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The next morning, although there was still no sun in the sky, it was much brighter than yesterday. Ruan Jiyan felt uncomfortable lying down and wanted to turn over, but he found that all the bones in his body were about to fall apart and he was in pain all over.

She opened her eyes with great effort and found that the sky was gray when she looked up. After two seconds of reaction, Ruan Jiyan slowly stood up, and her bones cracked twice.

There were two boys lying beside him. Ruan Jiyan looked around and found that the three of them were lying randomly... next to the grave!

"Wake up, wake up!" Ruan Jiyan pushed the boy who was lying on the ground in a twisted posture beside him.

The boy groaned in pain, then rubbed his eyes and got up, "Ah... it hurts! Did someone secretly hit me in the middle of the night?"

"..." Ruan Jiyan was too lazy to roll his eyes at him again.

Ruan Jiyan stood up, patted his numb arms and legs, then looked around carefully and found that this was not the same cemetery where they had come up to look for the child.

Why are there so many graves in this village, and who are buried there?

The most important thing is that they were not here yesterday. As soon as I thought of this, the two boys behind me stood up and asked in surprise: "No, where are we? Didn't we go back to the groom's house last night? How come we are in such a remote place?"

Another boy frowned and looked worried, "No, this is not the wilderness, this is... a cemetery!"

Ruan Jiyan turned around and looked at the two of them. It was obvious that they had not yet come to their senses.

"Yes, we may have encountered something strange last night." Yesterday was the Ghost Festival, and the old woman said that people usually don't go out on this festival. But they not only walked around, but also walked to several places. Maybe they encountered something bad.

Moreover, she remembered that they seemed to have returned to the groom's house in the end, and she vaguely saw the little devil, but she really couldn't understand why she woke up in another cemetery in the end.

The players in the cloud broadcast room had never seen such a situation before, and began to speculate.

[Is this... a deserted cemetery? Weren't the three of them at the groom's house last night? Why are they here?]

[Are you three sleepwalking?]

[How could this be sleepwalking? Three people were sleepwalking, and they could walk here hand in hand?]

[The floor above the floor above the poisonous bar!]

[This is definitely not an easy task. No player has played this instance yet. I hope they can survive and at least give us some experience.]

…

The three of them quickly left and went to the hostess's house.

Walking all the way from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain, when he saw the ruined temple, Ruan Jiyan wanted to go in and take a look and ask the old woman.

But the two boys were extremely anxious. One of their teammates was waiting at the hostess's house, and the most urgent thing now was to go and see him first. At this point, no one else could get into trouble.

The three of them walked quickly to the hostess's house, only to see that the door, which had been wide open all the time, was now tightly shut. Logically, since they had gotten married yesterday, they should have returned to the bride's parents' home today. Although they didn't see the newlyweds, the fact that the door was tightly shut must mean something more serious had happened.

Moreover, the wedding was extremely strange. These people might have something hidden in their hearts.

A boy walked up and knocked on the door. Just as he was about to ask if anyone was there, he heard Ruan Jiyan's cold voice: "Just open it."

The boy looked at her and pushed the door tentatively. Then, Ruan Jiyan walked up and kicked the door open.

With a bang, the door opened, and a cloud of dust greeted me.

The three of them took a closer look and were stunned by the scene before them.

The red lanterns they had hung up and the red window decorations, wedding characters, and couplets they had pasted on them all turned white, leaving the entire house in a bleak white.

It is said that the joy of newlyweds is red joy, and the joy of the deceased is white joy.

Looking at all this white, it can't be this village's unique way of celebrating a new day, so...what happened?

"Li Yang! Li Yang?" The boy next to Ruan Jiyan shouted twice towards the closed door in the house.

Seeing no movement, the boy's face showed some tension. He subconsciously turned around to look at Ruan Jiyan, but did not see any reaction from her.

[Why is this boy looking back at the anchor? His level is not even as high as yours!]

[I felt this anchor was familiar to me at first, and now I feel even more familiar with him.]

[This streamer is increasingly looking like the dark horse from the game Horror Werewolf.]

[So some of these players know the real identity of the anchor?]

[Maybe, can't the face-shaping data be changed at the end of the instance? What if she just shaped a new face?]

Suddenly, there were two beeps in Ruan Jiyan's mind, and she concentrated her attention and prepared to listen to the system prompts.

[Host, you are about to be exposed. Please pay attention to your identity and adjust your character.] The system's cold voice echoed in Ruan Jiyan's mind.

[What, I'm exposed? ]

System: A newbie becomes the boss of several little gods, haha, you are almost putting your ass on my face.

[I'm not pretending, I really am not!] Do you think acting is that easy? If you can do it, come on!

