Chapter 515 [(*^▽^*)]
As dawn broke, the villagers of Haitang Village were already busy preparing for Chen Jian's funeral. While many were getting to work, someone suddenly noticed that the village chief was missing.
"Hey, have you seen the village chief? Didn't he say yesterday that he was coming to Chen Jian's house today?"
"Could he have overslept? After all, the village chief is getting old. Let's not disturb him. He'll come when he wakes up. It's not like we need the village chief to be here now."
"That's true, but let's ask anyway..."
No sooner had the words been spoken than the village chief's children passed by. Everyone hurriedly greeted them and asked where the village chief had gone, but the passersby seemed not to hear them and walked straight out of the village.
The villagers, sensing something was wrong, followed the trail and, some distance from the village entrance, saw what appeared to be something hanging on the large tree at the village entrance.
"What's that hanging up there? A black strip of cloth?"
"Let's go check it out right away."
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a person!
"Ah...someone's dead! Someone's dead!"
"My God, isn't that the village chief? What's he doing here? The village chief, he..."
Soon, the villagers who were still in the village heard the news and rushed to the village entrance, where they saw the village chief hanging from a tree.
"There were no footprints or anything to step on, this must have been..."
"There's a ghost! There must be a ghost! Fu Qingqiu is back! Fu Qingqiu is back!"
"No, no, I have to run, I have to leave here, none of you can stop me, I have to leave now."
"Hey, wait for me! I'm leaving too!"
As a result, many people rushed out, but they soon realized that they had run for a long time but had not gone very far. Some of the hesitant people even became frightened after seeing this.
Everyone started rushing out, but unfortunately, no matter how hard they ran, they couldn't leave the village and could only keep going in circles on the edge.
For the entire morning, they were deceiving themselves, until after noon when they collapsed to the ground, exhausted. The area not far from the village entrance was filled with villagers lying there.
Of course, there were other players watching the show not far away, and even further away, on the top of a mountain, Lin Leyou and Xue Rui were also watching the excitement.
"I'm too weak now. I knew I couldn't escape."
Xue Rui, "How many will you kill tonight?"
Lin Leyou said, "We'll see. So far, we've only killed two, which is still quite slow. We need to kill at least ten tonight."
Xue Rui: "Okay, do we need to confirm the candidates first?"
Lin Leyou: "It's okay, I'll pick whatever I want tonight."
Since everyone is going to be killed anyway, except for Qin Xingyu who will be left until the end, all the remaining villagers will die, without exception, including the players.
Meanwhile, the remaining 95 players huddled together, watching the villagers lying on the ground, unwilling to get up.
"They may not believe it yet."
"Will they join forces to fight the vengeful ghost now?"
"What will they use to fight off the vengeful ghost?"
"Gather them together so it'll be easier for us to protect them. Don't you want the 500,000 points for the side quest?"
How could they not want it? Of course they wanted it, but how could they persuade these villagers to willingly move into their houses to escape the vengeful ghost's assassination attempt?
"Of course I want to, do you have any good ideas?"
"Just say that our ten houses have talismans on them so that evil spirits can't get close."
"What if they ask us for these talismans? Will you give them to them or not?"
"Of course not, how can we give it to so many households?"
After all, the points for a single talisman aren't much, but a large number of them can be overwhelming.
"If that's the case, then let them wait to die? I still really want the points from the side quest."
"Can we all think of a solution?"
"It's probably impossible to keep the 500,000 points."
"There's still a chance, right? We're villagers too. Only two villagers have died so far, and there are still 606 people in the village. If we can ensure that more than 500 people survive, we can get 500,000 points."
"Huh? Are we players counted in the player count?"
"Of course, when we first entered the instance, the system also said that we were placed in this Begonia Village as villagers. Although we are players, our identity in this instance is that of villagers."
"That's good... that's good. I really thought that to get the highest score in the side quest, I had to make sure that no more than eight villagers died."
"In that case, we don't need to do anything these next two days. We just need to wait until these villagers realize that staying in their own homes will definitely lead to trouble before we step forward. That way, we can have whatever we want."
"The only problem now is that ten small houses simply cannot accommodate so many villagers. If we calculate based on a minimum of five hundred people, each house would need to hold fifty people. Do you think that's feasible?"
The house is big enough for ten people, but it's quite difficult to cram fifty people in at once.
"Shall we give it a try now?"
Anyway, they still have 95 players, so it doesn't matter if they use 50 people to test it.
