Su Jing lifted up his cloak and showed them the three rectangular holes at the hem.
The prop he holds is called Mimicry Cloak, which can blur the perception of people around him to a certain extent.
When Su Jing sneaks into Gan Gan Village wearing a cloak, everyone subconsciously thinks he is a player.
He cut off the cloak and handed it to the driver, who subconsciously mistook the scraps of cloth for a ticket.
Subsystem: ...Low-level items can be used like this?!
If I had known this earlier, I shouldn’t have given it to Su Jian for nothing. It’s such a big loss!
Shi Yuntian: "Oh, a worthless chicken can also be of some use."
Lu Shufan praised, "Even if Susu is a useless little snack, she is still a system NPC after all."
"You two." Yu Qimiao glared at them and reminded them softly, "Don't forget what you promised Su Qiong."
Shi Yuntian raised his lips, "Don't worry, I will never owe anyone a favor."
After saying that, he glanced at me and said, "Whoever follows me wins."
He who follows me wins felt an inexplicable chill on his back. Before he could find the source of his fear, Yu Qi Miao was already in front of him.
"Let's make a deal and I'll take you in the car."
Before he could say anything, the person next to him asked, "Boss Yu, can you take me in the car?"
"And me!"
Those players who spoke up were loyal believers of "Follow Me, Win."
Before Yu Qisuo came over, they were secretly discussing and complaining that "He who obeys me wins" was not as omnipotent as he boasted.
He who obeys me wins has always been supported by the players. His vanity has swelled to the extreme. He said arrogantly, "Who are you? Why do you negotiate with me?"
Just as he finished speaking, Shi Yuntian touched the heavy blade behind him.
Those who follow me win. He was afraid of him, but he didn't want to lose face in front of his followers. He boldly took out the two hundred yuan he had received yesterday and said, "I'll take you on the bus. Driver, buy the tickets!"
The driver, holding a cigarette in his mouth, took the two banknotes from his hand and hummed dully, "Hurry up, it's time to leave."
"Hmph!" The one who follows me snorted coldly, walked past them, and got into the car with a proud look on his face.
Yu Qimiao looked calm, without any anger at being ridiculed. He sat in the back seat of the bus holding Su Qiang.
Shi Yuntian lowered his voice, "I told you before, you should just do it and stop wasting time talking to him."
Su Jing Tips: In the game "IF", the player's combat effectiveness increases exponentially with the increase of level, and head-on conflict is risky.
Under the same conditions, a level 2 player is stronger than four level 1 players.
"Tsk." Shi Yuntian said disdainfully.
Yu Qi Miao: "Don't worry, he will come to beg me."
Lu Shufan was curious, "Do you have any other tricks?"
"Well, I just deliberately forced the one who obeyed me to reveal all his cards." Yu Qimiao said calmly, "Do you think we need a return ticket?"
“…”
The capitalists have such dirty hearts!
The bus probably has the ability to travel through time. It arrived at the station in just five minutes, and outside the window was a completely different world.
Cars come and go, tall buildings stand in rows, and everywhere you look is rich and prosperous.
The passengers from Gangan Village got off the bus, and the driver left a message saying "The last bus arrives at 6pm" and disappeared on the spot.
Players have become accustomed to the dilapidated state of Gan Gan Village. When they come to the city, the dazzling world makes them lose their way.
Yu Qi Miao: "The city should have the conditions to complete the main quest, let's go take a look."
"good!"
This city, like the big cities outside the game world, is full of job opportunities.
Since this dungeon only lasted five days, it was impossible to find a monthly or long-term job. The socialite, Shufan, found the bar street with familiarity, went in to explore, and returned with two clues.
"There are indeed a lot of jobs in the city, but they don't hire people from Gan Gan Village." Lu Shufan spread his hands. "The bar owner told me that people from Gan Gan Village are all low-class people and can only do dirty, messy and hard low-level jobs."
“Tsk.”
Yu Qi Miao: "Normal. Throughout history, slave owners treated slaves, colonizers treated the colonized, and upper castes treated the lower castes. The essence is the same. They exploited as much as they could, ensuring that those under their feet had no ability to resist."
"Don't jump to conclusions yet. Let me tell you about my second clue." Lu Shufan held up two fingers. "I've discovered that the currency here is different from the one used in Gan Gan Village."
"What a fuss! So what if the currency is different?" Shi Yuntian disagreed.
Yu Qimiao's expression was serious. "There's a difference in currency. This is a very serious problem."
Shi Yuntian: What’s serious?
