Chapter 65 Wugu Village 8
Before they approached the stilt house, Ling Changye and the others heard Liu Fu's heart-wrenching screams.
He woke up, and it was unclear whether the cry was due to itchiness or pain, but it was probably both itchiness and pain.
Mixed in with the screams were the helpless and sad cries of a woman. The stilt house was soaked in misery and was on the verge of collapse.
The three of them arrived at the right time, and Liu Fu's wife regarded them as a life-saving straw. She cried and shouted: "Help, doctor, please save him!"
The window was open, and the room was still filled with a strong smell of blood. The floor had obviously been wiped by a woman, but the clean floor could not change the disgusting condition of the room. A skinless bloody man on the bed was screaming miserably, and the sheets were soaked in blood, the original pattern could no longer be seen, and there were tiny sticky things on them.
"Please save him." The woman sat on the floor and cried desperately.
Ling Changye said: "We may be able to save him, it depends on whether you can cooperate."
"Cooperate! We will cooperate!" The woman had no choice but to say, "As long as we can save him, we can do anything!"
Ling Changye walked over to Liu Fu and tied him up more securely with adhesive bandages as he screamed heartbreakingly. They had already tried it on Su Mao, but since he had no skin on his body, this was no longer a wound that could be healed, but it was better than using a strip of cloth.
The adhesive bandage can speed up wound healing, but it cannot stop the itching. Liu Fu was still itching and scratching his heart and lungs, feeling extremely painful. However, he seemed to feel some effect of the bandage and looked at Ling Changye for help.
"I said this morning that there is someone in our medical team who understands curses and can break them. Did you hear that?" Ling Changye said.
"I heard it! I heard it!" the woman said hurriedly.
Ling Changye looked at Fu Yuqing and said, "She's here."
Fu Yuqing said: "I know a little about curses, and I feel that your strange disease seems to be cursed. Are you willing to let me try?"
The woman didn't agree immediately, she just asked, "How do I try?"
"You don't need to do anything to try it. All I need is a little blood from the bed sheet. Mainly, I want to see if I can break the curse. If there is a way to break it, I will need your cooperation."
No one suffering from a strange disease or their family can refuse this, and there is nothing to lose by giving it a try.
Under their gaze, Fu Yuqing took out a piece of yellow talisman paper, smeared some blood and flesh on the bed, blew on the yellow talisman paper to light it, put the talisman paper in front of his face, let the fireworks from the burning talisman paper float to his face, and closed his eyes to feel it.
Her brows furrowed more and more, and Liu Fu and his wife became more and more nervous.
The fire that was burning brightly suddenly went out. Fu Yuqing suddenly opened his eyes with a look of panic on his face.
Liu Fu and his wife were so nervous that Liu Fu didn't even cry out for itchiness at that moment.
Ling Changye smiled when he saw this. For the superstitious villagers who believed in the curse, it was better to tell them the treatment method directly than to be mysterious about it.
The more mysterious, the better the effect.
The woman asked, "Master, no, doctor, what's wrong?"
Fu Yuqing quickly put away her panic and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I can't help it."
“You did!” Seeing her like this, the woman panicked even more. She immediately knelt on the ground and hugged her legs. “Please, he’s going to die, what should I do!”
Liu Fu on the bed also looked at her with his bloody eyes wide open, with a painful and pleading expression.
Fu Yuqing said awkwardly: "I saw four words, Xue Ligu, insect."
Liu Fu opened his eyes wide, and so did his wife, who hugged her legs tighter.
They all knew that Fu Yuqing was not a deceptive charlatan at all, she really had the ability.
Liu Fu, in particular, believed it firmly. He scratched frantically at the beginning because he felt there were many bugs on his body, but he did not tell anyone about this.
He was shaking desperately on the bed, trying to scratch his itch and also trying to ask Fu Yuqing for help, "Please, save me! I'll do anything!"
Fu Yuqing said awkwardly: "This curse is too powerful. How about you first tell me the specific situation of you and these four keywords? I can't guarantee that I can break it."
