Chapter 114 Blue Tea Island 8
"Of course I look better than you!" Lao Yang said without thinking.
Xia Bai: “…”
If you hesitate for a second, it's okay just out of politeness.
"It's not that I have a dad filter. She wanted to learn dancing and become an idol before. It wasn't just a random thought. She had the conditions." Lao Yang said: "She is very beautiful. When she smiles, she has two cute dimples. She has a good figure and dances very well."
"When I went to pick her up from dance class, the teacher often praised her to me."
"Yang Qing is the most talented dancer I have ever taught."
"You see, she is a completely different person when she dances. She deserves a bigger stage."
There was a slight smile on Old Yang's lips, and there was light in his withered eyes.
It was probably the same when his daughter danced.
He probably thought of the time he watched his daughter dance.
"I just have a bad temper." Lao Yang said, "I don't know who he got it from."
Xia Bai: “…”
Isn't it obvious that he follows it?
Xia Bai had a blank face and said bluntly: "It's up to you."
Lao Yang was not angry or surprised, and even looked a little happy. "I didn't think so before, but now I think it's just like me."
"We were both very bad tempered and we had a lot of fights in the past. After each fight, if she felt she was wrong, she would buy me a braised chicken leg and a plate of peanuts. If I felt I was wrong, I would buy her a magazine. If I was forced to admit my mistake and still felt she was wrong, I would buy her a workbook."
"Now that I think about it, she bought me a lot of braised chicken legs and peanuts." Lao Yang said, "She wasn't necessarily wrong so many times, was she?"
Xia Bai: "Well, she may be tolerant of you and take the initiative to reconcile with you."
Old Yang lowered his head and looked at his feet. "She has always been a good daughter, but when I could be a good father, she is gone."
There is a saying that goes, "A son wants to support his parents but they are no longer there."
I don’t know which one is more painful, this or Lao Yang’s.
Xia Bai looked at him, actually a little curious about how Yang Qing died, but he was afraid that if he asked at this time, Old Yang would feel even more uncomfortable thinking about her death, so he temporarily suppressed his curiosity.
He sat with Lao Yang for a while, but Lao Yang told him to go to bed. "You may have to work tomorrow. How can you have the energy if you don't get enough sleep?"
Xia Bai stood up obediently and looked at him.
Lao Yang also stood up, "Okay, I'm going to sleep too."
They both went back to their rooms to sleep.
When Xia Bai returned, Ling Changye was still with his eyes open.
He lay down beside Ling Changye, rubbed into his arms, and said, "There is no smell of blood, go to sleep."
Ling Changye hugged him, they both opened their eyes, closed their eyes and fell asleep together.
When they fell asleep, or even after falling asleep, the two of them did not smell any blood, nor did they hear any noise. They thought that nothing had happened to their seaweed house that night, but they did not expect that someone had died.
Two people died that night.
Yu Yin from Seaweed House No. 12, and the man with a beer belly from Seaweed House No. 13.
They first learned of Yu Yin's death and were awakened by Medusa's screams at around 5:20.
Xia Bai did a sit-up and sat up from the bed without using his hands and without opening his eyes.
After Ling Changye stood up, he opened his eyes and carried him down with one hand.
Only then did Xia Bai finally wake up, shake off his confusion, and follow Ling Changye out of the room.
"Vice President, save me! Save me! Please! It must be me tonight, it must be me!" As soon as they walked to the door of Medusa and Yu Yin, Medusa rushed to Ling Changye.
Seeing her companions die one by one, and today one died next to her pillow, she broke down emotionally.
It’s not her fault. Besides the threat of death, Yu Yin’s death must have also scared her.
Yu Yin died without any bloodshed.
Like Yan Quan, she was hung on the roof, but her feet were tied and she was hanging upside down. Her head should be facing Medusa's pillow, so when Medusa opened her eyes, she was facing her cyanotic face with dilated pupils.
