Chapter 110 Blue Tea Island 4
"What atonement?"
Medusa was puzzled. "Use marriage to atone for your sins?"
"Yes, I can't think of any other way to atone for my sins," said the bride.
Yu Yin felt that the bride's attitude had slightly changed. She glanced at Medusa and signaled her not to talk nonsense.
She wiped away her tears, and her eyes became even redder. She stared at the bride's miserable legs and said, "But what crime can my sister commit? Did they force you to do this?"
"No." The bride fell silent after saying this, and had no intention of continuing to speak.
Yu Yin didn't seem to be in a hurry to ask, she just stretched out her hand carefully, "Sister, does it hurt? Why do you have to suffer like this?"
As she spoke, tears began to fall again.
Medusa is a bit annoying.
She was annoyed with Yu Yin, the green tea girl, and also annoyed with the timid woman like the bride, who didn't even run away from such a ridiculous wedding. Even if she couldn't escape, she would die with them and kill the groom's entire family.
But maybe the weak just believe in tears, or maybe Yu Yin's skills worked. When the bride saw her like this, she shed a few tears of sadness.
Her hands were placed on her legs, and the bright pearl rings on her fingers made the red and purple needle holes even more dazzling.
"I am guilty. They didn't force me to do it. I came to Blue Tea Island on my own initiative to atone for my sins."
“…”
Yu Yin's expression almost couldn't hold back. She lowered her head to wipe her tears and asked, "Sister, why?"
"You were not there on the day I confessed." The bride said, "In fact, everyone on the island knows it, so it doesn't matter if I tell you again."
"My mother died when I was born. When I was eight years old, my father fell from a building and broke his leg, becoming disabled. They used to say that I was unlucky for my parents, but I didn't believe it. Later, my father became stupid again, and then I realized that I was not unlucky for my parents. I just had sins on me."
"I need to atone for my sins, otherwise my family will suffer retribution and will not have a good end. If I don't atone for my sins and reincarnate with them, my next life will not be good either, and I will continue to live a miserable life."
The bride said: "So I took the initiative to come to Blue Tea Island to atone for my sins."
“…”
Medusa and Yu Yin were both silent.
The bride was also silent, and no one knew what she was thinking.
For a moment, the room was quiet.
The first to speak was the bride. She stared at her legs and asked softly, "Don't you believe that your sins will be punished on you, your future self, your next life, and your family?"
Medusa and Yu Yin opened their mouths to speak, but for some reason they closed their mouths again.
Yu Yin, in particular, thought the bride was funny at first, but when she thought of Yan Quan who was hanging on the roof and died tragically, she suddenly felt that what the bride said seemed to be the rules of this Blue Tea Island, just like the truth of this world.
"Of course you believe it too." The bride touched the needle on her leg with pain but ease, as if it was her relief. "Otherwise you wouldn't come here. Outsiders come here to atone for their sins. This is the Island of Atonement where Bai Haixian is."
Wedding scene.
The players found a place to have their meal. As soon as they sat down, the woman in white came over and looked at them one by one with a faint gaze.
She looked to be about 40 years old. Her skin color was different from most people on the island. She was not tanned by the scorching sun. Her skin was white but loose, and her sagging nasolabial folds made her look serious and scary. Even her lips were white.
"Are you the new group of people?" She spoke very slowly and with a strange tone.
"Enjoy your meal." She smiled, and without waiting for their reply, she said, "This is one of the few great meals you'll have on Blue Tea Island. After you finish eating, go to the north of the island to atone for your sins."
Before the players could figure out what was going on, the old man hurried over, bowing his head and saying, "Don't worry, Aunt Bai, I'll take them over right after they finish eating. I brought them here because I want them to learn first."
The woman called Bai Gu nodded and walked away leisurely.
Behind her, two people carrying the statue of Bai Haixian immediately followed.
Seeing them walking away, the old man turned around and his expression changed immediately. "Eat, eat quickly! I'll give you half an hour."
Fang Xiaofeng asked: "Where is the northern part of the island we are going to?"
The old man was a little annoyed. "Why are you asking? You'll know soon. I haven't even finished eating yet."
The old man walked away cursing.
“…”
Xia Bai had never worked before, but he felt that this old man was very much like the old-fashioned scoundrel he had heard about from others. Instead of doing his job, he would flatter his superiors.
Not long after the old man left, Medusa and Yu Yin came back.
Yu Yin told them in detail what they had learned from the bride.
Medusa made a vomiting expression.
Fang Xiaofeng also told the two of them about what was happening on their side.
Xia Bai: "No wonder the old man said last night that it was his family's wedding. The bride is not his biological daughter, but she got married in his family because of the custom of crying at weddings."
"If she was their own flesh and blood, how could they bear to treat her like that?" Jiang Yitong said.
