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Beep—the sound of the game system rang out.
[Dungeon: "Village Strange Tales" Mission has been opened: 1. Investigate the strange things happening in the village 2. Find the lost companions.]
[Mission Rewards: To be unlocked (Complete the mission to get rich rewards)]
Ding ding—Ruan Jiyan’s personal system sounded.
[Game Instance: Village Tales]
[Difficulty level: B (medium difficulty, low mortality rate)]
[Player/NPC name: Ruan Jiyan/Lin Hong]
【Level: Level 17】
[System Tasks: Hide NPC identities, hide true strength, find and solve bugs]
[Mission Rewards: To be explored (the more you help players, the richer the rewards)]
[Player's initial health points: 50 points (your mental power is continuously polluted, and although your sanity value is decreasing, fortunately, your life is not in danger at the moment)]
[The game mission has been released and will not be released again. Happy gaming~]
After the system voice disappeared, Ruan Jiyan was still wondering who died in her place?
"Mother-in-law, who is the person who will replace me that you are talking about?" Ruan Jiyan asked her slowly and softly, fearing that she would not be used to their acting crazy and stupid again.
The old woman did not answer her question, but suddenly smiled and murmured something.
She spoke in a low voice, as if she was chanting a spell. Ruan Jiyan didn't hear clearly and wanted to ask her again, but the old woman spoke first: "The teammates you are talking about who disappeared inexplicably are two men and one woman, right?"
"How did you know?" the boy suddenly became alert and asked in a loud voice.
The old woman did not answer his question, and Ruan Ji Yan did not doubt it, because they saw her on the day they first entered the dungeon. The two women and four men in the team must have been seen by the old woman, and now there are only two men and one woman left, so the two men and one woman are missing.
"It's getting late, and I, an old woman, need to rest. Please go back." Before the old woman told them everything, she suddenly said that she was going to sleep. Maybe there was some other hidden story.
"Then let me ask you one last question. If we want to find teammates, which one should we carefully observe?" Ruan Jiyan held her wrinkled hand and asked the last question sincerely.
“Just look for him where the accident happened. We don’t even know this.” After saying this, he walked behind the Buddha statue.
Look for the person who caused the accident wherever he happened...
That is, at the hostess's house!
Bai An listened to the conversation between Ruan Jiyan and the old woman from behind, then said after two seconds of silence: "Go to the hostess's house, you will definitely find something!"
But when they returned to the hostess's house, the three were unable to find any clues.
It seemed like the room was open for a limited time. Bai An tried to open the door of the mourning hall again but found that he could not open it at all. The spirit tablets they had seen before and the smell of burning incense had all disappeared. The scene they saw this morning seemed like a dream.
If it weren't for the room full of white, they would really wonder if they were still dreaming.
The three of them tried to open the doors of all the rooms, and finally they were able to open two of them successfully, one was the wedding room of the newlyweds, and the other was the room of the hostess and her husband.
Fortunately, the two key rooms can be opened, otherwise they might have been trapped to death in this copy.
Bai An and the other two boys walked into the couple's room first. Ruan Jiyan took a look at the new room, remembered the doubts he had that night, and turned around and walked in.
There was still a fresh atmosphere in the bridal chamber. Ruan Jiyan searched everywhere, from the sofa at the door to the closets and bedside tables inside the room, and even the bed. In the end, he only found some wedding photos, which were photos of the groom alone.
The hostess had said before that their daughter was getting married, which meant that the bride was their biological child, but after searching the room thoroughly, they only found the groom's things.
Is it because they favor boys over girls that they have already prepared so many things for their son-in-law before he even gets married?
But why is there nothing in the groom's house? Neither the groom's things nor the bride's things. Although the two have a house in the city and will eventually move to the city, it is impossible to move all their things there and never come back to take a look.
And the strangest thing is that I never see the bride, not even at her home. It's as if she doesn't exist!
Ruan Jiyan picked up the photo of the groom that he had seen before. There was clearly a large space next to him, as if it was reserved for someone.
Could it be that the newlyweds were originally planning to take a photo together, but then someone said something and the groom took the photo alone?
Soon, her guess was overturned by what Bai An and the other person said.
"Lin Hong, did you find anything?" Bai An's face didn't look good and his voice was trembling.
Ruan Jiyan shook his head in disappointment: "Except for some photos of the groom, there is nothing else."
"I have a bold guess. When we first came here, didn't the hostess tell us that her daughter was getting married?"
"Yes." Ruan Jiyan replied.
"But the photos and some of the children's clothes we found in the couple's room all seemed to belong to the groom!" the boy said excitedly.
According to what the hostess and her husband said, they have a daughter, but there are traces of the little boy everywhere in the house.
"Could it be that they wanted a little boy, so they raised their daughter as a boy?" Ruan Jiyan wanted to confirm it again.
"Impossible!" the boy shouted, and Bai An handed him a yellowed notebook.
The first page of the book shows a big name - Huang Kangwu.
This is a diary written by a child since he was 12 years old.
The first note had a few words written in crooked handwriting: Mom and Dad said they wanted a younger sister. Daneng said they didn’t like me because I was a boy.
Huang Kangwu, it doesn't sound like a girl's name. And the book also says: Because he is a boy, his parents don't like him. Combined with the fact that all the things found in the house belong to the groom, maybe the hostess and her husband are lying, they have no daughter but only a son.
So there was no trace of the bride either here or in the old house.
Yes, there is another place to look.
Ruan Jiyan said to the two boys, "Let's go take another look at that old house. Maybe we can find something there."
After that, the three of them immediately went to the old house in the village.
The old house had lost its red color from last night and had returned to its dilapidated state.
Bai An walked in first, and then the other boy followed closely. Ruan Jiyan did not go in, but walked around the house.
She had a nightmare one night and dreamt of the man, and they were both outside the house.
She seemed to remember that there was a well next to the old house in her dream. She couldn't see the man's blurry face, and she didn't remember other details, but the only thing she remembered was the well.
However, after walking around the house twice, I still didn't see the well.
But there was a big discovery inside the house.
The boy who was supposed to be waiting for the three of them at the hostess's house collapsed behind a hidden door inside the house.
Ruan Jiyan heard Bai An's voice outside the house. He no longer thought about the well that appeared in his dream and quickly ran into the house.
The boy was lying flat on the ground. When Bai An touched him, he found that his body was cold. He sniffed his breath and found that he was dead.
"It looks like he has been dead for a long time." Bai An said.
But the three men saw that the man lying on the ground was lying flat on his back, with no expression of pain or fear on his face, which meant that he was not killed by someone who suddenly appeared.