Liu Fu was silent for a few seconds, just a few seconds. When he saw Fu Yuqing heaved a sigh of relief and was about to open his mouth, he immediately shouted in extreme pain and itchiness: "I'll tell you! I'll tell you!"
When Xia Bai and Jing Yan were asking about the crux of the problem, the village chief arrived.
The village chief asked, "What are you talking about?"
He came at a very good time. Jing Yan immediately looked at his inner thoughts: "I will drive them away. What did Tian Quan say about He Chunhui!"
There is indeed a problem.
Xia Bai said with a blank face: "What else can we talk about? Talk about strange diseases and curses."
The village chief said: "Tian Quan is not sick, why did you talk to him?"
Jing Yan: "Just a casual visit, we are about to leave."
The village chief narrowed his eyes and stared at them. He smiled, revealing a mouthful of sharp yellow teeth. "Can't you see any problem with the sick villagers? That's why you're wandering around asking around? If you can't see any problem, leave early. My wife is tired of cooking for you guys every day."
“…”
Xia Bai said sincerely: "You really love your wife."
village head:"……"
Jing Yan said hurriedly: "Let's go, let's go quickly. Village chief, let's go to Wang Er's house to see his condition."
They wanted to visit Wang Er's home, especially to hear what Wang Er's son had in mind.
"Let's go." The village chief said, "I also want to go. I'll go with you."
When I came out of Tian Quan's house, it was around 10:30 to 11:00 in the morning, and the sun was shining brightly.
Jing Yan wiped the sweat off his face and said, "I didn't expect it to be so hot at this time of year."
"It's like this when the sun comes out. We're fine on the mountain, but if it were down there..." The village chief pointed to the dirt road and the wind and rain bridge at the foot of the mountain, "Without the shade of the trees, it would get you sunburned."
Xia Bai looked down the mountain and saw a number of wind and rain bridges, which seemed to be surrounding Wugu Village.
The stilt houses in Wugu Village are in line with the Feng Shui concept of having the back leaning against the ground, and there is no obstruction in front. Even so, they are still afraid that the good fortune will flow away, so they built a wind and rain bridge to block it. What they block is not only the good fortune, but also the strange disease, and perhaps something else.
When they went to Wang Er's house, they met Lin Xiang who came hurriedly. When Lin Xiang saw the village chief, he smiled brightly and said, "Good afternoon, village chief."
The village chief nodded to him and asked with a squint: "Where are you going now?"
"I was just taking care of a sick companion in the building. Now that I see his condition has stabilized, I hurried here to join the main team in treating the villagers," said Lin Xiang.
The village chief asked in surprise: "Is the condition stable?"
"Yeah! Now I stopped scratching and fell asleep." Lin Xiang said: "Luckily, if we couldn't even save our companions, we would have no face to go back."
The village chief said with a wry smile: "It seems that you should be able to cure the villagers as well."
"It should be no problem." Lin Xiang asked Xia Bai: "Which villager should we treat now?"
Xia Bai: "Let's go to Wang Er's house first. If we can make it before lunch, we can go to the homes of other sick villagers."
Lin Xiang nodded, "Let's go then."
On the way to Wang Er's house, Lin Xiang leaned close to Xia Bai's ear and whispered to him about their findings, including the slander and ways to reduce the curse.
Xia Bai's eyes lit up slightly and he gave Lin Xiang a crooked thumbs up.
Lin Xiang touched the back of his head and laughed.
The village chief looked back at them. Lin Xiang smiled at him, then ran to Jing Yan in front of him and whispered in Jing Yan's ear.
“…”
After learning the new clues, they changed their strategy. With the village chief following them, they couldn't coerce or bribe the villagers. If the village chief really followed them, he would take the village chief to the homes of the villagers with strange diseases to see what they were thinking, so as to give Ling Changye the convenience of no one to disturb him.
The first family was Wang Er’s who fell from the building.
Wang Er hadn't woken up yet, and his wife didn't see much misery, as she was cooking pig food downstairs. She didn't see their son at home.
Jing Yan said, "Let's go see Wang Er."
Taking the opportunity to see what she was thinking: "What's so good about him? He should just die."