[Again, please adjust your character settings as soon as possible to avoid exposure. 】

【oh.】

So, Ruan Jiyan said angrily to the boy who was looking at him for instructions: "Why are you looking at me? I don't know how to do it either."

???

Weren't you the most powerful and efficient in doing things before? You could kick the door at will. Now you tell me you can't do it?

Ruan Jiyan didn't care what he thought, she just stood there and stared at him. She was so confident and confident, the boy had nothing to say, he could only look away embarrassedly.

I don’t know when the bet started in the cloud broadcast room. All of a sudden, some players who thought that Ruan Jiyan and the new dark horse in the “Horror Werewolf” copy were the same person instantly lost about half of their life points.

So they started to laugh at Ruan Jiyan together with the winning players.

[I said, this person is just imitating that dark horse player to attract traffic.]

[I am speechless. I thought I could see a slap in the face. I guess I am blind.]

[Didn't you hear her self-introduction? She said she and her boyfriend had played a few simple dungeons before. Even if she's a fool, she should be able to understand some of the rules of the game, right?]

Ruan Jiyan successfully concealed his identity which was about to be exposed.

The boy behind him spoke slowly: "Why don't we go in and look around? These people don't seem right. Maybe we can find some clues."

As she said this, she walked into the door, and only started walking after the boy she was arguing with walked in.

After entering the house, the door was closed. I don’t know if it was the wind that blew it away.

A cold wind blew by, and the white cloth hanging on the beam fluttered in the wind. A piece of paper was blown out from the nearby room, and it was finally no longer white.

When Ruan Jiyan walked over and looked at the piece of paper carefully, he found that it was not just a small piece of paper, but a yellow banknote.

"For the dead..." She picked up the round yellow paper and said.

After she said this, the two boys seemed to have a break in their brains. They ran up in unison and slammed the door open.

Creak—the door opened and a scent of burning incense wafted into my face.

This room had never been opened before, but there was no smell of paper money or burning incense, so they had no idea what this room was used for and thought it was just a storage room.

But I didn't expect that this room was probably their ancestral hall.

"The tablet of Yanqing from the Huang family in Lujia Village... The tablet of Cheng from the Bao family in Lujia Village..." The boy pointed at the rows of tablets on the desk and read out the words one by one.

"Isn't this... the name of the hostess and her husband?" Ruan Jiyan asked doubtfully.

"Yes." The boy who didn't like to talk much answered her.

"So... this family died a long time ago?" The boy couldn't believe it.

"So who are we seeing here these days? And who are the people getting married?" He said, shaking his arms.

"Bai An, you have to protect me!" The boy jumped up and jumped onto another boy.

"Get lost. Even if I want to protect you, it's not you." Bai An gave him a blank look and pulled him off his body.

Ruan Jiyan's mind was in a mess, but she didn't want to say too much. If she said too many mistakes, it would be bad if they were exposed again.

If it doesn't work, just give a hint.

"This won't work. We don't know what happened to this family. Let's go ask other villagers first." Bai An said after the two stopped arguing.

Ruan Jiyan walked out first, and the two boys followed her. After they walked out of the door, Ruan Jiyan began her acting moment.

“Then which one should we ask first?” The acting was poor, but luckily the two boys were relatively calm and didn’t notice anything was wrong.

The three of them thought about it and prepared to go to the house where Liu Qi had visited when he was sick last time to ask the old man.

I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, but I feel like the village has changed since last night.

There used to be some human activity here, but now when I walk here it feels like a dead village, totally devoid of life.

The same thing happened when I walked all the way to the old man's house at the entrance of the village. I knocked on the door twice but no one answered.

"I always feel that this village is weird. Let's go find other villagers and ask them." After waiting for several seconds, the three of them said nothing, and finally Bai An suggested.

He was still a little unsure about what he said. He felt that it was not only the villagers in this village who were strange, but also Ruan Jiyan.

It was unclear whether she was observing or had something on her mind. Originally, she was a level 10-something who had never been to a dungeon before, but she was bold and careful when she went through the plot with them, and she was also able to analyze. They all admired her, but now she has become like a person who knows nothing, which is very disappointing.

The three of them went to the next house and knocked on the door, but still no one answered.

They walked to another house and knocked on the door, already giving up hope. The three of them looked at each other and prepared to move on to the next one.

"Who is it?" a young woman leaned her head out and took a look and shouted.

The three of them took two steps out and quickly ran back.

The boy walked up to the woman and looked at her expectantly, his voice gentle and rising: "Sister, we have something to ask you, is it convenient for us to talk?"

The woman looked at the three men with great vigilance and wanted to close the door, but was blocked by Bai An. In the end, the woman couldn't persuade them anymore and had to let them in to talk.

