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Before the day was over, Ruan Jiyan was urged by the system to complete the next dungeon.

[If you do not exit the instance within 15 hours, the host may die.]

In order to have peace of mind, Ruan Jiyan went directly to the copy hall to apply.

"Hello, please fill in the copy application and copy name." A mechanical female voice sounded.

Before her hand even touched the light screen, the system stopped her with a voice: [Due to the host's special situation and the host's performance in the first copy, the system will limit your copy selection.]

Limit copy selection?

[What did I do in the first instance? I performed well and came out alive.]

[Hello, but the copy is not very good.]

[The plot of the dungeon completely collapsed. The host entered a terrifying werewolf killing dungeon, and all the NPCs in this dungeon died. The performance...is indeed not very good.]

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In the end, Ruan Jiyan chose a copy he had never played before, the "Village Ghost Story" copy.

While preparing to enter, the system introduced the plot of the "Village Ghost Story" copy to Ruan Jiyan.

You are a horror novelist. You heard from your good friend that there is a strange Buddhist temple in Luejia Village. During the Ghost Festival, you can still witness their traditional wedding customs when you go there.

So you are deeply attracted and decide to go and take a look and find some inspiration.

After a few words of introduction, Ruan Jiyan walked into the stone door that was emitting a green glow.

There was darkness before his eyes, and his brain could not sense the existence of his body, but Ruan Jiyan's thoughts were still very clear. He had begun to get used to this feeling.

It was a familiar beginning again, something began to appear in the darkness. Just like watching a movie, a progress bar appeared at the bottom of the black screen, and a few small words "Loading" kept scrolling.

After a long time, Ruan Jiyan heard some sounds in a daze.

"Girl, girl?" A simple and deep voice entered Ruan Jiyan's ears.

"Girl, are we at Luejia Village, young man?" he said again.

Ruan Jiyan frowned slightly and opened her eyes. The dazzling light shone directly into her eyes. She blocked it and then stood up.

"Hey, little girl, you finally woke up. We have arrived at your destination." The man sitting in the driver's seat of the van breathed a sigh of relief and said.

Several people fell asleep as soon as they got in the car. No matter how bumpy the ride was, there was no movement at all. If it weren't for the little girl in the passenger seat breathing heavily and her stomach moving, the man would have thought they were all dead.

It was evening now, and the sun's golden rays were still shining through the trees on the top of the mountain, passing straight through the car window and falling on Ruan Jiyan's chubby face.

She glanced outside the car and saw that it was parked on a dirt road with wheat planted on both sides.

"Little girl, call your friends. It's getting late. If we keep wasting time like this, it will be dark soon."

She turned her head and looked at the back seat of the car. There were five people sitting there, one woman and four men. They all seemed to be dazed and slumped in the seats, not moving.

She didn't say anything, and she didn't know whether these people were players who were doing the dungeon together or NPCs in the game.

The driver shouted several times and finally woke them up.

After everyone woke up, the driver drove them out of the car and drove away without hesitation, as if something terrible would happen if he stayed there for another second.

The six people just stood there, looking at each other in confusion.

One of the boys spoke first: "I guess you are all dungeon players, so let me briefly introduce myself."

As he said that, he began to introduce himself, and then several boys followed suit. Anyway, Ruan Jiyan didn't remember any of them, but he remembered the other girl.

The other girl's name is Yang Si. I don't know if it's because of her face being pinched or if she just looks like that, but her face is slightly pointed and her eyes and eyebrows are a bit sharp. If she were to be divided into Luo and Yu, she would definitely be a Yu sister.

Sure enough, when she opened her mouth, her slightly low voice made Ruan Jiyan feel safe.

The girl's level was not low, 43. Judging from her speaking style and the feeling she gave, she must have been through a lot of dungeons to be so calm.

When it was Ruan Jiyan's turn, she paused before speaking: "My name is Lin Hong, I'm an earth defense player, and my game level is 14."