What she said was, "It's still in that room. Go and see. I can't leave here."
The village chief asked, "Are you awake?"
She said: "No, she has been unconscious."
Perhaps because he heard that Wang Er was unable to speak, the village chief did not follow him.
Lin Xiang asked: "Do you want to purify it? Do you want to try it?"
Xia Bai: "Don't waste it. We just need to wait for Liu Fu's illness to get better. That will be more useful than anything else. The villagers will come to us on their own initiative then."
They walked the village chief around like this for more than an hour. The village chief finally got annoyed and saw that they were doing nothing, so he left under the pretext of going to buy groceries and cook for them.
Xia Bai said: "Let's go to Li Gui's house."
Li Gui was the first villager they visited who had a splitting headache, and that day Lin Xiang slightly relieved her headache.
On the way there, Lin Xiang thought about the people with strange diseases he had purified. He could only alleviate some of the symptoms for each of them. It was a bit strange, so he expressed his doubts, "It's not ineffective, but it's not completely effective either. Why is it like this?"
Xia Bai: "Part of this illness is a mental illness. Can mental illness be cured?"
Lin Xiang: "Then what can I alleviate? Can a curse be considered pollution?"
Xia Bai wasn't sure either. He also felt that there might be something hidden in it, but he couldn't explain it clearly at the moment.
Coincidentally, when they went there, Li Gui was having a headache. It wasn't as severe as the one she had that day, but she was still holding her head and banging it against the wooden wall. When she saw Lin Xiang, a little light flashed in her dry eyes.
She still remembered that when she was in the most pain, it was Lin Xiang who relieved her headache.
Xia Bai felt that their trip might not be in vain.
He believed that Ling Changye would succeed, so he became a little bolder. After Lin Xiang relieved Li Gui's headache again, he asked her: "Are you going to continue to suffer like this? How many times can you hit your forehead?"
Li Gui slowly raised his head, "What do you mean?"
Xia Bai: "Don't you plan to break the curse and end your headache?"
Li Gui looked at Xia Bai blankly, "Can it be broken?"
Lin Xiang said: "I know how to relieve your headache, do you think we know how to solve it?"
Li Gui was a little excited for once, "How do we break it?"
Xia Bai said calmly: "Tell me whether you have ever slandered Xue Ligu, and whether it is related to your headache."
Li Gui opened his eyes a little wider, "You... I... I didn't slander her!"
Xia Bai: "If you don't want to say it, you can tell me who in the village you know has slandered her. Then your curse will be broken."
"I really didn't slander her!" Li Gui stood up and reiterated, "Why would I slander her?"
Xia Bai was slightly stunned, thinking that since she was so angry, it was possible that she really had never slandered him.
Jing Yan immediately looked at Li Gui's inner thoughts: "How did I slander her!"
After reading it, he was also stunned. She didn't lie. She really didn't slander Xue Ligu.
Lin Xiang still believed in their speculation and said, "Sister, don't get excited. Tell us about the false accusation against Xue Ligu by others. This is really the way to break the curse. You won't lose anything if you tell us about it, and you won't have to worry about it in the future."
Li Gui calmed down a little. She seemed to believe Lin Xiang and frowned as she began to think.
"No," she said after a few minutes, her frown deepening.
"How could it be?" Lin Xiang said in a daze, "There are so many people in Wugu Village, and no one has ever slandered her?"
"No!" Li Gui said loudly, as if everything she had suppressed for a long time was released in her broken voice. "We are still slandering her? She has done us a great disservice. If it weren't for Doctor He, our entire village might have been wiped out!"
"Xue Ligu, Xue Ligu is a grass witch who harms people." Liu Fu said in a hoarse voice.
After saying this, he began to struggle frantically on the bed again, feeling so itchy that he wanted to give up his life. This time, tears came out of his eyes, as if he was venting the grievances that had been pent up for a long time.
His wife said for him, "Uncle Li, the most prestigious person in our village was killed by her. If it weren't for Doctor He, we wouldn't have known about it and would have been deceived by her. She used poisonous insects to harm people in our village for fun. Our Liu Fu was once poisoned by her and was almost bitten to death."
