Chapter 64 Wugu Village 7
Su Mao suddenly clearly remembered the scene of meeting Sun Zhen in the Internet cafe.
It was an early autumn night with a gentle autumn breeze. It had just rained and there were a few yellow leaves floating on the wet cement floor. She was wearing a thin dark brown sweater and holding a white bag that was taller than the trash can, but she still stood on tiptoe out of habit to pick up the bottles in the trash can.
The Internet cafe was noisy, filled with the smell of cigarettes, instant noodles, ugly and violent cursing and the sound of keyboards slamming, and it was stuffy and restless.
He sat by the window at the computer and glanced outside, catching a glimpse of the coolness after the early autumn rain, coming from the people and the scenery.
He watched Sun Zhen picking up trash, and he didn't know where the urge to throw the bottle out came from at first. When he realized it, the bottle had already rolled to Sun Zhen's feet.
Sun Zhen was stunned for a moment, stared at the bottle for a few seconds, then looked up at him. Her eyes were like the early autumn sky, not so bright, but cool and clean.
Something seemed to start moving.
This scene often appeared in his later life, again and again, and he was tortured to the point of being almost numb.
But this time it was different. Sun Zhen, who was standing there, had countless lice growing on her body. She also turned into a louse. The swarm of lice was like a stream of black water, flooding over the wet concrete floor, passing through the window, and completely submerging him.
Su Mao felt an excruciating itch.
He regretted it, and he never did anything bad since then. But just for this one thing, is he going to pay with his life?
"Help, help me! Help me!" He screamed hard, "Lice, so many lice! She came... to take revenge on me."
Xia Bai pressed his temple hard, "Do you know what happened? What are the details?"
"School violence, I said she was picking up trash, said, said she had lice, which led to her being bullied at school, she died, died... Save me, save me!"
Lin Xiang's face was already covered in sweat, "Xia Bai, I can't hold on any longer!"
Ling Changye reached out and knocked Su Mao unconscious.
Several players inexplicably followed suit and went from not daring to breathe to breathing heavily and relaxing.
"It turns out it really is a curse!" Tao Baobao said, "The villagers guessed correctly. They are cursed, and Qi Yan and Su Mao are cursed as well. But the villagers are cursed by someone. They were cursed by different people in their past lives. Is this true in this game?"
Fu Yuqing: "Can you guarantee that you have not been cursed? Everyone has been cursed, so why did their curse come true?"
Lin Xiang immediately said: "I feel that Xia Bai has never been cursed. He is still young, has very little life experience, has no desires, and has no conflicts of interest with others. No one would curse him."
“…”
Veins on Fu Yuqing's forehead were about to pop out. "Even if he won't be cursed, what about you? Even if you won't be cursed, Captain Ling must have been cursed, right? Why are all of you living in the village chief's house fine?"
Lin Xiang said hurriedly: "Sister, don't be angry, I'm just answering your questions obediently. I know we are now trying to find the connection between Su Mao and Liu Fu's curse."
“…”
Fu Yuqing didn't want to talk anymore.
Lin Xiang had no choice but to continue: "Several of us may have been cursed, but today is the only one whose curse came true. His curse may be the same as Liu Fu's curse, and it may be related to itching and bugs. It is unlikely that he will lead to a school riot, but a village riot is still possible."
"Liu Fu is obviously itchy. I feel the deeper connection is the insects. The village chief has repeatedly mentioned that there are many poisonous snakes and insects here, and the actual environment is consistent with this."
Jing Yan: “That’s right.”
This time, Xia Bai also felt that what Lin Xiang said made sense and nodded.
"What else could it be? Did they kill someone with poisonous insects?" Lin Xiang continued to speculate, "Including Dr. He, they killed him with poisonous insects?"
Xia Bai reminded him again: "The person who cursed may not be Dr. He."
Lin Xiang: "It could also be Dr. He's lover. She saw Dr. He being bitten to death and cursed the entire Wugu Village."
Xia Bai: “…”
Fu Yuqing caught Xia Bai's words and asked, "If it's not Doctor He, then who is it?"
