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Several people walked down the mountain, and everyone had a little cold sweat on their back.

"Have you ever thought about why the child was alone in the mountain?" Yang Si's voice trembled a little.

They invited the little boy to go down the mountain with them, but he refused without any expression on his face. Now thinking back, the scary thing is not why he was so strange, but why he was alone in the wilderness in such a dark night.

Thinking about it now, it’s really scary.

As they walked down the mountain, they were facing the ruined temple. The temple was brightly lit with candles, but it also had a gloomy atmosphere. There was a dark red curtain hanging in the main hall, and the light was clearly visible outside, but there was no light on the stone steps outside the temple. They could vaguely see a hunched person sitting on the stone steps.

The figure looked very familiar to Ruan Jiyan. She took a step forward to investigate, but was stopped by someone. "What are you doing?"

Yang Si had a strange look on his face and looked at her with half-closed eyes.

Ruan Jiyan looked back at her, but when she turned around again, the figure was gone, so she could only wave her hands and said, "It's okay, I'm dazzled."

Yang Si was a little suspicious. He looked in the direction she was looking at, but saw nothing. Then he took her arm and walked towards the village.

When they arrived at the groom's house, it was already completely dark. A boy walked up and inserted the key into the brass lock. Then there was a click and the lock opened.

When he opened the door, thick dust blew in his face. Yang Si held a candle in his right hand and covered his face with his left hand, unable to help coughing a few times.

After the dust had settled, several people walked in one by one. After the three of them put the candles together, the room became much brighter.

The room in front of me has more things than the one outside, but they are all very old.

Ruan Jiyan approached the wooden bed, squatted down and looked at the bedside table, on which there was a pen and a yellowed old photo.

She first picked up the pen and took a look at it, and found that the black outer shell of the pen had fallen off a little, revealing the yellowed iron sheet caused by oxidation.

When I opened the pen, I could smell a strong scent of ink. The tip of the pen was slightly separated and there were some dried ink stains. It should be that the ink was bleeding when it was still usable.

Just as she was about to pick up the photos on the bedside table to look at them, she heard a boy say, "Here is a photo album."

As he said this, he bent down, reached into the large wooden box, and took out the photo album.

The photo album was covered with a thick layer of dust. Yang Si reached out to take the album handed to him by the boy, slapped it hard, and then wiped it twice before he could see the words on it.

Yan Ping.

Just two characters, I wonder if it is the name of the owner of the album. It is a good name.

However, after opening the album, I found that the man in every photo was wearing a white shirt and gray overalls.

Every photo is like this, and he looks like a gentleman if his head hasn't been cut off.

"Why is this man's head cut off in every photo?" Yang Si murmured.

Ruan Jiyan squatted in front of the bed, raised his head and listened to them talking, with a confused look on his face.

"Ruan Jiyan, take a look at whose photo that is on the bedside table. Is there a head?" Yang Si pointed at the bedside table in front of her and reminded her.

Ruan Jiyan immediately picked up the photo. There were no signs of cutting on the photo. Yang Si thought there was a face in the photo. He walked back and found that the man's face in the photo was scratched by something and his appearance could not be seen clearly.

"The faces in every photo have been cut out. What on earth would make someone do this?" Several boys also took a look and started discussing.

Ruan Jiyan stared at the photos in a daze, she always felt that something was strange.

[Host, have you made any new discoveries? ]

[I didn't discover anything new, but this man gave me a strange feeling, as if I had seen him somewhere before.]

[He hasn't even shown his face, how come you feel like you've seen him before? Could it be... that you two had a connection in your past life?]

Ruan Jiyan was speechless: [In such a tense and serious atmosphere, you still playfully smile at me. Only you, the system, can do this. ]

[It is my responsibility to provide comfort and relaxation to the host in a tense atmosphere. 】

[Thank you, I don't really need it. ]

Seeing that she was not in high spirits, the system stopped joking and just gently reminded Ruan Jiyan: [Host, you might as well pay more attention to it, maybe this will be an important clue. ]

The system prompted in time. Ruan Jiyan's eyes lit up and when no one was paying attention, he put the photo on the bedside table into his coat pocket.

They stayed here for a long time without triggering the mission announcement, so they had to go back to the bride's house.

Several people couldn't guess what time it was, but when they arrived at the bride's door, the hostess had just finished cooking.

She didn't know where the six people had gone, so she could only stand at the door and wait for them to come back for dinner.

The hostess's enthusiasm made several people feel a little embarrassed, but she said nonchalantly: "Why should you be embarrassed? We are all family. Besides, maybe I will ask you for help in the next few days."

She smiled happily, and the kindness on her face was obvious, as if she really treated them as family.