Xia Bai glanced at her and lowered his head to eat his rice.
Yu Yin glanced at Ling Changye inconspicuously, "So the theme of this game is atonement?"
"The bride said this is the Island of Atonement, and we will go there to atone our sins later. It seems to be the case." Fang Xiaofeng said.
His face was not very good. He remembered what Yu Yin said when they buried Yan Quan. But fortunately, there was a way to atone for sins in this game. It was just that it should be more difficult for them to atone for their sins than for others.
Because the old man said that they only had half an hour and there was not much time left, Medusa and Yu Yin ate in a hurry. As a result, another half an hour passed and the old man still didn't come. He was sitting at another table enjoying other people's flattery.
“…”
An hour later, the old man took them to the north of the island.
When they were leaving, they saw the groom walking impatiently towards the bridal chamber. Not long after, as they were walking towards the north of the island, they seemed to hear crying again, full of sorrow and despair.
The so-called north of the island is the north of Blue Tea Island. It takes less than ten minutes to walk from the village. This island is not very big.
There is also an endless sea on the north side of the island. The water reflects the color of the sky. It is beautiful and vast. However, if you look at it for a long time, you will easily feel lonely and panic, as if you will be abandoned by the world forever.
In such a state, humans, as social animals, will involuntarily seek companions, wanting to be recognized and accepted.
This may be the reason why Blue Tea Island is called Blue Tea Island.
It is not a closed mountain village, nor is it the Wugu Village surrounded by wind and rain bridges, but in a sense, it is more closed and solidified than Wugu Village.
The buildings in the north of the island are not the seaweed houses in the south, but wooden houses, gathered in a place that looks like a school.
As soon as they walked through the gate, they felt like they had walked into a miserable world. Many people here were abnormal. There were disabled people, mentally retarded people, seriously ill people, and deformed people. Of course, there were normal people as well, many beautiful girls, and men who looked very elegant at first glance.
They all sat cross-legged in a place that looked like a playground. In front of the playground was a huge statue of the White Sea Fairy. On the platform under the statue, Bai Gu was sitting there. Next to her stood an unusually short person, and no one knew what she was doing.
Seeing them come in, Bai Gu said, "It's just right that this group of new people can also participate in this confession."
The old man immediately took them to the front row of the playground and asked them to sit cross-legged and listen carefully.
Bai Gu continued, "I know that you may be like this person, you were miserable from the moment you were born, and you were destined to be miserable for the rest of your life. Maybe your life seemed good at first, but you encountered one tragic accident after another. Maybe the tragedy didn't happen to you, but it happened to your loved ones, which is worse than it happening to you."
She spoke here even slower than at the wedding, and her tone was even stranger, not like the tone of human speech.
"Have you ever thought about why? You work harder and are more careful than others, but why is your life still so miserable, while others, who do nothing, have a happy life easily?"
"Because of sin!" A loud answer was heard on the playground, and the miserable people had bright eyes and firm expressions.
Bai Gu raised her chin slightly, "It's because of sin."
"Because you carry the sins accumulated from past lives on your shoulders, sinners deserve to suffer."
"Because of your sins, your relatives will be implicated, and your life will be miserable. If you do not atone for your sins, your next life will be just as miserable, or even more miserable."
Bai Gu asked: "So, do you know what to do?"
"We must atone our sins!" The voices on the playground became more determined and full of fighting spirit, soaring straight into the bright sky.
It seems that they are willing to do anything for their family and for their next life.
Among these fearless people, the players dared not speak out.
Bai Gu's face was expressionless, just like the statue of a deity, she said, "Next, please go to the confessional if you want to confess today, including the newcomers who came last night."
After she stood up, the old man hurriedly said to the players, "Hurry up! Hurry up and catch up!"
The old man hurried over to Bai Gu and said, "This group of newcomers are just like the newcomers who came before. They are lazy and gluttonous. They are so slow to eat."
“…”
Bai Gu didn't say anything. She took the player and two other people into the confessional, but didn't let the old man in.
The confessional and the outside world seemed to be two different worlds. The sun was shining brightly outside, but the confessional built in the basement had only a few faint candlelights from candlesticks, illuminating the hideous statue of the White Sea Fairy, which seemed to be peeking at them with eyes in the dimness.
This reminded Xia Bai of some not-so-pleasant memories from idol 404.
Fortunately, sister Xue Mu is not here.
The players followed the example of the other two and sat down in front of the statue.
Bai Gu hadn't come over yet, so Jiang Yitong whispered to a girl next to her, "What are we going to do?"
"Repent." The girl's voice was also low. "The first step to atonement is to confess in front of Bai Haixian. That is, tell him all the sins you may have committed in this life. You cannot hide them."
As soon as she finished speaking, Bai Gu held a sharp candlestick and sat next to the statue. She swept her eyes around them and said, "Let's start. Who will confess first?"
