Chapter 545 [(*^▽^*)]
"You two are quite clever."
The voice, both strange and familiar, echoed in their ears, as if ethereal and somewhat unreal.
A light mist rose around, but because of the overcast sky and the fact that it was morning, although there was some light, it was still quite dark. So this little bit of mist could only roughly obscure the view of people in the distance, and had no other use.
Lin Leyou's figure was indistinct and looked somewhat unreal, but the two of them knew that the BOSS had actually come in person.
“Fu Qingqiu…”
Lin Leyou nodded, "It's me."
Guo Xia, "What do you plan to do now?"
Lin Leyou said, "I need you to try and see if you can destroy these huts."
Destroy the player's cabin!
Guo Xia: "Of course, that's no problem. As long as this little house is kept, it will be a huge obstacle for us."
Lin Leyou said, "Go ahead and do your thing. It's best if you don't get caught. But if you do get caught, it's okay. I'm here, and I'll make sure you're safe."
Guo Chengzheng: "No problem. Even if we're weak, we can still destroy a few houses."
Guo Xia: "Don't worry, leave this to us. By the way..."
Fu Qingqiu: "Just say what you need to say."
Guo Xia: "I wanted to ask... does the ancestral hall need our help?"
Lin Leyou looked at them carefully, "Not for now, you just need to focus on your work here."
Guo Xia nodded, and Lin Leyou quickly disappeared, the thin mist around them also dissipating as if he had never been there.
After a while, they opened the props in their hands and found that there was no reaction. The BOSS had already left and gone far away.
Guo Chengzheng finally breathed a sigh of relief. "I was so scared! I was covered in cold sweat. When he was staring at us, I thought I was going to freeze to death."
It was truly cold, not the kind of cold that comes from a drop in temperature, but a cold that penetrates to the bone and touches the soul. They had just used all the endurance they had ever had to keep from trembling in front of Fu Qingqiu.
It wasn't fear, but the cold.
Guo Xia sighed, "It is indeed cold, but what do you plan to do?"
Guo Chengzheng laughed and said, "What else can we do? Isn't it simple? Just burn it."
Guo Xia hesitated for a moment, "It can't be that simple, can it?"
Guo Chengzheng: "Whether it works or not, we'll find out by trying."
Guo Xia: "How do we test it? If we're discovered by accident, we won't be able to stay among the players anymore, and it will also be discovered that players can betray us."
Guo Chengzheng: "It's alright, we have prop dolls, we can just let the dolls set the fire."
Guo Xia: "What time? Is it day or night?"
Guo Chengzheng said, "I don't think the boss would entrust such a matter to us so easily. He might do something else to attract our attention, and that will be our opportunity."
Guo Xia smiled slightly, "That's what I think too."
He was genuinely afraid that Guo Chengzheng would act too impulsively and rush out to fight, thus exposing his identity for nothing and gaining nothing. That would be quite amusing.
Lin Leyou and his group were indeed planning to make a fuss in the village.
He looked up at the sky from a distant rooftop and asked, "Have you noticed that the daytime light is getting dimmer every day within the area I've sealed off?"
Xue Rui nodded, "That's true... It seems that stalling for time is actually to our advantage."
Lin Leyou said, "Let's go. Let's make some noise in the village to attract the players' attention and create some opportunities for them."
Xue Rui, "Which one to choose?"
Lin Leyou casually pointed, "How about that one?"
That house wasn't too close to the player's hut, but it wasn't far either. If the player was drawn there, it could indeed create an opportunity for Guo Xia and his group. It all depended on whether they could seize the opportunity.
Of course, neither of them would take action themselves; instead, they would send Lin Leyou's four henchmen down.
Rong Yuwen and his group had installed surveillance equipment throughout most of the village. The equipment for detecting ghosts was only available near the hut, and they both knew this.
There are no tools to detect ghosts here; you just need to keep them hidden.
This family looks very ordinary; there are eight people in the family. The four elderly people are still alive, and there are two sons. The eldest son is married with a wife and a child, while the younger son is not yet married.
Xue Rui said, "I have memories related to this family."
Lin Leyou blinked. "I don't have many memories about them. Can you tell me the specifics?"
Xue Rui said, "Zhong Wuyan had some contact with the second son of this family when he was a child, about ten years ago... We didn't get along very well, and because their youngest son disliked me, the whole family strongly supported offering me to the evil god."
Lin Leyou, "So that's how it is..."
Xue Rui said, “The whole village seems to be a good place, with every household being a simple and honest villager. But in reality, the villagers in this village have mental problems, or rather, their values are very strange.”
"It's just that they usually disguise themselves very well, so outsiders don't know."