Fu Yuqing was stunned. They had already ruled out the possibility of poisoning, so how come a grass ghost appeared?
If Xue Ligu is the grass witch who uses Gu to take revenge on the villagers, Lin Xiang should be able to purify the Gu in their bodies.
"We didn't lie, it was true. If we were to talk about the relationship between Xue Ligu and the insect, it was that she used the insect to bite our Liu Fu to death." Liu Fu's wife said: "We swear to heaven that what we said is true. We dare not lie about the curse."
"We have said it, we have said it, do you think it can be cracked?"
They were so afraid of cursing that they really didn't dare to lie, but how could it be possible? It was completely different from what they had guessed.
Moreover, they had no idea how to break the curse.
It was at this time that Qiao Youlin arrived like timely rain and told the three of them their discovery.
Ling Changye asked Liu Fu: "Have you ever slandered Xue Ligu?"
Liu Fu shook his head back and forth four times, and was in agony, "No, no! I didn't!"
Fu Yuqing asked, "What about others? Has anyone else in the village slandered Xue Ligu? Your curse was caused by her hatred and grievances. You only need to name someone who slandered Xue Ligu and tell her how he slandered her. Then your curse will be broken and you won't have to suffer so much."
The two of them immediately started thinking about it.
A few minutes later, Liu Fu's wife looked up and looked at her hatefully: "You deliberately didn't break the curse for us, didn't you? You have bad intentions! How could anyone in our village frame her? All of our villagers are going to be killed by her!"
"Get out! Get out now! We don't need you anymore. I'm going to tell the village chief that you have bad intentions!"
When Fu Yuqing wanted to say something, he was almost pushed down by Liu Fu's wife who suddenly jumped up. She seemed to have countless grievances and anger, and drove them out with a broom.
"Get lost! Don't come here again!"
The four people who were kicked out were a little stunned, especially Qiao Youlin.
"How could that be? It should be correct." He said "How could that be" three times.
When they put forward this speculation in Diaojiaolou, they really thought they had found the core clue.
Ling Changye was the fastest to return to his normal self. "It should be one o'clock. Let's go eat first and sort out the clues with the other players."
At this time, Xia Bai, Lin Xiang and Jing Yan had just been kicked out not long ago.
The two groups of losers met at the village chief's house and ate in silence amid the village chief's sarcastic words, just like useless distant relatives who were eating and drinking for free at the village chief's house.
After lunch, they shamelessly packed up another portion.
This one is for You Yue, who is still taking care of the patient in the stilt house.
You Yue was sitting expressionlessly under the stilt house, poking an ant nest with a wooden stick. When she heard footsteps, she looked up and said calmly, "Su Mao didn't hold on. He died."
"How could it be?!" Lin Xiang said in surprise, "Wasn't he much better before I left?"
Qiao Youlin grabbed his hair and said painfully, "Our speculation was wrong. We can't break the curse by telling others about someone else's false accusation. It's over. We've taken the wrong path. We've been exposed."
Lin Xiang said: "But he does seem to be much more sober."
"It could be a last gasp. When he admitted his crime, it was equivalent to confirming the curse. The curse was completely established and he was dead for good." Qiao Youlin said: "Fortunately Liu Fu didn't do it or say it, otherwise he would have died too, and we would have been driven out by the village chief."
Ling Changye looked at You Yue: "What exactly is going on?"
You Yue lowered her head as always, "You guys go up and take a look."
When he saw Su Mao and the bed he was lying on, Tao Baobao covered his mouth and ran out to vomit.
It was obvious from the torn bandages that Su Mao had gone mad. He broke all the bandages that bound him and began to scratch him frantically. The only things left on his body, the dandruff-like things piled on the bed and floor, and the bloody marks on the wall showed how hard he scratched.
He scratched many blood vessels.
This not-so-big cedar room was filled with blood and flesh, like a bloody hell.
"Where is Qi Yan?" Jing Yan asked.
Xia Bai stood beside Qi Yan and said, "He is still alive, but his breathing is weak. He probably won't last much longer."
