Chapter 135: The Ghost Wife of Infinite Player
"Then there was the news we heard about the forced bride."
Xie Qing told everyone the news he had just heard from Shi Tou and looked at Zhang San.
Zhang San nodded and recounted what he had just discovered. Zhang Yunzhao repeated everything Uncle Guo said word for word.
"Third brother, this is probably our retribution."
"But many people are innocent. If I could be like you..."
"If you can, try to run outside. We can't get out. No matter how far we drive, we will still return to the road leading into the village."
Zhang Yunzhao: "Then Uncle Guo told the man to take care of himself."
Liu Yue: "That is to say, after this strange thing happened, the villagers wanted to run away, but no matter how hard they tried, they would still come back. But Uncle Guo asked this man to try. Does this mean that the Boss only punishes those who are guilty?"
Liu Yue immediately denied what he said, "No, he said many people are innocent. I am really confused by so much information."
Lin Zhi: "This shows that he is very special."
Zhang Yunzhao: "Maybe he is special to the boss."
The two voices overlapped slightly. Zhang Yunzhao's eyes fell on Lin Zhi's face, and he looked away embarrassedly.
Xie Qing:?
If he was not mistaken, this guy was just shy of his wife, right?
I'm not your friend, just look at it, why are you shy? Does it make you look innocent?
"There is no doubt that this third brother is the person that Dong Yuan, who was sacrificed nine years ago, loved. Is his hand intact in the photo?"
Xie Qing took a step forward, slightly blocking Lin Zhi, and looked at Zhang Yunzhao.
Zhang Yunzhao nodded: "He is fine, so he was tortured because the villagers found out that he fell in love with Hai Ji."
"Not necessarily," Lin Zhi frowned slightly, "If that's the case, I don't think he would survive. Dong Yuan would care about her lover's life and wouldn't struggle."
"Uncle Guo said that if he could be like him, it means that he did not choose to stand idly by like Uncle Guo, he took action, but judging from the result, he was stopped."
"The thing that he didn't stand by and watch could be Dong Yuan's matter, or it could be something else. I tend to think it was something else. If he was hurt in the Dong Yuan incident, I don't think it should be this kind of wound."
"The answer is usually hidden in the mystery. The wounds on his tongue and hands are very strange. Most people would not choose this method of torture. There is only one possibility, to make him unable to speak and unable to write."
"When this incident is compared to Dong Yuan's case, a contradiction arises."
Lin Zhi's voice slowly sorted out the things.
The tangled ball of yarn was sorted out, and everyone nodded, thinking it made sense.
Xie Qing's eyes lit up slightly, Lin Zhi thought the same thing as him.
Xie Qing: "Timeline, as long as we figure out the timeline, we can figure out a lot of things."
"Sixty years ago, Queen Hai appeared, and Chen A Lian married as the first Queen Hai. Nine years ago, Dong Yuan was forced to marry. But the strange thing happened recently. What opportunity led to the birth of the boss?"
"From the clues we have collected so far, Boss is related to Chen Alian and Dong Yuan. It may not be Hai Niangniang. It is more like a collection of vengeful spirits of brides. The target of her vengeance is the man who sleeps with the woman. We can speculate on her encounter."
Liu Yue clenched his fist: "That so-called Queen Hai might be a man!"
After hearing what Lin Zhi and Xie Qing said, everyone seemed to understand something, but the answer was still shrouded in a thin layer of fog.
"It's hard to say. After all, there are unknown monsters involved."
Xie Qing used to be a staunch materialist, but now that he's here, and he even has a ghost wife, nothing is impossible.
Xie Qing: "Chen Alian, Dong Yuan, the third brother, Uncle Guo, the old lady, the villagers who are not fishermen, and the family of Chen Alian's deceased brother. There must be something that connects them. As long as we know this thing, we can know the answer to the level."
Zhang San: "Which side should we search now? Or should we split up?"
"Let's go find ..."