Lin Leyou said, "This kind of village is already rotten at its core. There is no need to save it. Killing them all is the best future for this village."
After all, the girls in the village are all married into the family, while the men are all married off. This is to prevent the village custom from spreading. And after the children are all married, the village will have more people and many children.
With more people, there are more people to choose from to sacrifice to the evil god. If there are many villagers who are rejected by the villagers, one can be chosen from among them, so there is a lot of freedom.
Lin Leyou said, "After more than 800 years, Haitang Village has only a few hundred people left. It's really unbelievable."
Xue Rui: "It seems that the villagers of Haitang Village always die from various accidents. Of course, I haven't investigated, so I'm not very clear about it."
Lin Leyou's lips curled into a sarcastic smile. "Are you kidding me? They worship an evil god. Evil gods are always greedy. How can one person's food sustenance be enough for ten years!"
Xue Rui said, "Those villagers who died in various accidents must have been deliberately killed by an evil god to provide him with a meal."
Lin Leyou said, "Moreover, the evil god will not kill too many villagers. He will only control the number of people in the village within a certain range, so that he can have a continuous supply of food and will not be discovered."
"After all, apart from this incident, everyone else in the village is healthy and lives to old age, enjoying family life without major or minor illnesses or natural or man-made disasters. The villagers' income has always been stable; they are not rich, but they are quite well-off."
"In this way, even if someone suspects that the villagers who died in accidents may be related to evil gods, they will not expose it, because who knows if exposing it will bring disaster to the village."
Lin Leyou said, "Perhaps some of the villagers who were sacrificed will become vengeful ghosts and come back to seek revenge. The villagers had actually anticipated this, but they didn't know exactly when it would happen, so they held onto a glimmer of hope. For example, they thought to themselves, 'It's definitely not while I'm still alive. After I die, what happens to the village is none of my business.'"
Xue Rui, "And now the village chief's family is in the ancestral hall..."
Lin Leyou said, "It's definitely not just us who have become vengeful ghosts. There are definitely villagers in the ancestral hall who died in accidents and became ghosts, just like you said. They dare not stay in the village, dare not go to the evil god temple, and will not leave the village to become wandering ghosts. So the only choice left for them is... the ancestral hall."
"After all, evil gods come to the village from time to time to have extra food, and the evil god temple is the evil god's lair. They can only hide in the ancestral hall. As long as they are in the ancestral hall, they can avoid the evil gods."
Xue Rui, "Has the evil god left the village now?"
Lin Leyou looked in the direction of the ancestral hall. "We did not find the evil god within the sealed-off area, but this sealed-off area only allows entry and not exit. In other words, if the evil god wants to come back, it can definitely come in."
Xue Rui said, "Perhaps they found a better breeding ground, so they abandoned Haitang Village. Otherwise... we wouldn't be here today."
It's somewhat plausible that villagers who died in accidents would become ghosts and hide away, but it's a bit hard to believe that someone sent to a temple of evil spirits and fed to the evil spirits could also become a vengeful ghost.
The fact that the evil god needs extra food from time to time indicates that it has a large appetite and will never let go of food that is offered to it. The only plausible explanation is that the evil god has left.
Moreover, he left at least ten years ago, since Zhong Wuyan has become a vengeful ghost.
Lin Leyou felt something was strange. "If they really left, didn't the ghosts at the ancestral hall notice?"
Xue Rui said, "Let's go to the ancestral hall. We'll probably only be able to find out the answers to all our questions once we're inside."
Lin Leyou: "In my memory, Fu Qingqiu never went to the ancestral hall once. What about you?"
Xue Rui frowned and shook his head. "Zhong Wuyan hasn't been there either."
Lin Leyou said, "Alright, let's settle the player cabin issue first, then we can talk about other things."
Under Lin Leyou's command, the four henchmen flew swiftly towards the house in front of them. They passed through the wall and entered, after which the lights inside the house went out.
The sky grew increasingly dark, and even during the day, one had to turn on the lights to see clearly inside the house. Come to think of it, it was rather unbelievable that even though he had sealed off Haitang Village, there was still water and electricity available.
Lin Leyou originally planned to cut off the water and electricity to the village, but now he thinks it's unnecessary. Anyway, he's going to die soon, and these villagers have no way to deal with ghosts.
Lin Leyou watched as the family frantically checked if there was a problem with the power switch, but then he discovered that one of them had disappeared.
Lin Leyou's intention was to incite a disturbance, so he didn't kill the entire family. Instead, he controlled his four henchmen to chase and injure them as much as possible.
The missing person quickly ran downstairs from upstairs, screaming and pounding. It was clear that he was terrified, his face contorted in extreme fear.
"What's wrong? What happened? What exactly happened?"
"Why is there a power outage?"
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