A few boys were happy to follow suit. After all, if the NPC really had no ill intentions, then it would be a good thing for them.

Only two girls were still a little dazed, with doubts in their hearts. They had only known the people in this village for a few days. Unless the village was full of simple and kind people, perhaps they would be so nice to outsiders like them whom they had only known for two days.

What's more, this game is not a friendly one, and they even suspect that these villagers may have some conspiracy.

But the two of them did not express their worries in the end. Perhaps they would have to stay here for several days. At least they had to stay with them until the mission was completed. Speaking out unconfirmed speculations now would only cause embarrassment to both parties.

There wasn't anything they needed help with today, but they also hadn't made any progress in their search for clues.

The six people were all relatively open-minded. They all held the mentality of making money as long as they could in this game, so they didn't get discouraged even if they didn't gain much. They just washed up and fell asleep.

Lying on the bed, Yang Si turned over and looked at Ruan Ji Yan. He wanted to say something, but in the end he moved his lips and closed them again.

"Just say whatever you want to say." Ruan Jiyan saw her hesitant look and spoke.

Yang Si hesitated for a moment, but decided to speak out.

"I don't know if it's my illusion, but I always feel that this family is too nice to us. They even say that we are all family." Yang Si scratched his head with an expression of incomprehension.

"It's not that they are bad, but I always feel that it is not a good thing." Seeing that Ruan Jiyan had a blank expression on his face and didn't know whether he was listening to her or not, she added another sentence.

"I know." Ruan Ji Yan said this, and Yang Si was stunned for a moment.

"And then, nothing else?" Yang Si asked her with a frown.

"Go to sleep first." She just said this, I don't know if she understood it.

There was light in their room, but it was pitch dark outside.

The system prompted Ruan Jiyan that there was someone outside their house. They didn't know who it was, but they said inside that this was not a good thing.

However, Ruan Jiyan couldn't give Yang Si a clear hint and could only interrupt her confession.

Seeing that Yang Si was somewhat dissatisfied and was about to say something else, Ruan Jiyan had no choice but to slowly put his index finger to his mouth and made a gesture to keep quiet.

Fortunately, this time Yang Si understood what she meant. His eyes widened for a moment, and then he looked understanding.

The two of them suddenly fell silent. The man outside the house listened for a while and when he realized there was no sound, he left.

After that, the two of them didn't say anything else and prepared to have a good sleep.

At some point in the middle of the night, Ruan Jiyan had a dream. It was not a nightmare and there was nothing scary about it, but Ruan Jiyan would feel a chill on his back whenever he thought about it.

In the dream, Ruan Jiyan didn't know where he was. He only saw big and thick willow trees all around him. The sky was dark and foggy, and visibility was not high.

Like a cage, Ruan Jiyan seemed to be spinning in the same place even after walking a long way.

Then, she vaguely heard some sounds, like a child crying or a woman sobbing.

All of a sudden, the sky became completely dark, but Ruan Jiyan could see things more clearly.

She was in a willow forest. Under each willow tree was an earthen grave with a wooden board inserted on it. However, there were no inscriptions on each board. Perhaps they were all deserted graves.

Then, she came to the groom's house where they were going today.

This time the door of the room was opened automatically. Ruan Jiyan stayed there for two seconds, then walked forward step by step with some caution.

When I reached the door, a man wearing a white shirt and dark grey suspenders suddenly came out of the house.

It seemed that he was still smiling, but Ruan Jiyan tried hard to see his face clearly, but in the end it was in vain. It seemed that the more Ruan Jiyan tried to see clearly, the blurrier it became.

The first words he said startled Ruan Jiyan: "Dear..."

As he said this, he was about to walk over and hold Ruan Jiyan's hand.

Ruan Jiyan wanted to run, but her body was frozen in place and couldn't move. But just when he was about to touch her hand, Ruan Jiyan was able to move again. By the time she reacted, she had already run out quickly.

It seemed as if she saw the loving smile on his face turn twisted and cunning in an instant at the last second.

Then, she came to another dream.

The sound that sounded like a child crying had not stopped yet. She walked forward step by step in confusion, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

Finally, she stepped over a fire pot, and after taking two more steps, she saw a big red sedan chair, and the crying sound seemed to come from inside.

Ruan Jiyan walked forward step by step, his hand touched the red curtain of the sedan chair, and he gently opened the curtain.

She was sure that the crying sound came from the woman in the sedan chair. The moment she opened the curtain, the woman who was sobbing with her head down suddenly lifted the veil and looked up at her.

Her eyes were wide open and her pupils slowly dilated.

The woman in front of her was actually herself!