It doesn't seem unreasonable for insect swarms with diverse diets to demand visually appealing food in order to stimulate their appetite.
But Gu Xinghe still couldn't figure out the real reason why the insect swarm wanted handsome men to come to the town.
After all, Blanco and Sandy were clearly just people affected by the swarm, not actual insects.
However, it can also be said that this influence, as previously mentioned, will gradually deepen until a true transformation is achieved.
It now appears that the residents of towns like Blanco and Sandy have begun to learn the survival principle of "seeking advantage and avoiding harm".
This can be seen from the very strange and low-quality payment given to the visiting detective by the townspeople.
They hired private investigators from outside, and in fact, they had long since given up the idea of completely eliminating the insect swarm.
They simply wanted to use this as bait to create a plausible background and attract detectives from the outside world.
To deliberately use rare and common items as payment for employment.
They also didn't want to attract people with powerful backgrounds or exceptional abilities.
It is obvious that only those without background or ability can be easily manipulated and dealt with by the people in the town.
It could even be said that if it weren't for players who are randomly forced into game instances...
If someone were to hire a detective to investigate such a dangerous incident for the price of ordinary grain, Gu Xinghe would very much like to say something—
With so little money, it's difficult for me to do anything for you.
In any case, the detective who came to investigate the town of Wheatfield earlier.
There may be genuine professional detectives, and perhaps many of them are just players pretending to be detectives.
But now, this town seems like a monstrous beast that devours the lives of all outsiders.
At this moment, perhaps the remaining rationality in human consciousness is still at work.
Perhaps it's because there's still some time before the final three-day deadline.
At this point, Blanco and Sandy reluctantly led the way.
Gu Xinghe and his group of four finally arrived at the wheat field in the town.
It was autumn, but the golden wheat fields that should have yielded a bountiful harvest now appeared barren.
This is not because the growers have already harvested, but because monsters have harvested before them.
At this moment, Blanco and Sandy stood silently to the side, watching Gu Xinghe and Chu Liang enter the wheat field to observe.
Chu Liang, on the other hand, followed behind Gu Xinghe in silence.
He seemed to do whatever Gu Xinghe told him to do, without touching or messing with anything else.
[Hilarious! I would never accidentally touch something and attract any taboo things.]
[Don't cause trouble, don't touch anything recklessly! I'm going to survive until the dungeon ends!]
It reminds me of how in horror movies, there's always a minor character who accidentally touches something, causing everyone to fall into a trap.
At this moment, Chu Liang became even more certain of his inner thoughts.
Upon hearing this, Gu Xinghe also thought—
For a new player just entering a game instance, the other party's awareness is quite commendable.
If you encounter game instances like [Rose Manor] and [Misfortune Tavern] that are more survival-oriented or work-oriented...
It's possible that Chu Liang will actually manage to survive this situation.
Unfortunately, the instance we're currently entering clearly doesn't have this tendency.
Furthermore, it requires players to actively solve puzzles and explore the mysteries.
It could even be said that if Gu Xinghe and Chu Liang hadn't entered this instance together...
Instead, it was just Chu Liang alone, and he chose to stay in the assigned house every day.
Three days later, Chu Liang will probably be carried away by the people of the town and sent to be fed to insects.
He turned his gaze away from Chu Liang, who had been following behind him.
Gu Xinghe then began to observe the wheat field that had been completely devoured—
The so-called crop circles mentioned in the background information of the game instance.
It is actually a strange pattern formed by the unevenly tall wheat stalks left behind in this ravaged wheat field.
From Blanco and Sandy's inner thoughts, Gu Xinghe could tell that after each insect plague incident...
Wheat fields that have been completely devoured by insects, leaving only a few stalks, will all develop the same pattern.
But in their memory, this strange pattern did not seem to have caused any eerie events.
Moreover, even if the town suffers from insect infestations that lead to crop failure each time.
But the townspeople, who will have to continue farming, will soon level this wheat field.
The so-called crop circles will disappear quickly, and then normal crops will be planted again.
In this light, the pattern appears to be merely a mark left behind by the insect swarm after they have finished feeding.
Now, walking on this now bare wheat field.
Gu Xinghe was able to discover that there were still many live insects or their corpses remaining here.
It gives the impression that they were accidentally left behind here while following the main insect horde.
At this time, the insects that had been left behind to gnaw on the crops were either clinging to the wheat stalks or picking up a few scattered grains from the ground.
Compared to the dense swarm of insects they saw at the base of the wall in their house last night.
At this time, the insects left behind in the wheat field are much sparser in terms of density.
One can imagine the "spectacle" when swarms of black insects swept in from afar during the insect plague.
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