Lao Yang and Jiang Qingfeng put down Yu Yin's body together.
Lao Yang's job is to save people. With the help of Jiang Qingfeng, he skillfully put Yu Yin down and let her lie flat on the ground.
He stared at her in silence for a few seconds, closed her eyes, and sighed, "She's probably in her early twenties."
Xia Bai knew that he saw his daughter's death in Yu Yin's death. If Yang Qing was still alive, she would be about the same age as Yu Yin now.
He walked over to Yu Yin's body, briefly examined it, and said, "She should have died of suffocation."
"Unlike Yan Quan and Fang Xiaofeng, she didn't die from blood loss." Jiang Yitong said, "But she was hung on the roof like Yan Quan, so we can point out two key points: blood loss and the suspended ceiling."
Xia Bai nodded, "Let's find out tonight whether the woman named Lu Kong that Yu Yin inquired about last night had ever been hung on the roof and done something."
He collected Yu Yin's body.
After seeing this, the devastated Medusa felt a little relieved.
Yu Yin’s death really has nothing to do with this person, and this person can really take the corpse out of the game.
When she was at her most devastated, she could hold on to any reassurance. Her companions died one after another, and she was terrified and helpless. She transferred her stronger dependence on her companions to Ling Changye and Xia Bai, and followed them closely.
Not many people came to House No. 12 this time. When they went out, they found out that someone had also died in Seaweed House No. 13. It was the man with a beer belly who had been chatting with an older woman in the village last night.
This man also died quietly. Living in the same house with him was his wife, who looked much younger than him. When they passed by, she was crying and looked a little dazed.
During the conversation, Xia Bai heard that she and the man with a beer belly came to Blue Tea Island for their honeymoon. Her husband died just after their wedding, and his death was so tragic. No wonder she was like this.
The room was full of blood, and the man with the beer belly looked like he had died from blood loss, but most of the blood was flowing out from his lower body, soaking his pants and flowing all over the bed.
Originally, no one in the seaweed house said anything, except for a woman who was patting the wife of the man with a beer belly and comforting her softly.
After seeing them coming, a boy of about fifteen or sixteen looked at the crying woman and said, "I found something."
Seeing that he was a little hesitant, Ling Changye encouraged him: "This concerns everyone's life and death. If you have any findings, just speak up. It will be good for everyone."
The boy nodded and seemed to trust Ling Changye. "Didn't we go to the statue to confess last night? I saw the deceased brother was about to be taken to the statue by the elder sister he mentioned, so I followed them to confess."
"The deceased brother confessed in front of me, and I... I secretly heard his confession." The boy said, and looked at the woman who was crying miserably.
Ling Changye: "Is the content of his confession related to his death?"
The boy nodded. Since he had guessed it, he said directly, "One of the things he confessed was that he and two senior executives in his company raped the wife of an employee in their company. He also raped the sister of a classmate before."
The crying woman suddenly stopped as if she was stuck.
The players' eyes fell obscurely on the woman, and then on the place where the man was bleeding the most.
The woman pushed away the woman who was trying to comfort her, rushed to the boy like crazy, and stretched out her hand to push him, "What nonsense are you talking about! My husband is not that kind of person! He's dead and you still want to slander him!"
The boy's father looked like a gentle and well-educated man, so it was difficult to take action. The mother immediately pushed the woman back, the middle-aged woman who had just been comforting her.
"Why are you so angry at my son? Would he lie at a time like this? It's you who didn't know people well and married a bad man!"
"I married a rotten man? What good thing is your son?" The woman screamed, "He also went to confess secretly. He also did disgusting things that he couldn't tell when he confessed in public!"
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Where did I say that? Why are you so excited? Are you feeling guilty?"
The two were about to fight, and the boy protected by the woman suddenly shouted, "Enough!"
