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The night was as dark as ink, but everything around her was completely captured by Ruan Jiyan's eyes. She only saw the dim candlelight in the mourning hall, which pierced through the darkness and into her eyes.

I saw a woman with disheveled hair frantically stuffing the offerings on the table into her mouth in front of the tablets. Her mouth was opened so wide that she looked so starving that she could eat a sheep!

[What the hell? What the hell?]

[That woman is abnormal. She eats like a starving ghost!]

[Why did she have to go to the funeral home to eat offerings for the dead?]

At this time, there were still a few players in the cloud broadcast room who stayed up late to watch the live broadcast without leaving the dungeon. They originally thought that the live broadcasts of the big players were not as good as the live broadcasts of the small players and were just showing off, so they came to look for the live broadcasts of the newbies, but they didn't expect to see such a creepy scene.

In the darkness, a woman was eating the food offered to the dead like a starving ghost in front of a table lined with tablets.

Then she turned her head suddenly, and her eyes met Ruan Jiyan who was hiding behind the curtain.

[Fuck! This ghostly look almost scared me to death!]

[When their eyes meet, according to the usual plot, the female ghost should notice the host in the next second and come to deal with her!]

The players had this reaction because the woman lying on the table suddenly turned her head around and saw that her mouth was covered in blood, her eyes were glowing red, and her swollen face was completely rotten and there was some pus.

That fierce look immediately met Ruan Jiyan's gaze, and she took a step back in fright.

Have you been seen?

Ruan Ji Yan didn't think much about it. He quickly took out a talisman from the system space and put it on his body. Then he jumped onto the bed, pulled the quilt over himself, buried his head in the quilt, and didn't move.

After three crisp footsteps, there was no movement outside. Ruan Jiyan's heart rose to the top as the night became quieter. She was not sure whether the woman had discovered her.

Ruan Ji Yan waited nervously for a long time, but there was no movement outside the house. She didn't give up and got up again. She opened the curtain a little and took a look, just a glance.

There was no trace of the woman outside, and the mourning hall was in a mess, with bloodstains all over the floor, scattered incense sticks, and few offerings left.

[The host is really a brave man. He still dares to stand up and watch even in such a situation. He is not afraid of coming face to face with the female ghost.]

[Are all the newbies so powerful nowadays? The last person who dared to stick his head out to observe the situation in a dangerous situation was that newbie dark horse. Excuse me, do they know each other? Are they from the same school?]

[The above posters should not make up so much, this only shows that newbies do not understand the horror of this game. When they have more experience, they will not dare to do so.]

[Hahahaha, a newborn calf is not afraid!]

Ruan Jiyan moved slowly back to the bedside cautiously, still holding the talisman in her hand.

She slowly put the talisman away and lay down on the bed. As if she had taken medicine, she was suddenly overwhelmed by sleepiness. She could not keep her eyelids open for long before they closed.

She didn't know when it was, but she had a dream. This dream was very familiar and seemed to be a recurring dream.

The wedding day came again, and this time Ruan Jiyan became the bridesmaid and followed the bride.

Perhaps because she didn't get the answer in reality, she actually wanted to lift the bride's veil in her dream.

In her dream, she walked forward, grabbed the bride's veil and pulled it off.

The face of the bride was the same face as the girl they pulled out of the well today. Ruan Jiyan couldn't believe it, and the people around him didn't find it strange. The bride just silently put the veil back on.

She stayed where she was, watching the dream once again come to its horrific end.

After the newlyweds stepped over the fire basin, they walked to the center of the room and knelt down. The hostess and her husband, who originally had smiles on their faces, turned into two paper figures in the blink of an eye.

All the villagers who came to attend the wedding were turned into paper people. Among these paper people, Ruan Jiyan also saw the old man who had treated Liu Qi before.

Ruan Jiyan couldn't believe it. The eldest master was also dead?

Then the familiar sound of laughter was heard, followed by a puff. The groom stood up and turned around, and his stomach exploded. Blood and intestines all flew out. His eyes and nose were bleeding, but he kept laughing.