The other two people didn't know how to explain to him, so Su Jing calmly raised his card and said: Excuse me, is the currency you usually use the same as the currency issued by Tiandi Bank?
Issued by Tiandi Bank? Isn’t that for the dead?
Shi Yuntian choked and his face turned red.
You look sweet and soft, but why are you so mean to me?
Su Jian raised the sign again: The system only recognizes the currency of Gan Gan Village.
In other words, if a player earns 100,000 in the city, it does not mean that he has completed the main quest.
Yu Qimiao was secretly in despair.
Su Jian: You can exchange currency through the mimic NPC at home.
"Mimic NPC? Could it be..."
Su Jing nodded and announced cruelly: Players who kill the mimic NPC will not be able to complete the main quest.
"Sure enough, killing people is not the correct way to pass the level." Yu Qimiao breathed a sigh of relief.
After observing last night and this morning, there are too many suspicious points in Gangan Village.
In comparison, earning a hundred thousand was obviously much easier. The three of them agreed on a time to reunite and then went their separate ways.
Lu Shufan continued to stay in the bar street, although he had no way of getting a formal job. However, as a top streamer in the gaming area, he was very good at using sweet words to coax people into giving him money.
Shi Yuntian carried a heavy blade and stepped into the underground arena.
The competition area is filled with prominent figures who appear well-dressed but enjoy watching the "lower class" fight each other or wrestle with wild beasts. Every competition results in either death or disability.
The people of Gangan Village are considered to be the lowest class of the low caste and cannot find decent jobs in the city. The arena is cruel and terrifying, but it can provide a considerable income.
Yu Qimiao first borrowed money from Lu Shufan, then, with the money from the livestreamer's sale, entered the arena to place his bets. In just twenty minutes, his money ballooned.
Boss Yu returned the principal to Lu Shufan, then turned to Su Qiong beside him and asked, "I'm going to the stock exchange. Do you want to come with me?"
Su Jing shook his head: I'll go look for clues.
Compared to the main mission, he cares more about the many mysteries of Gangan Village.
Su Qi's intuition told him that the system wouldn't arrange new scenes that had nothing to do with the plot. Therefore, he should be able to find useful clues in the city.
"Okay, be careful." Yu Qimiao took out a dagger and put it on Su Jing's waist.
Although Su Jing has no offensive power, he has weapons on him and can better protect himself.
Su Jing lowered his head and saw him handing over his only weapon to him.
In the morning, Yu Qimiao fixed his bandages, so Su Qiong gave him the train ticket.
Now he gave me the dagger, was it in exchange for a ticket tonight?
Su Qiong is the code, Yu Qi Miao is the capitalist. In their world, there should be no human entanglements, only exchanges of interests.
Su Jian: I will give you tickets.
Yu Qimiao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay."
He thought happily: This is what is called a two-way run!
The exchange of interests was successful, and Su Jing floated away with peace of mind, concealing his presence and patrolling the entire city.
The city is much larger than Gangan Village. Su Jian explored it alone for most of the day, but did not get much useful information except that "the people in the city are very rich."
The system guides players to the city. Is it trying to make players more clearly aware of the poverty of Gangan Village through comparison?
Why bother?
Even without comparison, Gangan Village is poor enough.
Su Jing huddled in the corner, thinking unconsciously.
As the sun gradually sets, many night shops prepare to open.
Several beautiful shadows flashed before Su Jing. He looked over and saw several young women.
A very beautifully dressed young woman.
——From Gangan Village.
Su Jing immediately followed and stood in front of them.
The city's security is pretty good. When a woman was stopped by a stranger, she just looked at him warily.
"Who are you?"
Su Jing couldn't speak, and wanted to communicate using the system bracelet, but found that they couldn't see him.
"Are you a customer of our store?" The woman in the floral dress saw that he was nervous and took the initiative to say, "If you have anything to say, please come to our store tonight. We have a rule in our store that we are not allowed to receive customers without permission."
"Guest? Why haven't I seen him before?" The woman in yellow stepped forward, flirting coquettishly, "Next time you come to our shop, remember to ask me to accompany you for drinks~"
After just a few words, Su Jing had guessed what they did for a living.
People from Gangan Village have no proper job opportunities and can only do jobs that are despised by city people.
According to his observation, Gangan Village is a very conservative and traditional village. This way of making a living is mostly painful for the women.
Su Jing wanted to ask them urgently why they would rather endure insults and humiliation than stay in the city?