The boy who had considered the woman's feelings when he first told her about his discovery said to her tremblingly, "How dare you say that to me? How dare you push my mom? Do you think I don't know about the shitty things you did with my dad?"
“…”
"What do you mean? You guys have been hooking up for a long time, and you've been hooking up since you were staying in the hotel for more than half a month?" The boy's mother became even more angry, and she grabbed her husband by the collar and asked, "What's going on? Tell me!"
What was originally a battle between two people turned into a battle between three people, with you questioning me and asking me to explain, and he went crazy, and there was a mess.
The boy stood behind them alone, tears streaming down his face, not sure if it was because of the pressure from the game or because he had seen too many evil people. "They are all disgusting people, all of them! All of them..."
Xia Bai and the others went out.
This was the first time that Xia Bai encountered such a bloody thing in the game, on this Blue Tea Island where sins were to be exposed.
Several people walked towards the north of the island in silence. After a long while, Jiang Qingfeng said, "Baby, Daddy will work hard to be a father who won't let you down."
Xia Bai: "...Dad, that's not necessary. I know you definitely can't do such a thing. I can tell you're being controlled by my mom."
Jiang Yitong laughed and asked, "Is it that confessing in other places doesn't work? That man confessed this matter in front of the statue, and he died because of it."
His death was more obvious than the deaths of the other three and was closely related to the thing he confessed.
"It's possible. It would only work if we confess in the confessional, but we can't enter the confessional until tomorrow." Xia Bai said helplessly, "Someone else might die tonight."
But they were not too nervous. So far, they could probably confirm that those who died in the game first were either murderers or rapists. They were all extremely evil people. Even if some of them were cold-hearted or ruthless, they had never done such a heartless thing.
This is also the reason why Xia Bai and Ling Changye did not keep watch last night and were able to sleep peacefully.
Seeing that Lao Yang hadn't come out yet, Xia Bai thought that he was probably helping to deal with the bodies again. He asked Jiang Qingfeng what he was curious about last night, "Dad, how did Lao Yang's daughter die?"
"Come to think of it, I don't know exactly how Old Yang's daughter died. It seems like she had an accident." Jiang Qingfeng said, "I just know that she must have died tragically. Old Yang was like crazy at the time."
"He was really violent at the time, and was beaten up several times and severely injured. His wife couldn't stand him and divorced him." Jiang Qingfeng was full of emotion. He was a very empathetic person. "Old Yang lost his daughter and his wife at the time. He must have felt really bad."
So, after he knew about it, he went to accompany him for a while.
"He was beaten badly, so he is the suspected murderer?" Xia Bai asked.
Jiang Qingfeng shook his head, "Maybe not. He was like crazy and suspected a lot of people at the time. He might have suspected everyone related to her daughter, so he was beaten. If there really was a murderer, he wouldn't dare to make a big deal. Go beat him up."
Xia Bai nodded.
Lao Yang really loves his daughter.
Jiang Qingfeng glanced at Ling Changye and said, "Baby, if someone bullies you, I will fight him to the death like Lao Yang."
Xia Bai: “…”
His dad is kind of cute.
Ling Changye felt the pressure of the gazes on him was very heavy, and he smiled and said: "Me too, don't worry, Dad, I will protect him and won't let you have the chance to fight to the death."
Jiang Qingfeng was struck speechless when he heard the word "Dad".
The four of them were talking as they arrived at the North Island Redemption School.
Today is another day of labor reform.
Xia Bai was assigned to cut down trees this time.
Bai Gu assigned them jobs. The older ones who couldn't do physical work did sewing and handicrafts, while the younger ones, both men and women, did physical work. Some were light, such as picking coconuts for Xia Bai yesterday, and some were heavy, such as chopping trees today. They took turns doing light and heavy work.
Yu Yin is dead, so Xia Bai can use her charm skills. He takes the opportunity to ask for clues from the two islanders who came to pull the tree.
The charm skill plus his current appearance makes it very useful for him to get information.