The girl who was talking to Jiang Yitong just now went upstairs first.
This incident came suddenly and the players were not prepared.
What are the sins of man in this life?
Most people will think about the evil things they have done in their lives. If they have not done anything evil, then some bad things may also count. How can a person live a lifetime without doing something dirty?
But saying these things in front of everyone is a bit inhumane.
"I have been jealous of my younger brother since I was a child." The girl stood up and started speaking without thinking. She spoke very smoothly, as if she had practiced it countless times.
"My parents favored him more, all the time. During the Chinese New Year, they bought him two new sets of clothes, while I was still wearing my cousin's old cotton-padded jacket that had patches on it."
"He was showing off in front of me, so I pushed him into the lake in a rage. I didn't think anything would happen, thinking that the ice on the lake would just make him slip. Unexpectedly, the ice cracked and he fell into the lake. After he was rescued, he had a high fever for several days."
The girl bit her lip. When she looked at the statue, her eyes turned red. She didn't know if it was because of shame or some other reason. "I am so vicious. I have such a vicious heart. That's my own brother."
"Then, I went to middle school. Our math teacher was a top-notch teacher. All the students in the class liked him very much. He chose me as the math class representative and trusted me very much. I often corrected papers with him. One day, he closed the door of his office and touched me while saying he liked me."
"I didn't do anything the first time, but after it happened so many times, I couldn't stand it anymore and told my parents about it. They beat me up. I had no choice but to write a letter to the Education Bureau."
"The math teacher was fired, his family was broken up and his wife and children left him. My classmates all excluded me, saying that I slandered the teacher and hurt such a great teacher so badly. I went too far. He just touched me, but I caused his family to be broken up."
The girl's tears fell one by one and gathered into a small puddle at her feet.
Her voice was also tearful. "Later, I was finally able to make money on my own and got a boyfriend. I treated him very well and saved money to buy him the things he wanted."
"He was secretly dating a girl in our factory dormitory. That girl showed off the brand-name skin care products he bought for her in the dormitory. I was so jealous that I secretly added lime water to her skin care water, but the lime water didn't dissolve. She found out and my boyfriend beat me up. I resisted and beat him up until my scalp was bleeding."
"I am so jealous, I am so ugly, I am so vicious."
…
The players listened in silence.
They didn't hear any sin, they only heard the misery of a girl from childhood to adulthood. Can a girl's resistance be called a sin?
According to this standard, does a person have to be perfect and without any fault to be considered sinless?
The girl confessed her "sins" in front of the statue by tearing open her scars. After what seemed like a very long time, it finally ended.
Xia Bai looked at Bai Gu who was sitting next to the statue. For the first time, he saw a hint of a smile on her face, which was very subtle.
The second person to go up was another person from the previous batch, also a woman.
A middle-aged woman with a haggard face and only one complete arm and only the upper part of the other arm.
She was much calmer than the girl. She didn't shed any tears the whole time, and not even her eyes were red.
"I killed my grandmother because her stay in the nursing home cost $120,000 a year, and no one paid for her before, except me."
"I was almost suffocated by the money. The other day I saw the photo of my uncle's family buying a car and saw them smiling so happily. When I went to the nursing home, I saw my grandma buried in the toilet and drinking water happily. I wanted to kill her."
"I'm mentally twisted and I'm a pervert." She said expressionlessly, as if she had become numb.
"I killed my child. My husband got drunk that night and was tricked into losing hundreds of thousands of dollars. He came home drunk and laughing. I aborted the baby the next day. I didn't let him see the world. I was so cruel."
“I’ve stolen bags.”
"I've robbed blind people."
"I've smashed other people's luxury cars."
…
She confessed her sins one by one without any expression, then kowtowed to the statue and came down.
Bai Gu had no expression on her face. She said, "Next."
Next up is the player.
They didn't know whether they should really confess their sins during this confession.
The theme of the game is atonement. It seems that you really have to confess all your sins. If you don’t, you may not be able to atone for your sins and may be punished.
But will it be okay if you tell it? Everyone wants to hide the things they have done wrong for fear of others finding out. Who would want to tell it out loud?
No player stood up, all wanting to see how others were doing.
Xia Bai looked around and saw that no one seemed to want to get up, so he stood up and walked to the statue.
Bai Gu said: "You just arrived, I remind you to tell the truth. If you don't tell me what sins you have committed and Bai Haixian finds out, I can't help you."
Xia Bai nodded, "Aunt, don't worry, I will tell you the truth."
Bai Gu frowned, "What's your name?"
Xia Bai: "It's more intimate to call her aunt without the last name."
He learned this from Lin Xiang, who often called her sister, brother, or aunt.
Lin Xiang said that this was what his parents, who were both big names in business, told him. They were friendly and easy to get close to.