Xie Qing looked to the left, then to the right, and his sight finally fell on one place.
Two minutes later, everyone appeared at Uncle Guo's door.
The door that they had closed before they left had been opened. Uncle Guo was standing in the courtyard, hanging up the fishing net that he had put away last night. He touched the hand-woven fishing net, as if he was lost in a memory.
Uncle Guo told the man to take care. Such closing remarks usually mean that he will not meet that person again, like a farewell.
Zhang San: "Uncle Guo, we just walked around the entrance of the village and found that there are very few people living there. Could it be that most of the people who got into trouble live there?"
Uncle Guo touched the fishing net and whispered, "No, there were few people living in the area at the entrance of the village. They didn't believe that Hai Niangniang was driven to live there, far away from the ancestral hall. Later, most of those people chose to leave the village, and only a few people still lived there."
Xie Qing: "Did the man who couldn't speak become like that because he didn't believe in Lady Hai?"
Uncle Guo turned his head with a complicated expression.
He said, “Yes.”
Lin Zhi: "When did the incident happen to him?"
"Seven years ago, he went out to sea and couldn't speak after he came back. Everyone said that he slandered the Queen of the Sea at sea, which made the Queen of the Sea angry."
Uncle Guo twitched the corner of his mouth and shook his head unconsciously.
Seven years ago, the time did not match that of Dong Yuan’s accident.
Xie Qing: "What about his hands?"
Uncle Guo said vaguely: "I don't know, it just happened one day, because he didn't believe in Lady Hai, people always bullied him."
Lin Zhi: "When did the strange things in the village start happening?"
"Half a month ago, the wreckage of Shitou's boat floated here along the sea, and everyone knew that they had an accident. Sister Liu asked a few people to take a boat to the sea to take a look. But before the boat had gone far, the waves overturned it, and no one dared to go out to sea."
"Then people started dying in the village one after another. Everyone thought it was Queen Hai who was urging them to come, so they sent brides in one after another. In less than a week, three brides were sent in."
Uncle Guo clenched the fishing net in his hand and sighed.
He didn't look into Lin Zhi's eyes and finished speaking with his head down.
It’s strange to say, but the best-looking boy among the group who asked him questions always made him feel uneasy. He always felt uneasy when he was looked at by him.
"This is not a good place. You should hurry up and follow the road out of the village. Maybe you won't get lost."
After saying this, Uncle Guo seemed to have no desire to talk anymore. He walked into the house and closed the door.
Lin Zhi saw the panic in his back and restrained her breath.
He had just deliberately released some Yin energy around Uncle Guo, hoping to make him answer honestly, and it seemed the result was quite good.
Lin Zhi actually already had a rough guess in his mind, but he still lacked some additional information.
"You're right! The timeline really doesn't match up. It seems that the secret that those people don't want the Third Brother to tell is the truth of everything."
Zhang Yunzhao looked at Lin Zhi, his eyes sparkling.
He gives people the impression of being handsome and shy, and even his posture and voice when complimenting others are very restrained.
Xie Qing:?
Still coming, it’s not over yet, right?
Compared with the truly innocent boy, his innocence will seem inferior.
Lin Zhi nodded, and when she was about to talk about the next arrangements, a piece of fruit hard candy was stuck on her lips.
The strawberry-flavored candy was squeezed into his mouth, and Xie Qing calmly pinched the candy wrapper in his palm.
"I'll pack his candy for him."
Xie Qing looked at everyone and gave a special explanation.
In fact, even if he didn't explain, everyone knew it. After all, the point products in the game are not allowed to interact. That is, players can only enjoy things purchased with their own points, and they cannot use other people's items. The sugar will turn into air when it enters the mouth.
Liu Yue: "I am greedy after seeing this, I want to buy one too."
One candy equals one point, so Liu Yue decided to indulge in a little luxury.
Lin Zhi fiddled with the candy with the tip of her tongue and said, "Let's go to that man next."
