue Rui and injected with a super-strong sedative. The two men were thus subdued.
Lin Leyou looked at the man groaning on the ground. Xue Rui casually slapped him, knocking him unconscious, and said, "I'll drag them to the village entrance and hand them over to the villagers so they can throw them into the thieves' pit behind there."
As he left, he said, "I'll be back soon."
Lin Leyou: "Understood, I'll keep an eye on things here."
Xue Rui grabbed their arms and dragged them all the way to the village entrance, where two villagers saw him and asked, "What's going on?"
Xue Rui said, "This is food for you. You can throw it into that pit."
"Oh right, he was thrown into the thieves' pit and he's still alive. Don't worry, I'll make sure he lives a little longer."
"Leave it to me, I'll throw it in the back!"
Xue Rui nodded, handed the two people over to him, and then turned and left quickly.
"Hey, this kid's pretty fast, huh? Why the rush?"
"Isn't he going to find his girlfriend? These two boys really have a good relationship!"
"Hehe, let's go, let's leave these two little thieves in the back and have another good meal."
Just then, the two of them slowly woke up. One of them had made preparations in advance, and the sedative he had injected had its effects greatly reduced by the props he had prepared beforehand, which is why he was able to wake up. The other one was simply woken up by the pain, since he had been knocked unconscious by Xue Rui.
"Oh, you're awake?"
Unlike what Xue Rui and Lin Leyou saw, what these two awakened people saw was...
Two corpses, so rotten that no trace of healthy skin could be seen, their flesh even turned pitch black, with some bones exposed in places, yet their eyeballs remained intact in their sockets, were staring at them and laughing.
"ah!!!"
If they had seen it from a distance and been prepared, they certainly wouldn't have been scared, but now... they were actually scared unconscious.
"Oh dear, you're dizzy again. Your mentality is really bad!"
"Forget it, vengeful spirits don't need people with good attitudes anyway. Let's go, we still have other things to do. We need to cut paper-cuts, the 'double happiness' paper-cut, and other paper-cuts, and also a big red cloth!"
"It seems like we had some red cloth left over from before. Let's take it out and use it again. It's not broken. Oh, and doesn't that old woman's house have some nice tables, chairs, benches, good tea sets, and pretty bottles?"
"And there's also the jewelry from Sister Liu's side, which is said to have been passed down from her ancestors, including a phoenix coronet and embroidered robe!"
"Didn't I say these two are boys? They don't need to wear phoenix coronet and wedding robes!"
"I meant the jewelry, you should wear those two gold bracelets at least once in a while, right?"
"Oh, I know! You meant..."
As they talked, they carried the person Xue Rui had just brought towards the back mountain of the village. They walked very fast, seemingly on a normal pace.
Lin Leyou saw on the map that the two red dots were moving at a speed of at least 20 to 30 meters per second. So this was just the tip of the iceberg of the villagers' true abilities, wasn't it?
So it seems that if these people really get to the village, they really won't be able to leave alive. Wouldn't that mean the two of them would win by doing nothing?
When Xue Rui returned, the two red dots had stopped moving. It looked like they had been thrown into the thief's pit by the villagers, and they were quite fast.
Lin Leyou, "You're here?"
Xue Rui nodded, then opened the map. "Hmm? We're here already?"
Lin Leyou said, "It looks like this is the right location. I'll go check it out sometime."
Xue Rui stroked his chin. "Thieves from before couldn't get out, but these people are different. They have tools; maybe they really can find a way out..."
Before he could finish speaking, Xue Rui noticed something strange. "Xiao You, look at Jiang Changdong's red dot. It's moving very fast, and it seems to be moving towards the thief's pit."
Lin Leyou leaned closer to the map and exclaimed, "Oh, really! Could it be..."
It couldn't be that Jiang Changdong discovered the thief's pit from a great distance and then used a prop to rush there quickly, so there's only one explanation left.
Lin Leyou laughed heartily, "This Jiang Changdong, could it be that he was caught by some villager who went out? What's going on? He was caught but didn't even use any props to escape?"
After pondering for a moment, Xue Rui said, "Perhaps she's fainted?"
Lin Leyou said, "No matter what, let's send a surveillance sphere over to take a look. Speaking of which, we haven't seen what this thief's pit actually looks like yet."
Soon, the red dot representing Jiang Changdong merged with the two red dots that Xue Rui had given to the villagers earlier. However, perhaps because they were placed in different locations, the red dots were slightly misaligned.
This suggests that the thief's trap might be quite large.
Xue Rui casually tossed out three monitoring balls, which flew quickly toward the three red dots behind the village. However, when the two of them saw the scene on the screen, they were both a little slow to react.
Lin Leyou, “This…”
If the monitoring ball wants to get to the thieves' pit, it has to fly over Xiushan Village, which is the shortest route. That's why what they just saw on the screen was the current situation of Xiushan Village.
The entire Xiushan Village was shrouded in a black fog. From a distance, countless black wisps of mist could be seen rising from the village and flying into the sky, where they merged with the dark clouds.
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