Xia Bai looked at Jing Yan. They had already decided not to hide any clues other than privacy. Even if they wanted game rewards, it was okay to share them. Whoever discovered it first could not be changed.
Jing Yan said: "I got a name from the villagers, Xue Ligu."
"It's obviously a woman's name. She could really be Dr. He's lover!" Lin Xiang said immediately.
“…”
"We seem to have found some clues, but what's next? We still can't stop ourselves from being cursed. One player still dies every night." Tao Baobao was a little worried. She asked hopefully, "Can't we usually save ourselves if we find clues? Or can we just wait to die passively?"
Lin Xiang scratched his head and said, "Maybe we don't have many clues yet."
Tao Baobao: "What should we do? The clues on Su Mao seem to be useless."
"Why is it useless?" Ling Changye said, "Thinking the other way around, we don't necessarily need to find commonalities between Su Mao and Liu Fu. We can also use him to target Liu Fu."
Lin Xiang: "What do you mean?"
Xia Bai: "That is to say, we have now found out that the worm from Su Mao is the key to their curse. We also know about Xue Ligu. We can go back to Liu Fu to get some information. He is in so much pain, doesn't he want to be saved? We pretend to find out the cause of his illness and let him tell us more."
Ling Changye: "This is to find out the truth behind it and the direction of the relative attack."
"And guarding is to crack our cursed route and save our lives. The clues provided by Su Mao are not enough, so we can try this method on Qi Yan again."
Xia Bai nodded: "We can also visit other villagers again, especially the one who knows Doctor He."
Fu Yuqing: "Very good, a combination of offense and defense. We can work in groups today to do these things. If we still can't find the key clues, we can go to the secret building tomorrow."
A few of them were discussing here, and Jing Yan participated in it while habitually observing the people around him.
He saw You Yue standing at the window without saying a word. She looked out the window with extremely calm eyes, as if she didn't care at all about what they were discussing, and as if she knew everything.
Jing Yan was really curious about her, so he read her inner thoughts: "The sunlight is so dazzling."
Jing Yan: “…”
After the discussion was temporarily over, they went to the village chief's house for dinner. It was a little late when they arrived, and the village chief's family had already finished eating. No one knew where the village chief had gone.
It was already past eight in the morning when they finished their meal. Without wasting any time, they immediately divided into groups to look for clues.
Needless to say, Lin Xiang had to go and ask Qi Yan. When asking Qi Yan, he would need his purification ability. Qiao Youlin and You Yue stayed in the stilt house with him.
Jing Yan was the most popular one. Whether he went to Liu Fu who was sick in the morning or to the villagers who had Doctor He in their hearts, they all seemed to need him. In the end, he went to the villagers with Xia Bai and Erwa who had forced his way over, while Ling Changye, Fu Yuqing, and Tao Baobao went to Liu Fu.
When entering the village, Jing Yan saw that the villager who had the doctor in mind was named Tian Quan, who lived in the stilt house No. 8 in Wugu Village.
They thought of many ways, such as how to act. Outside the No. 8 stilt house, they said a lot of foreshadowing words loudly before mentioning He Chunhui, the name of Dr. He that Jing Yan had found out from Deng Jiahao. Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Tian Quan called them in directly and asked them if they knew Dr. He.
Knowing that the villagers were not as wary of Dr. He as Xue Ligu was, she did not expect that he would take the initiative to speak up.
Jing Yan said: "We are not very familiar with each other. We just met at a medical exchange meeting and talked about a medical topic. How come, brother, do you know about this too?"
This was something he and Xia Bai had discussed. They knew nothing about Dr. He except his name, and if they said they were very familiar with him, it would be easy to expose their true identity.
Tian Quan didn't understand what he was talking about, such as medical exchange meetings and medical topics. He didn't want to go into details and just said, "Doctor He has been to our village. He is very good and helped us with our illnesses."
"He's quite good." Xia Bai said, "Is he treating you strange diseases?"
Tian Quan: "Of course not. There was no strange disease at that time. He had already passed away."