Although this dungeon is not a very difficult one, it is no longer within the scope of novice dungeons. Normally, players at level 10 or so should not dare to challenge it lightly.

Several people began to doubt Ruan Jiyan: "You are only level 14, why did you choose to enter this dungeon?"

It's no wonder they looked at her with disdain. Although the dungeons in this game were not played in sequence, the level differences between the players matched together were not that big.

Moreover, ever since the malicious bug in the game dungeon appeared, more and more players have died in the game, and after leaving the dungeon, the game data of the dead players can no longer be queried. No one knows what the nature of death has become after the bug appeared.

Therefore, every player is more or less afraid that someone will hold them back, and naturally they look down on players of lower levels in the game.

Ruan Jiyan didn't plan to tell them the truth. It wouldn't change anything anyway, so she said expressionlessly, "I used to go to dungeons with my boyfriend. The dungeons he took me to were easier, and he would give me a lot of life points after he came back from dungeons. So I rarely went to dungeons by myself, and my level didn't go up."

"Then why do you have to go into the dungeon alone now?" the girl asked coldly.

"Because my boyfriend died." Ruan Jiyan couldn't pretend to be sad, so she could only lower her head so that the others wouldn't be able to see her expression clearly.

She didn't have a boyfriend and didn't need such a thing, so it was just a lie to them.

The system opened a cloud broadcast room for her. Many people may have seen her in the Werewolf dungeon. Her true identity and level could not be exposed, so she had to tell some lies to deceive them.

A few people walked along the dirt road and finally saw a ruined temple in the distance at the foot of the mountain.

There were three forked roads in front of the ruined temple. They walked up from the lowest one and when they got closer they found an old lady with disheveled hair sitting on a large rock outside the ruined temple.

When the old lady saw someone approaching, her hunched body began to tremble. She stood up with the help of a bamboo stick, pointed at a few people, and kept muttering something in her mouth, which looked very strange.

"Leave here...Leave here..." Only after several people approached her could they hear what she said.

"Hello, grandma. Which road leads to Lujia Village?" One of the boys walked up and asked.

The old lady seemed not to hear anything and kept muttering something. She even took several steps back when the boy approached.

Another short and skinny boy said in a sharp voice: "Is this a lunatic? Otherwise, why would he ignore me?"

Yang Si rolled his eyes at him and was about to step forward to ask questions but was stopped by Ruan Jiyan who stepped forward first.

"Hello, grandma. We would like to ask how to get to Lujia Village." She spoke softly, and leaned close to the old lady's ear.

The old lady suddenly raised her head, and the surprised expression on her face disappeared in an instant. She raised her eyes abruptly and looked at Ruan Jiyan, then suddenly grinned and said, "You want to die? You all want to die, you will die! Hahahahahahahaha..."

As she spoke, her voice suddenly became louder, her eyes widened, and she pointed at a few people crazily and then burst into laughter.

The short and thin boy started to curse again: "I told you she was a lunatic. You can't trust lunatics. If we leave now, we'll be asking for death."

"Stop wasting time talking to her, let's go." The boy who took the lead at the beginning reminded.

Once a player enters a dungeon, in addition to successfully completing the level and dying in the game due to tasks or puzzles, he will also die if he gives up midway and will be punished.

That's why they got so excited when the old lady asked them to leave. It was clearly an attempt to confuse them.

After hearing what the old lady said, Ruan Jiyan ignored the people behind him who kept cursing at him and asked, "Grandma, why did you die?"

"Leave here...Leave here..." She didn't answer, but just kept repeating this sentence in her mouth.

"Is it because there is something scary here?" Ruan Jiyan continued to ask.

"Yes, because..." Before the old lady could finish her words, Ruan Jiyan was called out by several people and then laughed at.

"No way, you really believe a madman's words." Several boys laughed, looking at her like a fool, and teased her again, "You should not be so impulsive if you are of a lower level. What if something unexpected happens to you before the mission even starts?"