Su Qiong was unable to communicate verbally. Seeing the women about to leave, he rushed over to stop them and wrote three words with his fingers:
Gangan Village
After seeing the words written by Su Jing clearly, several beautiful faces showed disgust and annoyance at the same time.
"Gan Gan Village? What is that place? I don't know it."
"If we had known you were from that village, we shouldn't have paid any attention to you."
"What bad luck! All the men in that village should go to hell!"
"Bah! Don't touch me!"
Su Jian tried to ask for more information, but the women refused to communicate, avoiding him as if he were the plague, and walked away.
"……"Wronged.
Was affected.
Su Jing secretly noted which store they walked into, and planned to guide the players to talk to them when he had the chance in the future.
When he returned to the meeting place, he heard Lu Shufan calling him from afar.
"Little one, you're back just in time, hurry up!" Lu Shufan grabbed him, dragged him to Shi Yuntian's side, and pressed Su Jing's hand on the hilt of the heavy blade.
Shi Yuntian: "Haven't you eaten yet, kid? Try harder!"
Su Jing put a little more strength and found that the heavy blade was on the neck of the one who obeyed me. Half of his head had been chopped off, but he had no intention of resisting at all.
"Don't dither, just give me a quick death!" The one who obeys me grimaced in pain and simply stretched out his hand and broke his neck with a snap.
[System prompt: KPI+3]
"He killed two players during the day and has already reached level three." Yu Qimiao urged, "You can speak now, hurry up and redeem it."
Su Jing opened the system store in a daze, and Lu Shufan was quick and directly selected the conversation function for him.
The bloodstains on the ground disappeared, and those who obey me will win resurrected again. He touched his neck with lingering fear. His face was gloomy, and he reminded in a rough voice, "Don't forget what you promised me."
"What's the matter?" Su Qiong thought about this question in his mind and said it naturally.
The moment the sound was made, four pairs of eyes around him all looked at him.
"You... cough." Shi Yuntian turned his head away, "Your voice is quite nice."
"How cute! Little snack, please talk again!"
"Stop it, he's not a toy." Yu Qi Miao stopped the two of them, but his eyes were full of expectation, wanting to hear what Su Jian said next.
Su Jing began to doubt his life, no, his NPC life.
He is a code, and his voice should also be randomly synthesized.
——What a rubbish system, what’s so good about synthesizing?
There are so many voices in the stock library, why give him a sweet, soft, and cute boyish voice?!
Su Qiong opened his mouth, attempting to demonstrate the power of a system NPC. However, he discovered that even with his curse words, his voice would sound like a marshmallow's coquettishness to others.
Help.
I want to go back and lie in the coffin.
"Before you came back, Follow Me Winner found Yuyu to trade. He killed his own mimic NPC and can't convert currency. Now, we are the only ones in the entire game who can help him."
"Oh." Su Jing nodded to show that he understood.
"So cute." Shi Yuntian praised unconsciously.
“…” Su Jing regretted it.
Does the system store support seven-day no-reason refund?
Yu Qimiao's heart was trembling with fear at Su Jing's cuteness, but he forced himself to remain calm and negotiated with the man who "obeys me and wins".
"The head just now can only take you to the car. As for helping you pass the customs, there is another price."
The one who obeys me wins, realizing he's been ripped off, and his face flushes red. "You're asking for an exorbitant price!"
"Sir," Yu Qi Miao smiled a kind smile. "Just to be clear, I asked you this morning, and it was you who refused to cooperate first."
Shi Yuntian: "What, any objections?"
“No, no.”
Lu Shufan: "Since you have no objection, next time Xiaodianxin needs KPI, just give me your head~"
"……good."
Su Jian:?
No one asked for my opinion?
On the way back to the village, the orphans exchanged information about today's income.
Lu Shufan: "I made a full 30,000. I also managed to get some rich women to introduce me to clients. I'm sure I'll make enough next time I go to the city."
"Fifty-five thousand." Shi Yuntian spitted. "The share of the arena is too low. Those damn capitalists."
The capitalist himself sat there and said slowly, "I have made enough money."
“!!!” Everyone looked at him.
"Also, I've left some of my assets at the Securities Center. When I return to the city in three days, the profits I'll earn should be enough to clear all the players in this dungeon."
"Dad! You're my real dad!" Lu Shufan rushed over and gave Yu Qimiao a leg massage. "If I had known I'd please a rich woman instead of you!"
"Move aside." Yu Qimiao pushed him away and turned to Su Qiong. "What about you?"
Su Qiong answered honestly, "I didn't make any money."
His voice was so nice that his teammates couldn't bear to blame him.