They were both stunned. They didn't expect Dr. He to leave like this. They didn't know if Tian Quan lied to them.
Is it necessary to lie to them like this? If they really did something to Dr. He, they could just ignore them or say they didn't know Dr. He.
Xia Bai asked: "What disease did he cure you?"
"He was like a volunteer teacher who came to our village to help us with medical treatment. At that time, villagers who were sick would go to him and he would cure whatever he could. People in our village respected him very much."
I didn't expect to get into a dead end.
Xia Bai continued to ask, "When did he leave?"
At the same time, Jing Yan looked at Tian Quan's inner thoughts.
His inner thoughts were the same as what he said, "Half a year ago, in May."
Xia Bai glanced at Jing Yan, and Jing Yan nodded to him.
Xia Bai asked again: "Are the villagers satisfied with him? Are there any areas where they are dissatisfied? We can pay attention to that."
Tian Quan was silent for a few seconds, lowered his head, and clenched his fists. "He...is not dissatisfied with anything. Even if there is a problem, it is our village's problem."
Lin Xiang and the others entered the room where Qi Yan and Su Mao were. Qi Yan was originally sleeping next to Qiao Youlin and Su Mao's room. After Su Mao also fainted, they moved them to the same room so that they could observe them at the same time.
Qi Yan was still in a coma, lying motionless on the bed with his brows tightly furrowed.
Lin Xiang touched his forehead and said, "He has a high fever. I don't know how long he can hold on."
He was very pessimistic and felt that Qi Yan might not be able to hold on any longer. Although his wounds were forcibly healed by bandages and there was also blood tonic medicine given by Ling Changye, he always remembered his missing intestines. Not only the intestines, but his other organs might also be injured.
Lin Xiang didn't even dare to force him to wake up.
Qiao Youlin: "Try to purify him first."
"My purification ability is useless for high fever." As he said this, Lin Xiang had already started to purify Qi Yan. It did not wake him up, but his brows were not furrowed as tightly.
Qiao Youlin took the opportunity to try to wake Qi Yan up. He tried shouting at him, pinching his nose, and pinching his temples, but all failed to wake him up. He had no other choice but to press hard on the bandage on Qi Yan's abdomen.
“Hmm!——”
Qi Yan let out a muffled groan, a layer of sweat immediately broke out on his forehead, and he half-opened his eyes.
Qiao Youlin asked him excitedly: "Qi Yan! Have you ever done anything that could easily lead to a curse? Something related to your injury, or money or gambling!"
Qi Yan's half-open eyes were lifeless, as if he didn't hear what he said at all. Soon he closed his eyes again and fainted.
“…”
"No, Lin Xiang, I feel like even if he opens his eyes he is not conscious, we can't ask him anything." Qiao Youlin said disappointedly, "Why don't you go to Captain Ling?"
When Ling Changye left, he told them that they also needed Lin Xiang. If Lin Xiang could find out something from here, they should go to him immediately. If they couldn't find out anything, they should also go to him.
While Lin Xiang was hesitating, Su Mao next to him suddenly sat up.
Even though they knew that it was Su Mao who was alive, they would still be shocked to see a bloody person sitting up. It was during this shock that Lin Xiang thought of a solution, "We can ask Su Mao, doesn't he know Qi Yan?"
When Fu Yuqing asked Su Mao whether Qi Yan wanted to gamble or not, Su Mao also answered. It was obvious that they knew each other, but they just didn't want to let others know for the time being.
Qiao Youlin: "Yes! Let's try it!"
Su Mao didn't need to be woken up at all, he was already awake, probably because of the itch. He started scratching himself frantically again. Unlike in the early morning, this time he felt pain. He screamed miserably while scratching, which was very painful to hear. But he couldn't stop at all, it was too itchy, so itchy that he couldn't bear it.
The ropes that bound him were right next to the bed, and Lin Xiang and Qiao Youlin immediately pinned him down and tied him up.
"Itchy! Itchy! Let me go, let me go!"
"I'll stop the itch for you right away." Lin Xiang said as he began to purify him from his forehead. "Su Mao, think carefully about whether Qi Yan has done anything that might be cursed, related to money, and his injury."
