Six Days in a Deserted Village (Part 2)
"puff."
The man in the white coat suddenly burst into laughter.
She held the door with one hand and covered her stomach with the other. Her whole body was shaking and her face looked a little hideous because she was trying to hold back a smile.
Chen Yu was worried that the knife might stab her stomach by accident.
But she was too suspicious. The man in the white coat had a steady hand. When he had laughed enough, he pushed open the other half of the door and walked in quickly.
The bright sun outside the window finally filled the house completely, dispelling the dampness, coldness and bloodiness on the ground. The birds and insects' chirping suddenly became louder and more pleasant to the ears, and even the air became extremely fresh.
In just a few minutes, Chen Yu felt like he was reborn from hell.
Everyone in the room focused their attention on the man in the white coat. Some had hopeful looks in their eyes, but most still had numb expressions.
Except for the man who had calm eyes just now, he frowned and looked a little embarrassed.
This man was good-looking, with bright eyes and sparse eyebrows, and he exuded a cool aura. Unfortunately, there was a tape on his mouth, his hands were bound, and even his legs were tied tightly. His clothes seemed to have been torn in several places because of his struggle, and the whole person looked a little pitiful.
"Oh," the man in the white coat walked in front of him with a clear destination in mind, squatted down, and had a faint smile on his face, "Why do my teammates live like this when I'm not around?"
Lu Fanye glanced at her indifferently and lowered his eyes, as if to say, "Untie him quickly."
"Okay, I won't tease you anymore," Xu Wei said as he used a dagger to unclip his straps, took off his white coat and threw it over, "There are a few holes in your clothes."
Lu Fanye tore off the black tape on his mouth, stretched his body for a while, and silently put on his white coat.
"Are there any players here?" Xu Wei stood up and looked around. "Player, can anyone hear this word?"
Someone made a noise, Xu Wei leaned over and asked again, then stood up again: "This one isn't it either."
Chen Yu didn't understand the meaning of her words.
Player? Is this all just a game?
But the pain is real.
After asking several people tentatively, Xu Wei waited for a while, but no one answered. He shrugged in disappointment and said, "It seems that we are not lucky. This one doesn't have it. Let's go to the next one."
She and Lu Fanye walked out of the door quickly, and the sound of their footsteps gradually faded away.
Probably won't come back again.
Chen Yu moved her wrists but couldn't free herself from the knot. She began to regret that she had chosen to remain silent because she suspected the other party.
Even though he firmly believed that his family would soon discover that he was missing, he had to get out of his current predicament first.
That's so stupid.
She had planned to stay here and wait for rescue, but the body trapped under the door at the other end of the room suddenly twisted, its five fingers scratched on the ground, leaving several bloody marks, and with its limp arms against its chest, it raised its body and crawled towards her.
"Eternal...immortality..."
“Eat another one…”
"eat......"
The strange changes in the corpse soon caused quite a stir, and screams were heard in the house.
Chen Yu was so frightened that he used his hands and feet to roll out of the door, but the threshold was too high and he could not climb over it even with his body arched.
"Help!"
She leaned against the threshold, kicking frantically at the approaching corpse, and struggling frantically to call out the man's name, only to find that she didn't even know how to address the other person.
"Don't come over here! Don't come over here!!"
"Help! Don't come over here!!"
The corpse soon came up to me, and its cold and sticky fingers gripped my calf. The pain climbed up inch by inch, and fear and chill swept across my spine.
Chen Yu sobbed, closed her eyes in despair, tears streaming down her face.
I'm going to die in this inexplicable place.
“Yo.”
A faint laugh.
“There really is a player.”
The expected pain did not come. Chen Yu opened her eyes again, blurry with tears. She saw the man in the white coat easily subduing the corpse, and the man with the knife squatted in front of her and quickly cut the rope that bound her hands.
"Why didn't you say it just now? I almost missed you." His tone was not as sharp as when he kicked the door, and it was even a little gentle.
His wrist suddenly relaxed, and there was a dull pain. Having almost been in danger twice and then been rescued, Chen Yu could no longer hold back his emotions and hugged the person in front of him and burst into tears.
Xu Wei: “…”
He sighed and patted the girl's head.
She was terrified, a little like she used to be.
Thinking of this, Xu Wei immediately became angry and turned to the door: "What a good thing you did."
There was a sudden cry for mercy outside the door.
"Sister! I didn't know she was yours. If you had known, I would definitely not have done this!" The village chief bowed his head, his waist almost bent to the ground, "Why don't you go to other rooms to see if there are any of your people there? Don't miss any more..."
Behind him followed several young men with bruised faces and noses, looking as pale as if they had been beaten.
Xu Wei: "How long will it take to search room by room? Bring all the remaining ones to the square. I need some people."
"this……"
"Think about it carefully. I said I don't care what you do, but that's all."
The village chief quickly took his people away.
Seeing that Chen Yu had almost finished crying, Xu Wei pulled her up and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to meet the others first."
The room that the village chief "prepared" for Xu Wei was near his home. It was a clean small house with tiled floors, one of the rare new buildings in the village.
There were already three people sitting in the main room, two men and one woman.
As soon as Xu Wei appeared, they hurriedly stood up to greet her. The man with a slicked-back hair in the lead nodded and bowed, picked up the only teapot on the table and was about to pour water for her.