Everyone left Uncle Guo's house and arrived at the third brother's house.
Zhang Yunzhao: "When we came out, the door was closed."
Now the door was wide open and there was no one inside.
Zhang San: "If we come earlier, we might be able to run into him, but it's not certain. Maybe the mechanism of this NPC is that as long as it interacts with the player, it will proceed to the next stage of the task."
However, no one knows what the next step is.
Everyone entered the smaller room and searched it, but found nothing of value.
Zhang San: "Let's go take a look at that empty house."
The door of the house of the villager who didn't look like a fisherman was still open and there was no one inside.
Zhang San: "We searched the surface but didn't find anything useful. Let's see if there is a cellar."
It is always faster to search with more people, and finally Tongtong found a loose tile in the corner of the wall.
Xie Qing took the bricks away and found the big box inside.
There were account books piled up there, covered with a layer of dust.
Xie Qing dusted off the dust and said, "All of these are the income from selling fish in the village over the years. The time is seven years ago."
Others also took the account books below and found that each account book was in units of five years.
Zhang San: "The income from these sales is all combined. The whole village sells together. It's probably because this village is relatively small and it's not cost-effective to sell individually. This person is not a fisherman, but an accountant?"
Lin Zhi took the account book from Xie Qing's hand and flipped through it quickly.
He flipped through the pages one by one, and everyone followed suit without knowing what was going on, but they didn't understand anything. They only saw that the village was quite poor, and that people didn't earn much after working hard for a whole year.
That is to say, after offering sacrifices to the bride, there will be a peak period of income. In the years when no wedding ceremony is held, in addition to the fish breeding period, there will be more catches on the Sea Goddess Festival.
This can clearly show why the people in this village believe in the Goddess of the Sea so much, because it will bring better harvests and is related to their lives.
Lin Zhi closed the account book, and Xie Qing asked, "Did you see anything?"
Lin Zhi: "I have some guesses in my mind, but I'm not sure yet. Let's go check with the old lady."
He was sure that there was something wrong with the account book and there were signs of accounts being settled, but he had no way to analyze it within the limited time. Lin Zhi did not intend to tell everyone because he could not explain the matter with his businessman's intuition.
Lin Zhi had seen countless fake accounts, and this person's method was not very sophisticated.
Everyone returned the traces to their place and went to the residence of the old lady that Tongtong and Liu Yue mentioned.
The dark and damp woodshed seemed to have no light entering.
In this case, it is difficult to distinguish the marks on the floor.
However, Lin Zhi saw clearly that not only the floor, but also the wooden boards on the walls and roof, and even the bed where the old lady was lying, all had signs of blue-black corrosion.
The air had a foul smell of the sea, like the stench of dead fish rotting.
The old woman lying on the bed was humming a discontinuous tune and showed no response to anything in the outside world.
Only when she heard Chen A Lian's name would she whisper the name.
Xie Qing: "Grandma, has Chen A Lian come back to see you?"
"Alian...come back...to find me."
The old woman on the bed slowly turned her head, looked at the stranger, and repeated slowly.
Her eyes were staring straight out the door, and at that moment, the air seemed to become even more fishy and smelly.
The roof, walls, ground, bed... there seemed to be something crawling, like surging sea water, flooding the room in an instant, making people feel almost choking.
Liu Yue took Tongtong and ran out without hesitation, but someone was faster than her as a speed-type player.
Xie Qing quickly pulled Lin Zhi out of the house, then leaned against Lin Zhi's neck and gasped for breath, saying uncomfortably: "Wife, I feel so uncomfortable, I may need artificial respiration."
Xie Qing originally wanted to ask Lin Zhi if he needed humanitarian assistance such as artificial respiration, but then he remembered that his wife was a ghost and had died eight hundred years ago, so there was no need to save her.
So he thought about it and chose the most reasonable way.
After artificial respiration, he was shy again. Who could be more innocent than him?
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