"Hurry up and tell me, or I'll stop!"
Just like before, Lin Xiang's purification had some relief for his itch. His face was no longer so itchy at this time. He urgently needed Lin Xiang to relieve the itch on other parts of his body, so he tried desperately to recall it, shouting, "Yes, yes, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, don't stop!"
In his buzzing mind, he hurriedly searched along the thread of memory, and he really found something that might have influenced Qi Yan's curse, and it was also related to money.
He and Qi Yan did know each other. They were classmates in high school and college, but he and Qi Yan did not have a good relationship in high school because Qi Yan did something in high school that he was very resistant to at the time.
After graduating from junior high school, he moved to another city to attend high school just to forget about Sun Zhen, but he didn't expect to encounter a similar thing in high school.
Of course, this time it had nothing to do with him. He had never done that kind of thing again in his life. The protagonists of this incident were Qi Yan and a boy named Du Xinhui.
To put it simply, Qi Yan hated Du Xinhui for some reason and said that he stole class funds. He took the lead in denouncing him, scolding him, and even dragged him into the toilet to smear his shit on him.
Later, Du Xinhui made up the class fees by using the money from selling his kidney.
They knew he earned the money by selling his kidney because he fainted in class one day.
He had no channels and no friends, so he sold his kidney to a black-hearted dealer he found on a toilet note. The dealer said he was only selling one kidney, but took both of his kidneys away without his knowledge.
He has no kidneys.
"It's the kidney. Qi Yan's injured kidney!" Su Mao said excitedly, "It must be the kidney. When he was in high school, he said that a boy stole his class funds, and that boy sold his kidney to make up for it!"
After saying this, Lin Xiang began to purify his entire body.
Maybe it was because of the relief from telling all the sinful secrets of Qi Yan and himself, but under Lin Xiang's purification, Su Mao felt a lot more relaxed and not as itchy, although he still felt the pain.
"Thank you, thank you." He said to Lin Xiang while gasping for breath.
Qiao Youlin said in surprise: "Lin Xiang, this treatment is much better than last time!"
Lin Xiang was stunned for a moment and asked Su Mao: "Is it better than this morning?"
Su Mao was no longer crazy and mad. It was obvious that he was much better than in the morning. He said conscious and clear-headedly, "Yes, it's still very itchy and I really want to scratch it, but I can endure it under the suppression of pain. It just... hurts, it hurts so much."
Lin Xiang's fingers behind his back trembled.
But, but, he was not nearly as purified as he had been in the morning.
His purification skill is not infinitely usable, it is bound to his body and mental strength.
In the morning, in order to get clues, he almost exhausted himself to purify him. He never lied to Xia Bai. When he told Xia Bai that he couldn't hold on any longer, he really couldn't hold on any longer.
Even so, he only kept Su Mao awake for a few minutes, and he was still itchy to the point of unbearable during those few minutes.
The time was too short and he hadn't recovered yet. He had purified Qi Yan first. The effectiveness of the skill he used to purify Su Mao just now should be less than one-fifth of that in the morning. However, Su Mao not only woke up, but also didn't feel so itchy anymore.
What's going on?
While Lin Xiang was thinking, You Yue, who had been standing by the window, suddenly walked over.
She looked down at Su Mao lying on the bed, the hair on both sides of her cheeks sliding down as she moved, covering her eyes. Lin Xiang and Qiao Youlin could not see her expression, they could only hear her slightly hoarse voice.
"Did that junior high school girl really have lice?"
"Did that high school boy really steal the class funds?"
Su Mao, covered in blood, should be a very scary person, but when he looked up at this man who had hardly spoken and whose hair covered most of his face, leaving only a small part of his eyes and half of his bloodless lips that kept opening and closing, he suddenly felt an inexplicable, unspeakable terror.
Her voice sounded like a judgment coming from nowhere.
"Did that junior high school girl really have lice?"
Tears dripped drop by drop onto the diary filled with tiny joys, and she said, "It was you who put the lice on me, Su Mao."