The woman sitting next to him made a "tsk" sound but also gave up her seat.
Xu Wei frowned and stopped him: "I said, it's not necessary."
"Please introduce yourself first."
The man with the slicked-back hair is called Lu Qian, the other slightly silent man is called Zhao Hao, and the woman who is obviously impatient with the man with the slicked-back hair does not want to reveal her name and calls herself Sun Yi.
Lu Qian seemed very enthusiastic. When he learned that this was Chen Yu's first time entering a dungeon, he took her aside and explained the rules in detail.
The latter calmed down and finally completed the guidance and became a prop master.
The remaining players exchanged information with each other. Except for Xu Wei, everyone else was tied up and sent to the place of detention, and then rescued by her.
There was no useful information, so everyone could only continue to wait in the main hall for someone to be called.
When the village chief brought the remaining "goods" to the square, Xu Wei was inevitably shocked by the quantity.
Before she found Lu Fanye, she had already climbed through no less than five "cells" that held about thirty people, and there were more than twenty people standing in rows in the square, being beaten and pushed by the young people.
Including the rescued players, the number of people trafficked illegally by this village actually exceeds half a hundred.
Observing their mental state again, one can find that most of them look numb, like machines that need a push to move. The few with light in their eyes are the new arrivals today. Unfortunately, Xu Wei did not find any players among them.
She simply used her skills on everyone, and the village chief and others who were watching did radio gymnastics together in the big square, which further deepened the villagers' fear.
Now her address has changed from "sister" to "great aunt". Some villagers are so weak in the knees that they kneel down and kowtow, begging her to fulfill their wishes.
The people in this village seem to be particularly superstitious.
Although they have electronic devices such as mobile phones and the village has installed electrical wires, every household does not install any electrical appliances. Even if the house is dark, they are used to lighting candles. They are self-sufficient by farming and raising pigs and do not like to go out. Their only form of entertainment is to squeeze in the shadow of the eaves and watch the village chief handle "goods".
According to the village chief, it's time for a festival.
Yuezu Festival. Many villagers can only experience it once or twice in their lifetime. It is a major event that takes place every fifty years in Yuejia Village. During this festival, they will parade, offer sacrifices, and pray to their ancestor "Yuezu God" for help, hoping to prolong their life and achieve immortality through his blessings.
There are indeed a lot of young and middle-aged people in the village. There are very few elderly people among the crowd. Even the village chief himself looks very young.
When he heard the word "God", Xu Wei couldn't help but think of the group of players who worshipped evil gods.
And followers of evil cults...cannot escape the label of fanaticism.
She glanced at the village chief who seemed to be relatively normal at the moment, then lowered her eyes in thought.
After the villagers left with their "goods", Lu Qian confidently speculated: "This festival will last for six days, the first three days are for preparation, and the last three days are for the official event. I guess our mission is to survive until the last day."
His speculation is not without reason, as copy missions are usually related to survival time limits.
Zhao Hao: "I vaguely heard the villagers here talking about us."
His words pulled Xu Wei out of her thoughts: "What did you talk about?"
The villagers were very far away from them, and with the interference of the music, even people with sensitive hearing would have found it difficult to hear a word.
This should be his ability.
Zhao Hao seemed to have gotten used to his abilities being exposed. His skills were not offensive and could only be used to share information. Now he encountered a stronger player who was the first to use his skills. He might as well be more tactful and get out of the dungeon earlier.
"We said that we caused the sacrifice to the 'old ancestor' to appear before it was prepared, and we will suffer retribution. The fox fairy will come to punish us at night."
"Fox fairy?" Sun Yi was incredulous. "How can there be both gods and fox fairies? This village must be in heaven, right?"
Zhao Hao glanced at Xu Wei and saw that she didn't say anything. He continued what he had been interrupted with, "The 'god' should be the ancestor of this village, also with the surname Yue. The fox fairy is the spirit that protects the 'god'. If anyone disrespects the god, they will be punished like Zhang Pozi and Wang Niu."
Sun Yi: "Who are Mrs. Zhang and Wang Niu?"
Even though Zhao Hao had a good temper, he was always interrupted and his face turned black: "I didn't say anything specific."
Currently, very little information has been revealed about this copy, especially the bracelet has not yet given the mission objectives, so players are inevitably at a loss as to where to start.
Xu Wei decided to go out for a walk.
She first went to the village chief's house.
The village chief's house is also made of mud bricks. It does not look any better than the houses of ordinary villagers. The walls of the courtyard are even made of mud.
She pushed open the door of the main house and saw the village chief holding a box and muttering something.
I came in in a hurry and only heard the word "immortality".
Upon seeing Xu Wei, the village chief hugged the box tightly reflexively and asked nervously, "What's wrong, great-aunt? Can't you find your people again?"
Xu Wei raised an eyebrow and held out his hand to him: "Take a look."
The village chief’s first reaction was to press the box into his arms and step back. After a few steps, he bumped into the chair behind him and stumbled and fell.
Even so, he protected the box in his hand and did not let it fall.
Xu Wei became even more curious and took a few steps closer. Unexpectedly, the village chief backed away desperately as if in stress, and his head hit the painting behind him, making a "pop" sound.
This box is very important to him.
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