Six Days in a Deserted Village (VIII)
On the third day of the Yuezu Festival, there is a parade.
At first, the players thought that the parade was like some real folk festivals, with gongs and drums, and villagers dressed up as Yuezu gods and lined up in long queues to parade through the streets.
But I didn’t expect that the protagonist of Youcun is “the goods”.
There was a long parade, with four people at the front playing gongs and drums, and a long line of people in tattered clothes following behind them.
Drag.
They had been without food and water for two days, and their bodies were completely exhausted. They were dragged forward with ropes hanging from their arms.
The people holding the ropes do not allow the sacrificial animals to walk while standing; they must walk on their knees, all the way from the stone tablet at the entrance of the village to the front of the Yuezu Temple.
In just a few dozen steps, some people's knees were already rubbed and torn, with winding bloodstains.
"Regret, regret——"
The singers and reciters in the parade pinched their throats and raised the pitch, looking extremely sad.
The villagers who were watching were crowded in the shaded corridors and under the eaves. No one spoke, but their eyes were fixed on the strangers in the team with eagerness.
The further the procession went, the more villagers squeezed out of their houses to watch. No one was making noise, and in the huge village there was only the ensemble of gongs, drums and suonas and the monotonous and sad singing, which added a bit of weirdness to the deserted village, which was already shrouded in gloom.
The villagers kneel down as a form of repentance during the sacrifice, which corresponds to another strange story.
Xu Wei stood with his hands behind his back, looking coldly at the creature that was a body length shorter than him.
Just catch her when she comes out alone.
Although she has not fully recovered her memory and her self-perception is confused, sometimes she feels like a villager and sometimes she feels like a player as others call her, but her memories of the past few days have indeed been mostly recovered.
She clearly recalled how she had threatened the village chief and caused chaos in the warehouse.
It also made her more confident in her identity as a player.
Her actions in the past few days seemed to have made this "god" who controls everything pay more and more attention to her. First, he took advantage of her coma and attacked the player's residence with a fox fairy, and then he used the strange story of the long-necked ghost to lure out the graveyard nursery rhyme, and now he has brought up a second strange story.
He really wanted to kill her.
Xu Wei stood quietly there, waiting for "God's" new tricks.
Wang Niu was kneeling on the ground, his knees had been worn to a bloody mess, with the bones visible. He was emaciated, with two arms that were obviously too long hanging at his sides. The area below his knees was swollen into a huge tumor, with the ulcer rubbing against the ground, leaving skin and flesh all over, which made people feel sick.
"I regret it, I regret it..." He kowtowed several times to Xu Wei.
Without waiting for her response, he kneeled two steps forward, got closer, and kowtowed again.
"Ancestor God! Please forgive me!"
Xu Wei silently moved half a body away to prevent him from kneeling down to her.
But it seemed like this thing had wrapped around her, and as she turned around, her knees, which were already in poor condition, were rubbed even more terribly.
Xu Wei tried to walk backwards a few steps quickly, and the other party immediately caught up with him at a nimble speed, keeping a distance of three steps each time, and then began to kowtow according to the procedure.
She didn't retreat again.
The first time, its forehead hit the ground with a "bang" sound, and a few drops of blood dripped.
The second time, it used more force and broke the skin on its forehead.
The third time, as soon as it lowered its head, Xu Wei felt dazed and couldn't help but want to bend his knees with it.
Worship together.
Then she stood there stiffly and accepted Wang Niu's three bows.
After the worship, Wang Niu was also stunned, as if he didn't know why she was not affected, as if the established program that had been used for decades suddenly encountered a BUG during testing, and could only pop up the prompt "The program encountered an unknown error" continuously.
Xu Wei suppressed the urge to kneel down and said sarcastically, "This little influence won't do. The level of pollution I've experienced before is much higher than this."
As soon as she finished speaking, she was stunned.
The lost memory is completely restored.
She didn't like this feeling, being forced to lose important memories and only being able to recover them gradually over time. There was no doubt that what affected her was closely related to the wooden plaque dug out from the grave.
Yesterday, Lu Fanye had the wit to throw away the thing and she began to recover. But when I went there this morning, she was gone.
If I had known earlier, I should have dug up the huge mound where the Yuezu God was buried to see what was hidden underneath and what was playing tricks on me.
I really want to kill them all.
"Hiss..." She covered her forehead with her hands again, secretly trying to suppress the surging emotions in her heart.
That awful, weird impulse that always makes me angry for no apparent reason came back.
This impulse prompted her to massacre the warehouse, smash the statues, and stop the fox fairy. From time to time, other violent thoughts emerged, which were always cleverly mixed with the original emotions, making it difficult to detect.
It’s like there’s an annoying villain living in your head. He hides himself very deeply at ordinary times, but once negative emotions emerge in your heart, he immediately amplifies them several times like a loud speaker, and persuades you to do more impulsive things in your ears.
She didn't think a C-level dungeon boss could do this.
