Chapter 506 [(*^▽^*)]
They can come back when it's light, but they don't know if they can appear in the sunlight after it's light. They should be able to, since they're not ordinary ghosts, but vengeful spirits.
After returning to the temple, they looked around and found a room at the back specifically for temporary accommodation. It seemed to be for villagers who came here to stay overnight, which was a good deal for them, but... they still needed to tidy it up a bit.
Lin Leyou said, "These things were all used by the villagers and they were all thrown away."
Xue Rui nodded, then casually waved his hand, and a gust of cold wind blew up, throwing everything inside the room outside. The wind then carried everything away into the nearby ravines.
Lin Leyou looked at the empty house and nodded. "Very good, much cleaner now."
There was only a bed inside, just the bed frame, and a set of table and chairs. Nothing else was there, not even a speck of dust.
Lin Leyou said, "We need to get something to decorate it simply. We'll be staying in this instance for at least ten days, so we can't just leave it like this."
Xue Rui naturally had no objections. They took advantage of the night to search outside for a long time and finally found some plants that they liked. The two of them couldn't quite put their finger on them, but they seemed to be plants that were friendly to vengeful ghosts. They took some very thin branches and casually wove them into a mattress.
After placing the mattress on the bed board, the room finally looked somewhat presentable. The mattress wasn't very well woven, and some small branches were decorated with many long, dark green leaves.
The leaves and branches were still filled with a kind of yin energy, which made it obvious that they were ghosts. However, Lin Leyou and Xue Rui, who had now become vengeful ghosts, did not notice this and simply felt that the plant was very comfortable.
They spent another two hours searching the area within the cordon and found some black flowers, which Lin Leyou placed in a vase with a strange skull painted on it. Of course, the water inside was from a black pool near the temple of the evil god.
He placed the eerie vase containing black flowers on the table, examined it carefully, and nodded with satisfaction. "Not bad, this is the effect I wanted. What do you think, Xiao Rui?"
Xue Rui felt something was off, but he still felt comfortable. "Not bad."
He then placed a palm-sized stone next to the vase. Lin Leyou looked closely and saw that the surface of the stone faintly revealed a ghost face.
Wow! Where did you find this?
Xue Rui: "It was found by the pond where you were fetching water. You didn't see it because you were in a hurry to fetch water."
Lin Leyou nodded, "So that's where it is. This thing is indeed good..."
Xue Rui: "I didn't expect there to be so many of these things near the Evil God Temple. These are relatively clean, but the others are quite dirty... Should we look for more?"
Lin Leyou thought for a moment, "The floor is a bit bare. Let's put some things on it as a rug. That would look better, what do you think?"
Xue Rui nodded, "No problem, let's do it this way."
The two worked for another hour to find the carpet, which they had untied from the thick red rope tied to the tree outside the temple gate.
After collecting all these red ropes, there were just enough to weave a carpet. When the dark red carpet with a hint of black was laid on the floor, the whole room looked much better.
Lin Leyou roughly calculated the time. "It's past midnight now, shall we rest?"
Xue Rui, "Let's rest..."
Although he felt that they, as vengeful ghosts, didn't need to rest at all, it wouldn't be bad to be able to lie down together and rest for a while. Lin Leyou pulled Xue Rui to lie down on the bed.
When Lin Leyou turned over to look at Xue Rui, she noticed that there were a few leaves between them. "These leaves look very comforting."
He casually picked a piece, put it in his mouth, chewed it, and said, "It tastes pretty good."
Xue Rui casually picked a piece and put it in his mouth. "It's really good. I'll go pick some more."
Lin Leyou shook his head, "Let's go tomorrow. I've been busy for so long today, I should rest first."
Xue Rui obediently lay down, but neither of them felt sleepy for a long time. They were both very clear-headed and did not feel tired at all.
Lin Leyou sat up. "Let's go pick some, then sit on a tree near the village and wait for dawn. It'll be interesting to observe their expressions after they discover the dead bodies up close."
Xue Rui blinked. He thought Lin Leyou was quite the actor. "I'm really looking forward to it too."
After making this decision, the two got up and floated through the wall to pick some branches they had found earlier. They looked similar to willow trees, but they were definitely not willow trees.
After breaking off a few branches, they looked at the slender, dark green leaves growing on them, and in the blink of an eye, they flew far away, arriving near the village in no time.
The two wandered around the village for a while, and finally chose to sit in a tree near the foot of the mountain, close to Xu Jian... who was the person they had just killed.