——I didn’t expect to make money from this marshmallow.
Yu Qimiao comforted him, saying that as long as he came back safely, it was fine.
Su Qiong was inexplicably comforted and continued, "I found a woman of marriageable age in Gan Gan Village."
"real?!"
If the judgment is correct, this is a key clue, more important than making money.
Su Jing nodded and was about to explain in detail when the bus stopped at the entrance of Gangan Village.
As the sun sets, the scene at the village entrance is the same as yesterday.
The dozen or so old bachelors squatting at the village entrance looked even more greedy than yesterday.
The nursery rhymes they sang seemed to have some kind of magic, giving people a splitting headache.
After careful listening, I realized that the content of the nursery rhyme was different from yesterday.
"Gan Gan Village, empty of poles. Where is my gold mountain?"
"Ask my mother and my sister, where is my mountain of gold?"
"You're sick! Stop singing, stop singing!"
"You want a mountain of gold without working? Dream on!"
The players were tortured by the weird nursery rhymes and felt dizzy and confused.
Su Jian has no ears and most likely no brain, so he is not affected at all.
He was dressed in snow-white. He looked down on the old bachelor who was covered in mud, so he carefully walked around him and walked into the village, rubbing his hand against the stone tablet at the entrance.
When he came to the stone tablet, Su Jing took a closer look and seemed to have discovered something.
"Hey, let me tell you." Su Jing leaned close to Yu Qimiao's ear and whispered something.
"I understand." Yu Qimiao nodded, "I'll go out with you in the evening."
"Yu Yu, Xiao Dian Xin, can someone help me?" Lu Shufan staggered into the village and held on to the person next to him to steady himself.
I thought it was a player or a villager, but after a closer look, I found that it was a burly man exuding a dangerous aura.
"You're back just in time, pay me back!" The burly man was obviously of a high rank, creating a huge sense of oppression.
"Every wrong has its perpetrator, why are you asking me for it?"
"Why? Everyone in Gan Gan Village owes me a debt!" The big man brought the villagers out to testify. Only then did the players know that every household in Gan Gan Village owed a huge amount of money.
Su Jian received a new clue and opened the control panel to see a line of words:
【The player can only settle the account after paying off the debt. 】
Player: ???
Dog is better than the system, can you be a human being?
"I guessed it," a certain capitalist said calmly. "People often say that 20% of the world's population controls 80% of the wealth, but that's actually not true. The truth is, 20% of the population controls 150% of the wealth, and the remaining 80% bear 50% of the debt. This is the essence of why the bottom of the society is always poor."
In reality, mortgages, car loans, and credit cards make the poor think they can enjoy it in advance.
In fact, they advance their own lives just to pay the interest that the rich get.
"Oh my God, how could this happen?"
"Is there any way we can get through this?"
"Yes." Su Qi said affirmatively, "There is more than one way to pass the level."
After hearing his words, the surroundings became even more silent.
There's more than one way to beat the game, but they can't find even one.
That night, the atmosphere was desperate and depressing.
After dinner, the players went to sleep, gradually losing the energy to fight the dungeon.
It was not until late at night that four dark shadows sneaked out of the cave and came to the entrance of the village.
"Are you sure you want to do this? This village is haunted. What if we anger it?"
"Lu Shufan, you're a grown man, and you're still afraid of ghosts? Come on, give me a hand." Shi Yuntian used the heavy blade as a shovel, stepped on it with his feet, and pried up the stone tablet at the entrance of the village.
The other two helped to hold the stone tablet and carried it up. Following Su Jing's instructions, they moved it to the riverside.
"The broken ends of the two stone tablets are consistent and can be put together." Su Qiong adjusted the angle and asked them to turn the stone tablet at the entrance of the village upside down and place it on the stone tablet by the river.
It is now night, and the stone tablet by the river originally read "Sun and Moon River".
As soon as the stone tablet with "Gan Gan Village" was put up, red liquid slowly flowed down from it, wetting the tablet on the Sun and Moon River.
As they watched, blood-red radicals appeared on the surface of the Sun and Moon River, turning into—
Yangyin River
The small characters at the bottom gradually became clearer, and Su Jian could see clearly that there were two more words before "Do not enter this river":
'Men, do not enter this river'
Below the prompt, there are the first two lines of the nursery rhyme.
As they looked at the words, they could faintly hear the sad chanting of countless women, each word was sorrowful.
"Gan Gan Village, bare poles, your daughter-in-law is there."
At the bottom of the river, in the desolate mountains, the wronged soul has been covered in snow for eighteen years.
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