This was the first time Xia Bai used this method to get close to an NPC.
Bai Gu said coldly: "Call me Bai Gu."
Xia Bai said blankly: "Oh, Aunt Bai."
Bai Gu corrected his address and then said, "Let's get started."
Xia Bai immediately spoke seriously, "My first sin was to ruin the studies of a former classmate."
It sounds like school violence.
School violence is extremely hateful and relatively common. I just didn’t expect that such a beautiful and lovely girl would also be subject to school violence.
"I skipped from the first grade to the third grade in primary school. A classmate in the third grade looked down on me and said that I would never be able to keep up with the learning progress. He also asked me to call him brother and he would teach me. A month later, I skipped to the fifth grade. He was deeply shocked. Then I skipped to the sixth grade and soon ranked first in the class in the high school entrance examination. He was hit again and again and lost the motivation to study. Later, he even failed to get into university."
“…”
What a campus bully from a top student.
"I have grown up and made amends for this. When I heard that he didn't get into college, I took my good friends to visit him and introduced him to a job in a funeral home."
“…”
Bai Gu asked slowly, so slowly that it seemed as if she was speaking word by word, "Didn't you do anything more sinful than this in elementary school?"
Xia Bai: "No, after all, I only had two years in elementary school."
“…”
Xia Bai carefully glanced at Bai Gu's face and continued, "To be honest, I did. I secretly went to the funeral home to disturb the staff when I was in elementary school. I didn't feel bothered. It was the furnace worker who said that every time he was cremating a body, I would look sad, which affected his work. He was very embarrassed and his work was a bit painful."
“…”
Xia Bai continued, "In the blink of an eye, I was already in the first year of high school. Oh, I also skipped a grade in junior high school, so it was pretty quick. The most sinful thing I did in the first year of high school was that during the military training outside, I missed the cemetery very much. Oh, I forgot to confess, I really like corpses, so I sneaked out in the middle of the night and went to the cemetery to wander around."
"I saw a man at the cemetery. I thought he was a dying person dumped there by his family, so I happily carried him away. Who knew he was just a sleepwalking classmate? When he woke up and talked to me, I wanted to beat him to death. I had this thought. I am so vicious."
“…”
After Xia Bai confessed this matter, he continued, "In the winter of my senior year in high school, my grandfather died. In order to let him accompany me more, I did not bury him and kept his body at home for a long time. I was unfilial, and this is my greatest sin."
"Later, I often felt that it was my sin not to save the world."
“…”
Xia Bai sincerely confessed his life's sins to Bai Haixian.
There was an eerie silence in the confessional.
The three members of the Holy Guild all believed that she was not telling the truth, or at least she was hiding something.
Otherwise, why didn't she say that she had an affair with her boyfriend's boss not long after her boyfriend died? It's very likely that they had an affair before her boyfriend died.
And now she is the psychic's sweetheart, and the psychic will definitely help her pass the game, so it is the psychic who instructs her not to tell the truth and conceal her sins, otherwise she would not confess all these messes so calmly.
The three of them knew how to confess this time.
Bai Gu seemed unconvinced and asked again, "Is that really all? If you conceal anything, you will be punished by Bai Haixian."
Xia Bai's eyelashes drooped slightly, casting a fan-shaped shadow in the dim candlelight, and she pursed her lips.
Bai Gu saw something and said, "If you don't tell me, your sin will become more serious and will be carried over to your next life."
Xia Bai looked up at the statue and said, "There is indeed one more thing. I don't remember ever being with my parents. I probably made them suffer for a long time. Moreover, I didn't recognize them when they were not far away."
Jiang Qingfeng, Jiang Yitong and Lao Yang raised their heads at the same time.
The three of them stared at her for a long time.
The girl stood in front of the ferocious statue of the White Sea Fairy. Her expression was not so lively, but more pious and holy, as if she was facing not an evil god, but a god of truth, and was praying for something.
She looked to be about twenty years old.
Around twenty years old.
The three of them looked a little dazed.
Jiang Yitong turned to look at Jiang Qingfeng and saw that his eyes were red again, even after so many years, and this time, it was not in the dead of night when there was no one around.
Just as she was about to pull his hand, he had already stood up.
Jiang Yitong panicked, thinking that he was going to go back to his previous behavior of randomly recognizing his own son. Then she realized that the girl had already come down and it was time for the next person to go up and confess.
She became even more panicked. They didn't know whether this confession was about confessing real sins.
The girl just now probably didn't confess her real sin. She is the girlfriend of that unfathomable man and may know some inside information of the game.
This means that it may be safer not to speak of actual sins.
As for Jiang Qingfeng, she knew that he would truly repent even if he knew the danger.
This matter was like a heavy mountain that had been weighing on his heart for too long, and he needed a break.
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