It was still early, so they quietly huddled together, waiting for morning to arrive.
Having finally made it to morning, Lin Leyou couldn't help but mutter, "Will every day be this unbearable from now on?"
He looked eastward, but didn't see the sun; the sky was just slowly getting brighter. It was about six in the morning, time to get up.
Xue Rui said, "I won't be idle every night from now on."
Lin Leyou blinked. "It seems so. Last night was the first day, after all, and nothing happened yet. The players will start to exert their strength from the second day onwards. I wonder how they will look for clues."
Xue Rui said, "If I were on the player's side right now, I would definitely not act alone on the first night. I would first gather a few people to find out the general situation of the whole village, such as how many households there are, where they are located, the surrounding terrain, the range of activities, and so on."
Lin Leyou said, "You truly are a top-tier player. It's a good thing you're on my side. If you were on the players' side, I might have lost."
Xue Rui shook his head, "That's not necessarily true."
Lin Leyou said, "If we have the chance, how about we create our own dungeon and have some real matchups? A custom dungeon where there are no rewards or penalties for winning or losing."
Xue Rui, "Is there such a copy?"
Lin Leyou: "Maybe there is, but our level is too low right now so we can't access it."
Xue Rui: "It seems we also need to step up our game."
Lin Leyou said, "I'll go back and see if there are any better dungeons."
Xue Rui grabbed his hand, "There's no need for that, let's take it one step at a time."
Lin Leyou, "Aren't you worried?"
Xue Rui said, "There's no need to rush. We can just do one dungeon run a day. We have plenty of time. If we're too hasty, it might backfire."
Lin Leyou blinked. "Alright then, we'll do it your way."
After all, in his previous life, until he died, this endless world was still constantly absorbing players, for almost thirty years, without stopping.
I guess I've been a bit too hasty in this life.
Lin Leyou tugged at his hand and pointed to the house where the players lived, "Some players have come out. They probably got up early to gather clues."
Xue Rui looked over there and indeed, some players were coming out. They were in twos and threes, and it was unclear whether they had formed teams before coming in or were temporary teams formed last night.
He then looked at the sky. "It's cloudy. It's probably an additional effect of your talent lock."
Lin Leyou said, "This is good for us. Although we don't know if we can move around in the sun, it's always better for us to be without the sun."
Just as Xue Rui was about to say something, a shrill scream that echoed throughout the entire village came from Xu Jian's house.
And so, the village of Haitang, which was originally awakened by the crowing of roosters, was forcibly awakened today by a woman's scream. All the villagers ran out of their homes with surprised expressions, some even putting on their clothes as they ran.
"What happened? What's wrong?"
"How would I know? It's not my house. Did you recognize whose voice it was?"
"Who could tell? The voice is cracked. But it seems to be coming from over there. Let's go check it out."
"What exactly happened? Has someone in your family died?"
The villagers of Haitang Village all knew each other, and everyone knew each other. It was because of this that they quickly found the family where the accident happened, Xu Jian's family.
Lin Leyou, with his sharp eyes, squinted at the village chief's house. Just as the villagers were all gathering at Xu Jian's house, a villager knocked on the door of the village chief's house.
After the door opened, an elderly man with gray hair, but upright posture and vigorous spirit, came out. "What happened?"
The villagers stammered and couldn't explain clearly, "It seems something happened to Xu Jian's family, but I don't know the specifics yet. In short, it doesn't seem good. Village chief, please go and take a look."
The village chief hurriedly followed the villagers to Xu Jian's house. Of course, all the players also saw the commotion and followed the group to the outside of Xu Jian's house.
None of the villagers seemed to notice anything unusual about them, which suggests that the system had rationalized their identities, and the village NPCs all treated them as members of the same village.
When the village chief arrived, Xu Jian's wife and two children were standing outside the house, their clothes disheveled, all three of them slumped on the ground, their faces filled with terror.
Xu Jian's wife, in particular, was rambling incoherently as if she had been frightened into madness.
The village chief went over and patted Xu Jian's wife on the shoulder, "Xu Jian's wife, what happened? You..."
Xu Jian's wife couldn't hear anything at all, so the village chief turned to look at his children.
"Village chief, my dad... my dad is dead... he died in bed, nailed to the bed with stones!"
The village chief's eyes widened upon hearing this. "What did you say?! Stone nails!"
"That's right, I saw it with my own eyes. If you don't believe me, go and see for yourselves, village chief."
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