"Did that high school boy really steal the class funds?"
With his hands on the dirty and smelly toilet floor, he kept backing away until he reached the corner of the toilet. He looked up at the people approaching him and said, "You took the money, Qi Yan."
That judgment-like voice blurred time and space. The three voices merged into one, rushing towards him in waves amid the sound of dripping tears and sobbing.
"Answer me." Lin Xiang said, "Answer You Yue's question. Do you feel that I can heal you? Reply quickly so I can continue."
He didn't know why You Yue suddenly asked this question, but You Yue was Xia Bai's friend, so he must stand on You Yue's side and help her.
"No, no." Su Mao said, "She didn't have lice. I put them on her to change her deskmate. Later, I don't know why she really had them. That boy shouldn't have stolen the class funds. Maybe Qi Yan used them. He was afraid of being suspected, so he put the blame on the most unsociable boy!"
He saw You Yue, who was hanging her head, and her lips moved, revealing a barely perceptible arc that he couldn't tell whether it was a smile or something else.
Lin Xiang was already jumping up and down, "Good fellow! You! You are the one who did this evil thing! It was you! You even deliberately led the school to violence! How shameless of you!"
Especially when he heard him say "the most unsociable boy", Lin Xiang was so angry that he even cursed.
At that time, Xia Bai was the most unsociable boy in their class, and he had been bullied before. Lin Xiang even thought that Xia Bai might have been bullied too because he didn't have a junior high school like him. After all, he was thin, small, and weird, and looked easy to bully.
"What did being a loner do to you? You just pick on the weak classmates who don't fit in, right? If you have the guts, go and bully a bunch of your friends!"
Qiao Youlin felt that what Su Mao and Qi Yan did was too bad, but he didn't expect Lin Xiang to be so angry. He quickly pulled him aside and asked, "Why is You Yue asking this?"
Lin Xiang was not an emotional person. He took two breaths and looked at You Yue, "Does this mean that the curse is more accurately a slander? The curse comes from the person who was slandered and framed?"
You Yue lowered her head again. "I was just asking out of curiosity. I didn't expect this. Why don't you ask Xia Bai?"
"Yeah!" Lin Xiang said excitedly, "Maybe You Yue accidentally asked a key clue. I'll tell Xia Bai and Captain Ling right away!"
Lin Xiang ran to the stairs and was about to leave when You Yue said, "Lin Xiang, look, is Su Mao better now?"
Lin Xiang looked back, and Su Mao also turned to look at him. You could tell from his eyes that he was clear-headed and indeed much better.
This was also the point that puzzled him just now, "What's going on? Qi Yan is not well yet, but he is much better. I didn't purify him much."
You Yue: "You can also ask Xia Bai about this question. Tell Xia Bai in detail what you did and what he did."
"Oh oh oh!" Lin Xiang was walking while organizing what he wanted to say to Xia Bai. Suddenly he stopped and slowly opened his eyes. "He talked about Qi Yan. Could it be, could this be the way to break the curse?!"
If you tell someone about something that another person has done that is cursed, your own curse will be lessened.
If we say that those people with strange diseases in Wugu Village have done something worthy of being cursed, they are very secretive about the curser and never talk about it, so their curse will never be lifted until they die of increasingly serious diseases.
Makes sense!
The cursed man wanted them to either be tortured to death by the strange disease or expose each other's sins.
If they want to break the curse, they have to tell everyone about the things that others have done that are worthy of being cursed. Will they still unite and keep silent?
What will become of Wugu Village?
When Lin Xiang thought of that scene, his heart skipped a beat. "This is a very useful clue for them, and for Team Ling as well!"
"Then both of you go and tell them the clue separately." You Yue said, "I'll watch them here."
Su Mao: "Don't..."
"Okay!" Lin Xiang and Qiao Youlin said at the same time, suppressing Su Mao's voice. They immediately went to look for Xia Bai and Ling Changye excitedly.
You Yue stood at the stairs and watched them run away. She turned back slowly and met Su Mao's eyes surrounded by blood.
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