Chapter 542 [(*^▽^*)]
If there's anything fishy going on over there, we can ask Guo Xia and the other person to help destroy the ancestral hall. After all, they clearly remember the existence of the ancestral hall, and it was quite important, but they just couldn't recall it before.
Mingming could tell that this ancestral hall was unusual just by thinking about it.
Lin Leyou said, "Something's not right. This ancestral hall is very special. Why didn't the villagers think of going to the ancestral hall after so many villagers died or were injured? Instead, they stayed in the village and sought the protection of the players?"
Xue Rui said, "We probably need to find out the reason for this."
Lin Leyou looked towards the ancestral hall from afar. Rong Yuwen and his men had already approached the ancestral hall. They looked at the tightly closed gate of the ancestral hall and seemed somewhat hesitant.
However, Lin Leyou eventually went up and knocked on the door. From a distance, he saw the village chief's family inside the ancestral hall hear the knocking and look towards the gate, but they did not make a sound or open the door.
He quickly looked away and continued doing his own thing, ignoring the people outside.
Lin Leyou: "Does the village chief's family know that the people outside are players?"
Xue Rui said, "They probably didn't know because they didn't open the door... But the person who knocked and spoke was Rong Yuwen, so they probably recognized the voice. After all, the person who led the team and asked them where the stone coffin was was Rong Yuwen."
Lin Leyou nodded, "Let's take another look..."
Rong Yuwen knocked on the door, but there was no response. He knocked again. There must be someone inside; they could hear the noise coming from inside. There was definitely someone there.
Why are there people but no response to them?
Should we barge in and take a look?
Rong Yuwen raised his hand to stop them, "No need, there's no need for that. This ancestral hall is obviously not simple. Since they dare to stay here, they must be confident that there are no evil spirits coming here to find them."
Everyone then calmed down. "So, this ancestral hall can protect the villagers?"
"I don't know, but... it's better not to act rashly before we understand the situation of the ancestral hall. If there are any taboos, we might not die at the hands of the BOSS, but we might be defeated by these small things."
Everyone nodded in agreement. They weren't fools; even if they hadn't realized it at first, they should understand now.
"Should we keep knocking?"
Rong Yuwen knocked on the door again and said, "Hello, I know you're inside. We've come to discuss something with you. Please open the door."
The village chief's family is still sitting and resting inside, while a few others are cleaning with brooms and rags. Apart from looking at the gate at the beginning, they haven't reacted at all.
It was as if they had no idea there were people outside. This scene made Lin Leyou and the other person in the distance feel very strange.
Rong Yuwen was certain he heard the sound of a broom sweeping inside. He continued to knock on the door and said a few more words, but there was still no response.
He tried to push the door, but it was tightly shut and wouldn't budge even after two attempts.
"Should we try using a VPN?"
Rong Yuwen raised his hand, "Don't go yet, let's throw a puppet in first and see, I have a feeling there's something strange inside."
If the village chief's family harbors resentment towards them, they will most likely say a few words of gossip, then leave them standing outside, or remain silent and hide inside until they leave before doing anything.
But none of that happened. The people inside were cleaning normally, making no attempt to conceal their movements, and ignoring his knocking and talking.
Although it might be because they harbored resentment and deliberately ignored them, it was mostly strange.
Lin Leyou saw several players take out dolls and throw them inside, but the dolls flew out of the wall the next second after being thrown over it and landed in front of the players.
Rong Yuwen was taken aback when she saw it. "Did you see anything through the dolls?"
"I didn't see anything. The moment the doll was thrown over the wall, the view returned to looking outwards, and I couldn't see anything inside."
"Me too, I didn't see anything."
“I didn’t see it either, it’s really strange… What’s going on inside this ancestral hall?”
"Should we try kicking down the gate? Or perhaps we could get other villagers to try?"
"Let's forget about kicking down the door. If we damage the ancestral hall, something bad might happen. I still support asking other villagers to come in. Maybe we can get in. We can go in and try."
Lin Leyou stared intently at that spot, sensing that something was amiss.
Xue Rui frowned slightly. "Xiao You, I have a very ominous feeling."
Lin Leyou said, "I also have... but it's not our own premonition, it's the premonition of being a vengeful ghost that there's something very hostile to us in the ancestral hall."
Xue Rui: "What exactly is this thing... Could it be another way for players to complete the game?"
Lin Leyou said, "It's possible. Let's leave first, and when it gets tonight, we'll have one of our underlings come over and scout it out."
Xue Rui said, "We can't even get close, and your henchmen are probably in trouble too."