The results of the trial, though somewhat unexpected, proved to be feasible. Fifty people could be crammed into a house, which meant very little space for movement, but at least it ensured their survival.
Lin Leyou and Xue Rui had no idea what the players were discussing, but whatever they were saying wouldn't affect what they were about to do.
Xue Rui: "It's daytime now, but it's dark. Should we do something?"
Lin Leyou said, "Let's talk about it after they all go home."
Xue Rui: "Okay."
As expected, after running around all morning without any results, the exhausted villagers were now all hungry, their stomachs growling. After all, they hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch, and some of the older villagers were so hungry they were dizzy.
Even if they were scared and terrified, they still had to eat. All the villagers helped each other leave the village entrance. Although they were still reluctant to leave the road leading out of the village, they still had to walk back into the village.
Of course, they didn't give up. After returning home and having a hearty meal, each household started walking in different directions, trying to bypass the village entrance and leave the village.
Unfortunately, there was no way out by taking a detour. These villagers never considered going in the opposite direction from the village entrance, perhaps into the deep mountains where there might be a glimmer of hope, but they dared not. After all, going in the opposite direction led to the Mountain God Temple, where Fu Qingqiu had been sent and nailed to a stone coffin, where he starved to death...
Going that way is practically suicide, isn't it?
After a busy day, it was already evening when the villagers returned to their homes, their faces filled with fear and reluctance. Of course, some of the more timid families squeezed together in groups of two or three, just to feel safer at night.
However, this is not a problem that can be solved by having more people. He and Xue Rui are two fierce ghosts, and no matter how many people come, they are no match for them, unless there are players nearby using props.
Lin Leyou said, "It's getting dark. Let's get started, beginning with the houses on the edge of the village."
Xue Rui: "Players are forming teams and moving around in the village."
Looking into the distance, Lin Leyou saw that there were indeed teams of players, and even teams of ten. There were eight teams in total moving around the village, but the place they were going to was quite far away from these players.
He looked away and pointed to the house furthest from the players. "Let's start with this one."
Xue Rui naturally did not object. After they arrived at the house, they killed all five people who were huddled together in the master bedroom out of fear. Since they were insignificant, marginal villagers, they did not cause any trouble.
While killing people, Lin Leyou didn't do much, but after killing them, he thought for a moment and then splattered the blood on the wall, using the bloodstains to form the character for "death".
Xue Rui: "It's pretty scary."
Lin Leyou smirked, "If this were made into a movie, it might be scarier than other horror films?"
Xue Rui: "It would indeed be more frightening."
After all, even the most realistic movies are still fake, but what they're doing now, no matter how fake it is, is real. Of course, these are all villagers/NPCs, not real people.
Lin Leyou said, "Let's go, let's kill a lot more tonight, this one family alone isn't enough."
They then bypassed the players' groups and began killing villagers on the outskirts of the village. In just one hour, they had killed sixteen villagers.
Xue Rui, "Is that enough?"
Lin Leyou nodded, "Yes, that's about it. What I didn't expect is that no one has taken the village chief's body down yet. He's really not popular."
The two looked towards the big tree at the village entrance. There was still a dark figure hanging in the tree. It was none other than the village chief. Lin Leyou suddenly felt a pang of regret, "If I had known, I wouldn't have killed the village chief so soon."
Xue Rui, "Save it for last?"
Lin Leyou: "Yes, leaving it for last seems better that way."
Xue Rui, “…this…”
Lin Leyou, "Hmm?"
Xue Rui: "Is this village chief also played by someone like you? It's like a copy of the Happy Community game."
Lin Leyou: "Maybe."
Xue Rui, "Hmm?"
Lin Leyou: "I don't know about that, but I can only say... there are definitely NPCs that have no independent consciousness and only know how to repeat dungeons, just like the Clearwater Town dungeon..."
Xue Rui thought of Qingshui Town from a long time ago, "The town mayor there seemed to be..."
Lin Leyou said, "Alright, stop thinking about it. Let's go and see if we can find any lone players to kill. We were able to kill five players in the Evil God Temple before, which was probably just because we were lucky. They didn't have time to react or even use their powerful weapons."
This statement seemed reasonable, but Xue Rui shook his head. "No, not all players who can enter A-level difficulty dungeons have powerful items. Apart from catching them off guard at the beginning, the remaining two players had enough time to react, but unfortunately... their items were not worth mentioning."
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