Judging from the recent encounters with the BOSS, it can only use the original power of the copy - ghost stories, fox fairies or rule levels to influence her indirectly, and it cannot attack her on the spot even if the statue is smashed.
Even in just three days, he kept doing things repeatedly, appearing to be very anxious to kill the enemy as soon as possible.
It is obvious that its power has not yet reached its peak and it has a sense of crisis.
Xu Wei guessed that either it instinctively sensed that there was a comparable existence among the players, or it had discovered a weakness of its own.
What will it be?
She narrowed her eyes.
Wang Niu was still kneeling in front of her, at a loss, staring blankly at the ground, not knowing whether to continue kowtowing.
The already chaotic consciousness completely froze.
Thanks to it, Xu Wei can now clearly feel the gap between himself and the C-level copy creatures.
As Mao Cheng said, she is equally powerful as the BOSS and has not been greatly affected so far. The ghosts and monsters that are lower level than the BOSS - the fox fairy, Zhang Pozi, and Wang Niu - have almost no lethality in front of her. Only the grave nursery rhymes that serve as a rule level are a threat.
In fact, the biggest threat to her now is the "villain" in her mind that affects her emotions.
Did the mood swings start with this dungeon? Xu Wei wasn't sure. Perhaps her mood had changed a long time ago, but it was too subtle or she had gotten used to it. People always grow and change while completing dungeons, making it difficult for people to notice.
Xu Wei even speculated that the seed had been planted a long time ago.
He went through the dungeons and transit stations and influenced Mao Ming without her even noticing. The other party must have enormous power to be able to do this.
If it's more exaggerated...
The Judgment Hotel was attacked, the Yuhuan Death dungeon was upgraded, and the Paradise Escape suddenly reached its exhaustion period...
Why are there always problems in the copies where she appears, and even the transit station that claims to be absolutely safe is invaded?
She frowned and looked up at the sky.
It is a huge creature that exists outside the earth and in the starry sky.
Is it “it”?
Xu Wei suddenly remembered the spider-filled underground palace in Paradise Escape, where a male voice as a "high-dimensional creature" explained his existence to her -
"You can think of me as an infinitely huge creature. My size, thinking, and abilities are infinitely beyond your cognition. In my eyes, the past, present, and future are happening at the same time, without any distinction between the first and the last. I can go to every place in time and touch any time node at will."
"It" is also a high-dimensional creature.
"It" can also travel to any point in time and change the past, present and future.
In the conversation between the male voice and her, the description of "it" focused on the huge power and the independent consciousness of each individual after being divided into countless individuals. As a researcher of interstellar civilization, Mao Cheng's focus is also on how to subdivide "it" into countless fragments and defeat them one by one.
In their eyes, "it" seems to only devour and proliferate infinitely.
So, do they know that “it” also has consciousness?
"It" is intentionally using its own characteristics as a high-dimensional creature to manipulate the timeline and influence reality.
But why did he target me?
Wang Niu's chaotic thinking made it unable to understand why the stranger in front of him had so many changes of emotions in just a few minutes, until he was finally full of resentment, but had to swallow it.
It thought about it and could only continue to kowtow as the voice in its mind demanded.
Xu Wei's knees sank again. She couldn't bear it any longer and kicked the ghost in front of her away.
Then he slapped his face to wake himself up.
I wanted to question it about the strange stories, but my emotions were too confused. Seeing its confused look, I could only grit my teeth and endure the villain in my head, and hurried back.
As soon as she stepped into the door, she walked straight towards Lu Fanye, hugged him and took a deep breath.
Familiar lime flavor.
Other players in conversation: “?”
"Ahem, we're still here..." Wang Hao put his hand in front of his lips and coughed.
Xu Wei's mind was in a mess and he didn't have time to deal with these things. He pressed on Lu Fanye and touched his hand.
After Lu Fanye was hugged, his body became stiff and he didn't move, but he didn't resist either.
Xu Wei grabbed his hand and rubbed it in front of her eyes.
Soon, the cool air flowed from the palms into the eye sockets again, refreshing the nerves.
She felt so comfortable that she couldn't help but hug Lu Fanye tightly. The latter also gently reached out his hand to support her, allowing her to lean more comfortably.
He raised his eyes to the people who were looking over curiously: "She doesn't feel well."
Everyone knew about Xu Wei's situation, so they understood it and continued the discussion.
By the time Xu Wei had recovered enough, they had finished their discussion.
Chen Yu was quite excited: "Are you ready?"
Zhang Hao raised the shovel in his hand and said, "I'm ready."
Lu Qian was very excited: "You know what, even though I have passed several dungeons, I have never dug up a grave, especially someone else's ancestral grave. It's exciting!"
After Chen Yu was excited, she became a little nervous. She came over with a shovel in her arms and said, "Sister Xu Wei, you are the only one among us who has offensive skills. You have to protect us."
"Don't worry." Xu Wei felt much better and his mood also recovered. He smiled mysteriously, "Before I came, the hatred value was already full."
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