Lin Leyou said, "We still have to give it a try."
Xue Rui thought, "I'd rather possess a villager and try it out here."
Lin Leyou raised an eyebrow. "Hey Xiao Rui, have you forgotten that your possession talent only lasts for five minutes? If you find a villager in the village to possess, five minutes won't even be enough for you to walk from the village to the ancestral hall."
Xue Rui said, "We stayed a little further away. At first, we didn't feel anything, but the longer we stayed here, the more obvious that ominous feeling became."
Lin Leyou clearly sensed something was amiss, "Then let's drift a little further away."
And so they drifted far away, until they were probably no longer aware of it, when they found themselves on the edge of the mountain, near the edge of the village.
"Phew... This ancestral hall is really something, but whether it's real or fake still needs to be investigated."
Xue Rui, "Fake?"
Lin Leyou said, “This ancestral hall doesn’t seem to have anything moving inside. Perhaps it’s enshrined with something that can scare away ghosts, causing them to instinctively fear and loathe it, thus keeping them away from this area. But in reality, this object is just an inanimate object and can’t really harm us.”
Xue Rui, "Really?"
Lin Leyou looked at him and said, "How would I know? I'm just guessing."
Xue Rui, “…”
He spoke so seriously, as if it were true, Xue Rui sighed inwardly.
"It's still possible."
Lin Leyou's expression was a little off. "But maybe that's not the case. There's something inside this ancestral hall."
Xue Rui, "What do you think it's most likely to be?"
Lin Leyou's lips twitched. "There are only two possibilities. The first is that some of the elders in this village have already died. The second is... didn't we find any evil gods in the evil god temple we're in?"
Xue Rui, "You suspect that there is an evil god in this ancestral hall?"
Lin Leyou nodded, "This is what I think. If the people who died in the village have become ghosts, they are definitely no match for us. After all, we are vengeful ghosts, and there are two of us."
Xue Rui looked at him, "So your opinion leans more towards the second one?"
Lin Leyou: "Right, what about you? Do you think it's a villager or an evil god?"
Xue Rui: "I also think it's an evil god, but... if an evil god really exists, would he side with the villagers or...?"
Lin Leyou frowned. "I think the evil god will definitely not stand on our side. After all, to him, we are food offered to him by the village, while the living villagers are his subjects or his reserve food."
Xue Rui: "This situation is not good. If it's an evil god..."
Lin Leyou said, "Let's wait and see. Rong Yuwen and his group have started making moves again."
After the dolls were thrown out, the players realized that this shrine was not a place for them to run wild. Since they couldn't win, they decided to try a gentler approach.
Rong Yuwen took out a surveillance device that he had kept in his backpack and hadn't used before. It could fly, and it was obviously a purple-grade surveillance device.
Instead of letting the flying surveillance device fly directly over the wall into the inside, he flew it from the outside to a higher place to see if it could see inside from above.
They thought they couldn't see it, but the reality was quite different. They hadn't crossed the wall, but they could see inside!
He was holding a palm-sized device, about the size of a mobile phone, with the screen showing footage captured by a surveillance device. "I can see the village chief's family; they're inside."
Rong Yuwen said, "It's strange. The village chief's family acted as if it were their own home. They rested when they were supposed to and cleaned when they were supposed to."
"The key is how to meet with them."
Rong Yuwen said, "Let's go knock on the door again and see."
They followed him to the gate again. While knocking, they carefully observed the person inside, but no matter how long they knocked, the person inside did not respond, as if they could not hear it at all.
Lin Leyou watched this scene and thought, "The village chief's family must be able to hear it, or at least sense it."
Xue Rui, "Pretending not to hear, is there any taboo?"
Lin Leyou continued to observe the situation over there. Since the two of them were there, they missed what was happening in the village, since some people had already discovered that the village chief's family could not be found in the village.
The villagers who didn't know the reason why they were kicked out of the player's safe house last night now know, and many of them, with their short tempers, are immediately going to confront the village chief and his family.
But they searched the village in different places, but to their surprise, they couldn't find anyone at all.
Now that they had eaten their fill, the villagers, who were not afraid of ghosts even during the day, gathered together to discuss where to find the village chief's family.
"It's not in the village; we've searched everywhere."
“We’ve also checked their house. It’s full of bloody corpses and chunks of flesh. They definitely won’t go back to live there. We’ve also searched other houses in the village and found many corpses, as well as empty houses.”
"So, you didn't see them?"
"No, there isn't any. It must have hidden somewhere else."
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