After Tao Baobao finished vomiting, he slowly sat down, leaning against the wall. Qiao Youlin also leaned against the wall dejectedly. No one in the room spoke anymore.
They were too confident before. Not to mention clearing the level, they even thought about clearing it ahead of time. They were also convinced of their own speculations, thinking that they had been to so many dungeons in total, and the routine of this village dungeon could not escape their imagination.
The game gave them a painful and bloody slap in the face.
Ling Changye wiped his hands with a wet tissue, took out a bottle of perfume from somewhere, and sprayed it a few times at the window. Miraculously, the bloody smell in the room became much less, as if it had been decomposed and turned into a fresh and refreshing herbal fragrance.
He said, “Let’s sort it out a little bit.”
After the oppressive and suffocating smell of blood turned into the fresh breath of the mountains, the players felt less suffocated in their chests, and seeing him so calm, they slowly recovered from their depression.
"Liu Fu said that he never framed Xue Ligu. Is this true or false?"
"It's true." Jing Yan said. He no longer hid his ability. "Li Gui from our side also said that she didn't frame Xue Ligu. I used my skills to check and confirmed that she didn't lie."
Ling Changye: "Liu Fu and the others said that Xue Ligu was the evil grass witch who harmed their village. Is this true or false?"
"I can't be sure about this. I haven't detected it." Jing Yan said truthfully: "Li Gui also mentioned this. In that context, I don't think she was lying."
Tao Baobao supported this point with his hoarse voice, "It's not like Liu Fu and his wife were lying. At that time, they believed in Sister Fu's curse. They were eager to break the curse and dared not tell lies."
That's the crux of the matter.
When we first entered the village, the village chief mentioned the strange disease and said that the villagers believed it was caused by a curse.
They attributed the strange disease to two reasons: a curse and a poison. The villagers said it was a curse, so they were inclined to believe it was a poison. When Lin Xiang used his purification skills, they ruled out the poison and locked on the curse.
Qi Yan and Su Mao's illness also confirmed that this was some kind of curse bound to life experience, which was consistent with the game's usual gameplay.
If it is a curse, they tend to think that the villagers did something bad to the protagonist, so the protagonist cursed them in revenge. They think it is a curse, which also proves this point, and they may be guilty.
Su Mao's account directly confirmed that only when one does extremely bad things will one be cursed, and the curse is more specifically related to slander.
Then, based on Su Mao's improvement, they speculated that the curse would be broken by telling someone about the slanderous, cursed thing that the other person did.
Now, obviously, there is something wrong with their reasoning.
What went wrong?
Fu Yuqing: "Let's go back through the chain of logic and start with the most recent inference. Will telling someone that they are cursed really break the curse?"
"No." Ling Changye said: "We should first confirm the most important point, whether Xue Ligu was really a grass ghost who harmed people in the past. Without confirming this point, everything else is just castles in the air."
Qiao Youlin: "Haven't we already confirmed it? Jing Yan said Li Gui didn't lie."
Jing Yan said accurately: "I only confirmed that she did not slander Xue Ligu. Later she said that Xue Ligu harmed their village, which was just a guess."
Fu Yuqing: "How do we confirm it?"
Xia Bai said, "You can find Tian Quan. He naturally mentioned Dr. He and seemed to have no defenses against him. Li Gui and the others mentioned that it was Dr. He who saved them from being harmed by Xue Ligu. This is a good starting point. Moreover, he didn't have any strange disease, wasn't involved, and his attitude was very neutral."
After Xia Baiyi's analysis, Tian Quan is indeed the most suitable person to test in this village.
They discussed it for a while and decided to confirm this key point first.
In order to prevent the two patients from spreading their story throughout the village and causing them difficulty in moving, they calculated the time and set off immediately.
It was Xia Bai and Jing Yan who went again. They said they came to thank everyone for what happened in the morning.
Jing Yan said, "We just heard from other villagers that half a year ago there was a grass ghost woman in your village who almost harmed your entire village. Thanks to Doctor He, it seems that he has really realized his value by coming to Wugu Village."
After saying that, he immediately looked at Tian Quan's inner thoughts and said, "Oh! That's right!"
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