Xia Bai just opened his eyes curiously and asked, "Brother, I heard that there is a woman named Lu Kong who died on the ship?"
The elder brother immediately said, "Yes, how could he die on the boat? The boat is no longer usable."
"Is she having a miserable life?" Xia Bai asked.
"How can I explain this? It's their family affair. She is often beaten by her husband." said the eldest brother.
Xia Bai: "Will I be hung up and beaten?"
If this hadn't happened, Xia Bai's question would have seemed strange, but the elder brother didn't find it strange at all, "Yeah, you heard about it too?"
Xia Bai nodded and lowered his eyes to think.
In this case, Lu Kong might be the protagonist of this game. She died of blood loss, and was often hung up and beaten by her husband, which can correspond to the deaths of Yan Quan, Fang Xiaofeng, and Yu Yin. The death of the man with a beer belly can also correspond, and he can also be considered to have died of blood loss.
And their deaths can be combined into her experience, that is, her experience, her life story.
In addition to dying from blood loss and being hung up and beaten, she may have also suffered suffocation abuse, been raped by her domestic violence husband, and perhaps other tragic experiences, which will be reflected in the other people who died tonight.
She uses death to tell her story.
The search for the protagonist went smoothly this time.
It was just too smooth, without any twists and turns, and Xia Bai felt something was wrong.
Xia Bai then asked a woman who was cutting trees to atone for her sins, "Sister, do you know Lu Kong?"
The woman paused and said, "She has redeemed herself. She will be very happy in her next life."
So, her marrying that domestic violence man was also what they called atonement?
Isn't this just harming people in the name of atonement?
After the labor reform, most of them were unable to lift their legs, just like last night. Xia Bai could still walk a few steps, but he was worried about his elderly parents, so they sat down at the door to rest like everyone else.
Xia Bai was still able to speak, so he told them the news he had heard.
The psychic said: "It seems that Lu Kong is really the protagonist. Next, all of us should focus on investigating her experience. As long as we understand her experience, we should be able to complete the game soon."
Since Xia Bai had confirmed the protagonist, what he saw through the psychic communication was no longer important, so he didn't waste any more words on it.
Xia Bai said: "Isn't the protagonist's participation in this game too low?"
He agreed with what the psychic said. He had not downloaded many games, but he had read many game cases compiled by the Game Management Bureau Research Institute. He knew that according to the game routines, they could complete the game by finding a relatively complete story of the protagonist.
Some of them now have psychic powers, some can perform charms, and with so many people focusing on this, they might be able to complete it tomorrow and successfully complete the game.
Until now, they had simply heard about Lu Kong from other people, but Lu Kong had never appeared.
The psychic knew what Xia Bai was thinking as soon as he heard it, "Are you thinking that she never showed up?"
Xia Bai nodded.
Psychic: "Do you think it's so easy for the protagonist to appear? Many times she only appears when we have almost finished investigating and are about to leave the game. She may have already appeared. Those dead players were killed by her."
What he said made sense. The protagonists of Peace Medical College and Wugu Village appeared very late, especially in the Wugu Village copy. The protagonist only appeared half an hour before they left the game, completing her story and revealing the truth about the curse.
Xia Bai still felt that something was wrong, even though everything seemed to be going smoothly.
He had had this feeling of something being wrong before, but later he learned that he might have experienced a lot of games before the age of twelve, and this feeling might have come from his experience of playing a lot of games. He attached more importance to this feeling and didn't want to suppress it so easily.
He looked at Ling Changye.
Ling Changye said: "She has little to do with the theme of this game. The focus of this game is on atonement. What does she have to do with atonement?"
Jiang Yitong expressed her own opinion impartially, "Isn't she a victim of atonement? She was forced to marry a bad man like her husband by Bai Gu and others in the name of atonement, and was finally forced to death by the Bai Haixian followers.
