Chapter 781 [(*^▽^*)]
Xue Rui nodded, and the two entered the wooden house. They looked around inside but didn't find anything suspicious. However, just to be on the safe side, they still communicated using the black jade ring.
Lin Leyou closed the door. "What do you think of this Golden Snake Village?"
Xue Rui shook his head, "I don't know. Judging from the current situation, there shouldn't be any problems. They've been very friendly to us two distinguished guests, however..."
He couldn't quite put his finger on it; it felt strange, but he didn't feel much of a sense of crisis.
Lin Leyou: "So what do we need to do for the second challenge? We've asked the system many times, but it hasn't responded. It seems we need to find it ourselves."
"There are no main quests, no hints for side quests, no clues for hidden quests, and we don't even know what the rewards or punishments are."
"By the way, you used a substitute item to get back. How did you get there?"
Xue Rui thought for a moment, "It's like going back to the starting point. This time when I went back, most of my memories were still sealed, but there was no problem. After leaving that place, I came to the Pure White Space again."
"Over there, I used the Crimson Lotus to find the familiar Golden Serpent Gate and encountered another player."
Lin Leyou blinked, "Players?"
Xue Rui was quite certain, "That was a player. The other person recognized me and even called out my name."
Lin Leyou: "He's got guts. Does he have that many points? Trying to clear a super-star dungeon? Isn't he afraid of failing... Do you know him?"
Xue Rui shook his head, "I don't know him, he's a complete stranger, I've never seen him before."
Come to think of it, Xue Rui occasionally appears on some programs in the real world, so it's not surprising that people know what he looks like, but that player might not.
Lin Leyou, "You killed him?"
Xue Rui replied matter-of-factly, "Of course I'll kill him. I'm going to open the door to see you."
Lin Leyou didn't feel sorry for the other party. Even if the points he lost in this failure would lead to his complete death, since he had chosen to enter the dungeon, he had to bear the corresponding price.
He took Xue Rui's hand and led her into the bedroom. There was only a bed and a mattress; the other bedding was in a closet. The two of them took out all the sheets, blankets, and pillows from the closet.
"How about we go to the store and take a look later?"
Xue Rui didn't object. "Don't talk nonsense here. The snake people are powerful. I feel like they can hear us even from a distance."
Fortunately, they didn't say it directly.
Lin Leyou had no objection. "Okay, from now on, just tell them unimportant things."
Xue Rui: "We shouldn't have anything to do for the next period of time."
Lin Leyou, “What… Oh right, I told you, we were able to get to the village so quickly because we used the Red Lotus, but the others weren’t so lucky, so they have to wait… for several months.”
Xue Rui, "Did the snake man say that?"
"Yes, that's what he said. In the past, it would take several months for someone to come."
Xue Rui said, "This time they might not be able to wait for many people."
Lin Leyou was puzzled, but then quickly remembered, "Those doors that were set ablaze by the Crimson Lotus were where other residents and players were clearing levels, so they were set on fire..."
Xue Rui: "Those who had their doors set on fire must have either died or failed and withdrawn."
Lin Leyou: "Is it really that simple? If so, after our two expeditions, burning down countless gates, will they all be burned down?"
Xue Rui said, "If that's the case, then the final number of people will be very small."
Lin Leyou was somewhat uncertain. After thinking for a moment, he asked the system, "System, if the gate is burned down by the Red Lotus, will the players and residents inside also die?"
The system doesn't know if it will answer this question. Ever since the Super Star Dungeon came, the system has been playing dead, but it hasn't completely stopped, and it will occasionally pick out some questions to answer.
Just like now...
"System notification: The gate has been burned down. The residents and players inside will move to a different location to continue the game."
After receiving the answer, Lin Leyou looked at Xue Rui and asked, "Did you ask?"
Xue Rui nodded, "I didn't expect it to be like this, but even so, we don't need to worry."
Lin Leyou glanced at the golden snake bracelet on his wrist. "When I was sealing my memories, it seemed like something was helping me the whole time. Do you think it could be this little thing?"
Xue Rui said, "I feel the same way. I always feel that world is fake, and many NPCs' acting skills are not up to par. Maybe it's the Golden Snake Bracelet that makes us see the reality."
Lin Leyou breathed a sigh of relief, "Although it's easier now, this golden snake bracelet has a fatal flaw."
To open that door, one person must die, and those who obtain the same key will be paired together. However, those who obtain the same key are probably very close friends, which is a fatal and insidious flaw.
If Xue Rui hadn't had a substitute puppet, he would probably be the only one here right now.