There was also an old man in the woman's house. He was lying on a chair covered with a blanket, with his head turned towards the inside of the house, so his face could not be seen clearly.

Ruan Jiyan took two steps forward, wanting to see the old man's appearance clearly, but the boy called out to him, "Ruan Jiyan, come here quickly."

Ruan Jiyan watched the old man walk up to the three people. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the old man turn his head, then lower it again.

"What do you want to ask?" The woman's face was still alert.

After the three of them exchanged glances, they decided that Ruan Jiyan should speak first. She was in a dilemma, trying to think of a question that would get useful information but not be so profound that it would expose her identity.

Finally, she asked a simple question: "This is the eighth family in the village. What happened to the family that was having a wedding yesterday?"

When the woman heard Ruan Ji Yan's question, her face suddenly became tense. She looked around, hesitated for a moment, and decided to drive them out.

"Hey, sister, sister! Don't chase us away. Tell us what happened!" The boy was being shameless and didn't want to go out. He was kept being pushed by the woman.

"I have nothing to tell you. I have nothing to tell you. You can ask someone else. It's so unlucky!" The woman was so angry that she quickly drove the man out.

After a while, the three of them stood dejectedly in front of the house with the door closed, not knowing what to do.

"Hey, what do you mean? We didn't provoke her!" The boy wanted to go up and argue with her, but was stopped by Bai An.

Ruan Jiyan's expression was also very solemn. He wanted to say something, but was afraid that it was just his guess, so he didn't say it out loud in the end.

Finally, he just said: "Go ask other people."

But she felt the final outcome would be the same.

Sure enough, the three people went to ask two more families, and both families avoided the question and drove them out angrily.

Ruan Jiyan finally expressed her thoughts: "I think that family may have some conflicts with the village, or..." She didn't say the rest, but she felt that this copy might be about to enter the official plot.

Then she thought of another very important person.

Ruan Jiyan tricked the two people into coming to the ruined temple because they were looking for the old woman whom they initially called a lunatic, so Ruan Jiyan said a few scary words and asked the two of them to guard outside while he went in to inquire.

The old woman closed her eyes, and when she heard the footsteps, she said, "You are here."

She seemed to be waiting for Ruan Jiyan. Ruan Jiyan walked over and asked directly: "I want to ask mother-in-law, that family just got married yesterday, why did they all disappear today?"

The old woman asked calmly, "What problems have you encountered?"

Of course there is a problem, but I don’t know if it is related to these people.

"Three of our friends disappeared one after another, but we had no clue, so we wanted to ask the people here. But for some reason, the people in the village seemed to have changed a lot overnight."

The old woman suddenly smiled, and Ruan Jiyan's heart tightened, thinking that she was going to refuse to answer by pretending to be crazy and stupid.

But then I heard her say, "Most of the people in this village are dead. You said you found it strange. Maybe you encountered something unclean."

Ruan Jiyan immediately sat up straight and listened to her attentively.

"Two years ago, for unknown reasons, many people died overnight in this village. It was said that there were curses and curses from vengeful spirits, which was why those people died suddenly."

“After that, every year during the three days before and after the Ghost Festival, the few people left in the village said they saw those people. But how could the dead come back to life and continue living?” The old woman’s face was no longer nonchalant, but she spoke seriously.

"At first, people thought the man was a liar, until they heard the voices of the dead owners coming from the houses that had not been occupied for a long time at night. Then they really believed it. After that, around the Ghost Festival, the living people would close their doors to avoid seeing those things."

She said it calmly, but Ruan Jiyan's back was already soaked. According to what the old woman said, combined with what they found strange and the mourning hall full of tablets, the hostess had already died a long time ago.

And all they keep seeing are ghosts?

Before the old woman finished speaking, her hoarse voice rang out again: "When you first came here, I told you to go back, but you didn't listen. Now something bad has happened."

Ruan Jiyan lowered his head in silence, and then the two people outside the ruined temple were a little worried about the situation inside, so they hurried in to check.

The two boys and the old woman looked at each other, and Bai An walked up to Ruan Jiyan silently and asked, "How is it, did you find out anything?"

The other boy pointed at the old woman and yelled, "Isn't this the crazy old woman who talks nonsense at the entrance of the village? Lin Hong, why are you asking her about these things?"

Ruan Jiyan gave him a look, signaling him to shut up.

The old woman seemed not to have heard it and didn't care at all. She continued to say to Ruan Jiyan: "Originally, you were the one who should have died that night. But someone took your place."

Someone replaced her! Who was it and why did they say she deserved to die?

Ruan Jiyan's eyes suddenly widened and she straightened up unconsciously. When she wanted to ask more questions, the old woman closed her eyes.