Bai Gu and her Bai Haixian are the evil forces in this game world. Every day when we transform, we experience how vicious they are, and thus understand what kind of organization the protagonist has been oppressed by, and we can better understand her story background and understand her better. "
Jiang Qingfeng wanted to say something, but closed his mouth again.
The psychic said admiringly: "Mr. Jiang mastered the game's routines the first time he entered the game. It's amazing, that's it."
Ling Changye couldn't refute Jiang Yitong.
Jiang Yitong shared another discovery she had made, "Have you noticed that many players are not in the right mental state?"
Xia Bai looked at the other players, and some of them seemed distracted.
There was a man staring at one spot for a long time without moving.
The woman whose husband died last night was covering her ears and huddled to one side.
There was an older man who looked back from time to time.
Medusa also sat under the tree without saying a word.
Everyone looked haggard.
Psychic: "Are they not tired? They are all players who enter the game for the first time. They are scared, right? As for Medusa, it is easy to understand why she is scared."
Jiang Yitong: "I don't know if they were scared, but they probably weren't tired. I've seen many people who were more tired than them."
Xia Bai: “…”
Mom, you shouldn’t be a capitalist who exploits labor, right?
"Normal." The psychic said, "This game is very destructive, both physically and mentally. After confessing so many sins and witnessing so many deaths, how can you be emotionally normal?"
After talking about this, they had almost rested and finished eating the steamed buns in their hands. It was time to go to the village to inquire about the news.
Regardless of whether their speculation was correct or not, the mission tonight was clear: to find out about Lu Kong.
The most crucial thing is that at Lu Kong’s husband’s home, the psychic didn’t know that Ling Changye could also be a psychic, so Xia Bai suggested that he do this key task and bring his parents with him.
Xia Bai did not offer to go over, because he now had Yu Yin's skills and wanted to find the big brother who sold the boat that Yu Yin mentioned last night. He felt that he knew a lot and loved to talk.
Moreover, his family sells boats, so he should be familiar with many people in the village, and his family members may know something about it.
He and Ling Changye went to his house.
There is another key person, the one that Beer Belly mentioned last night, the big sister who took him to find the statue.
The remaining old players are Medusa and Lao Yang. Medusa's current condition seems to be unstable, so it is a good opportunity for Lao Yang, who is a professional in comforting people, to go with her.
Others went to other parts of the village to inquire.
After making the arrangements, they went their separate ways and agreed to return to the seaweed house in two hours.
As Xia Bai and Ling Changye walked over there, they asked him, "Captain, how many people did you communicate with during the day? Did you find anything?"
"Two, one is the redeemed man, and the other is Bai Gu." He knew that they would come to the village to look for clues tonight, so he only communicated with two people to save some mental energy for use at night.
Ling Changye told him about his spiritual communication. "I communicated with a man who looked healthy. Like the other sinners, I saw painful things in his soul. He was imprisoned in a dark room when he was very young."
He spoke briefly about this person in two sentences, focusing on Bai Gu.
I don't know exactly when it happened, but she looked a lot thinner, and it didn't look like she had lost weight in a short period of time. It was probably a few years after Bai Gu graduated from high school.
Bai Gu was sitting in a room with sealed doors and windows. Her skin was as white as before, even whiter than when she was in high school, but the light in her eyes was different.
It is not the bright light in a girl's eyes, full of expectation for a bright future, but a more settled and stable light.
If you hadn't seen her stroking her bulging belly, it would have been difficult to understand the look in her eyes.
She touched her belly and looked at the window that was sealed with wooden bars. The sunlight leaked in through the gaps between the bars and fell on her face one by one.
Ling Changye couldn't tell whether there was love in her eyes, or what the light in her eyes was.
But this scene was deeply imprinted in her soul. If he had to categorize it, and if there was no tragic event that he had not seen before, he would have classified it as the first time he saw it in Bai Gu's soul, a warm and precious period of her life.
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