That's right. If it weren't for that puppet prop, Lin Leyou would have killed him before Xue Rui could even react, even if Xue Rui would be furious with him.
Since they still have to wait for all the other players and residents to come out from the first level, they can relax a little now, take a look at everything in the house, and rearrange everything according to their habits.
Later, I discovered that the wooden house had very few things inside. If I needed anything, I would have to go to the shop at the entrance of the village to buy it. I had only passed by before and didn't know if there was anything inside that humans would use.
Lin Leyou glanced at the sky outside. "It's afternoon. Let's go to the store first and buy the necessities. We can talk about the rest tomorrow."
Xue Rui looked outside. "Let's go."
The two were traveling together when they discovered that the door was unlocked when they were closing it. This meant that the door could only be closed, but anyone could open it and go in.
Could it be that all the houses in the village are like this? That's why the snake man told them not to enter other people's houses when he left.
Lin Leyou casually tossed a mechanical spider into the wooden house, and the little spider quickly disappeared into the shadows.
"Although...but..."
One should always be wary of others, not to mention that the villagers here are not even human.
Xue Rui took his hand and said, "Let's go, we won't have enough time later."
The two then closed the door and headed towards the shop at the village entrance. Along the way, they could see some snake people wandering the country roads, and of course, they would pass by the statue square they had just passed.
"Huh?" Lin Leyou suddenly paused.
Xue Rui also looked over.
At this moment, they discovered that in the two cells that were just skeletons when they arrived, which were perched atop tall logs, one of them contained an unconscious person.
He is still breathing, so he must be unconscious.
Both of them were shocked, not because they were shocked that there was someone in the cell, but because they were shocked that the wooden hut they lived in had a view of the entire square, yet they had not noticed it for so long!
Therefore, it is clear that the snake people's claim that all their people are incredibly powerful is not an exaggeration, and it is understandable that people often try to abduct young snake people.
"Gentlemen, after looking around here for so long, what are your thoughts?"
Lin Leyou looked down and saw that the snake-man did not appear old from his appearance, but he could tell from his voice that he was quite old.
"Hello, we were wondering if any of the shops here have anything we need."
The elderly snake-man was taken aback for a moment, "Ah? Oh... really? Yes, yes, we have everything, we have everything you need, go and take a look."
"Then we'll be going now."
They seemed to have no interest in the humans in the prison. Why were they just watching them?
The old snake-man didn't understand, but he could still sense it. They really didn't care about the thieves in the prison, and that wasn't an act. So, he wondered when they were sent in.
"Hehe." He chuckled softly, then slithered to a nearby tree, slowly climbed up, and concealed himself among the dense foliage.
At this moment, Lin Leyou and his companion arrived outside the shop at the entrance of the village. Looking through the door and the glass on the side, they found that there were indeed many food items for humans inside.
The shop owner was sitting cross-legged on a pillar at the entrance—yes, cross-legged on it. Because he was in human form, he was holding the pillar with both arms, which looked quite strange.
But they didn't care about that. They walked through the gate, entered the store, and each of them grabbed a basket and started shopping. They bought everything they needed, such as toothbrushes, cups, towels, and washbasins.
Of course, they also bought some food at the end, but there were no hot meals in the store, only bread and the like. However, they found a fresh food section further back.
They were surprised, but after carefully examining the fresh produce and finding that there was nothing wrong with it, they put all the bread they had put in the basket back and replaced it with pots, pans, and other ingredients.
You can also spend money at the shops here. They have tons of money in their accounts, and they've been having daily lotteries for years, so their money balance has skyrocketed.
The money they spend here is just a tiny fraction of what they could possibly spend, and they don't care at all.
I bought too many things, and I couldn't carry them all in my backpack, so I had to go back first and come back later. Luckily, the shop owner who had just finished paying was very easy to talk to.
"No problem, leave it here for now, you can come and get it later. With me watching over it, no one will dare to touch it."
The store manager spoke in a rough voice, but he had a kind of honest and simple air about him.
Lin Leyou and his group took half of the items first. As they passed the statue square, the man who had been keeping company with the unmoved corpse in the cell above the log had awakened.
He trembled with fear at the sight of the skeletons in the cell, and soon saw Xue Rui and his companion carrying something as they passed by in the square in a corner of his cell.
"Hey! You two brothers, help me! Hurry... help me..."
He looked carefully and saw that there wasn't a single snake-man around, making it a good time to rescue him. But whether it was his imagination or not, his two brothers seemed not to have heard him...
No, it's not that they couldn't hear it, it's that they completely ignored it! They walked straight across the square and into the village.
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