Several people spoke loudly with some condemnation. They hoped that a rookie like Ruan Jiyan would behave himself and not hold back.

After being interrupted by them, the old lady stopped talking. When Ruan Jiyan turned around to listen to her again, she had already shut her mouth tightly and walked into the dilapidated temple with a bamboo stick.

It was getting late, and a few people didn't want to wait there any longer, so they prepared to move forward.

Seeing the old lady leave without even looking back, Ruan Jiyan had no choice but to get up and follow the others.

The words she didn't finish also left a knot in Ruan Jiyan's heart.

There were two roads in front of them, one was uphill and the other was relatively flat. Several people chose to take the flat road, and after walking for a while, they saw a house.

The six people quickened their pace and walked into the village, where they saw a group of people actively discussing something on the side of the road.

As the group of people were talking, they saw the six people. They did not look unhappy, but rather surprised. Then they rushed over, surrounded them, and began to greet them warmly.

Maybe because something good happened, they all had big smiles on their faces.

At this time, the system voice sounded: [The game "Fast and Furious Loading" copy "Village Tales" has been opened.]

After this simple reminder, there was no more sound.

Ruan Jiyan's system sounded a reminder: [The dungeon has been entered, the mission has been opened, and all rewards will be unlocked after the player completes the dungeon. ]

Drop—drop—

Instantly, the game stopped and several people heard a sound similar to electric current in their heads.

Ruan Ji rubbed his ears subconsciously, and then heard the system voice.

[Game Instance: Village Tales]

[Difficulty level: C level (non-novice copy), high difficulty, average mortality rate]

[Player/NPC name: Lin Hong/Ruan Jiyan]

[Level: Level 7 (lower level, more limited attack power/healing ability/defense power)]

[Mission: Hide your identity to find and solve the bug]

【Mission Rewards: To be unlocked】

[Player's current health points: 40 (When the health points are below 60, the mental power will be continuously polluted by the dungeon. When the health points are below 50, the damage from attacks will increase.)]

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When they returned to the plot, the group of people no longer greeted them, and they had already started to follow a few villagers.

Finally, they arrived at a house whose entire yard was hung with red cloth and red paper lanterns. The hostess invited them all in and told them to stay there.

Judging from the decoration of this house, someone should be getting married, but there is no one else to be seen except a middle-aged male owner with some gray hair and a woman of similar age.

Yang Si looked around, looking at the red room full of red and a little confused. He pointed to the room with a red "囍" sticker and asked, "Is there a wedding in your family?"

The smile on the woman's face froze for a second, then she smiled and explained to them, "Yes, yes, this is my daughter's room, and she's getting married."

As soon as he finished speaking, six people hurried to congratulate him, but they had nothing to give away.

"Oh, don't be so polite. She's getting married, and having a guest here is a great blessing!"

"You guys, just stay here and have a good rest for a few days. Then you can be ready for the wedding and experience our wedding customs here!" The woman was very enthusiastic and was about to take a few people away to assign rooms.

This family's house is quite big, with many rooms. It seems that the dungeon mission should start from this house, so the few people did not refuse too much. After the hostess assigned the rooms, they just thanked her a little embarrassedly.

The hostess asked them to rest first and went to prepare dinner.

The few people no longer had the hostility they had at the beginning towards each other, and were all a little overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of this family.

They gathered in a room and began to communicate.

The boy who was a little higher in rank and had been leading them spoke first: "Why do I feel that things won't be that simple?"

His friend also agreed: "Yes, the system has not appeared once since we entered the dungeon, and no missions have been released. Are we really going to take a vacation in the dungeon?"

"It's not that simple. From the moment I entered this house, I only saw this couple. Logically, their daughter should be the protagonist of the story, but she has never shown her face." Yang Si's face was a little gloomy and his voice was a little low.

Ruan Jiyan remembered the old lady he met at the ruined temple when he first entered the village. She kept asking them to go back. Did she know something?