At this time, the bride's veil was lifted by herself, and the person turned into Yang Si.

This dream always seemed very familiar. She had had it once before, with similar scenes and images.

And the bride finally turned out to be Yang Si. Does that mean that Yang Si disappeared because they married her to that man as a bride?

Ruan Jiyan's hands and feet seemed to be frozen, unable to take a step. She looked up at Yang Si, who silently said two words to her: "Save me."

Then she woke up, still covered in cold sweat. It was not yet dawn, but she was completely awake.

She has not slept well for a single moment since entering this dungeon.

Damn it, the mission this time was to find clues in her dream, so why was she the only one going through this?

This was the most crappy copy she had ever experienced!

She was still feeling sad when the bed next to her moved. She turned her head alertly to look at the bulging quilt, only to hear the girl snort twice, turn over and expose her head.

The girl slept very contentedly and stretched her body comfortably.

Ruan Jiyan remembered that the girl was not in bed last night, and she happened to be away last night. Ruan Jiyan saw the horrible scene outside from the window. No matter how he thought about it, he felt that this girl would not be so lucky.

"Where did you go last night? I didn't see you when I woke up." Ruan Jiyan asked with suspicion in her eyes.

The girl looked at her with her big eyes, bright and innocent.

She remained silent, and Ruan Jiyan then remembered that her voice was not good, and he didn't know whether she would be able to speak at the beginning.

Well, now no matter whether she did it intentionally or unintentionally, Ruan Jiyan couldn't ask anything for a while, so she simply shut up.

[System, are the target NPCs or bugs not appearing at the moment? ]

[Host, this instance does not seem to have read anything that does not belong to the game, and because the instance is relatively easy, the system cannot actively read the target NPC. ]

[However, what is certain is that the difficulty of this instance is the same as before, and there should be no bugs. ]

[No bugs, does that mean that there are no unknown bugs that invade the dungeons? ]

【Maybe that’s the case.】

So you let me choose a copy without bugs, as if I have nothing to do?

Ruan Jiyan couldn't help but curse this unreliable system in his heart, but then he felt it was unlikely.

Even if this copy has no bugs, the plot of the game is not quite normal. This copy gives her the feeling that dreams and reality collide and begin to merge. Everything seems real and seems like a dream.

Maybe I haven't been mentally normal these days.

She got up from bed, went out and knocked on Bai An's door. After waiting for a while, Bai An got up and opened the door: "What's wrong?"

He rubbed his eyes and asked her dazedly.

Ruan Jiyan: I really envy you for having such a good sleep.

"It's time to get up." After saying that, she turned and went back to her room.

The scene of last night's dream where Yang Si asked her for help kept replaying in her mind. It seemed that she had to go back to the places she had searched before and look for it again.

The three of them took the girl with them and prepared to go to the back mountain to look for the place where Huang Kangwu was buried to see if they could find Yang Si. However, they felt that it was not convenient to take the girl with them, as they were afraid that something might remind her of some bad things.

So they decided to take the girl to the dilapidated temple and let the old lady take care of her first, and also ask the old lady where Huang Kangwu was buried in the back mountain.

This time, when the old lady saw the girl, she didn't have a surprised expression on her face, but smiled at Ruan Jiyan.

She liked Ruan Jiyan very much. Ruan Jiyan whispered a few words in her ear, wanting to ask her to look after the girl, and she agreed without hesitation.

What is meant to come will eventually come, and it is a good thing to be able to help them at the last moment.

The old woman did not use a cane this time. She stood up and took Ruan Jiyan to the back of the Buddha statue. She lowered her voice and said to her, "Huang Kangwu's grave is in the back mountain. There is no tomb built for him, only a mound of earth. I don't know exactly where it is."

Then she added, "Don't come to me anymore, and don't go to anyone else. Don't bother with someone crying!"

Before Ruan Jiyan could react, she walked to the Buddha statue, knelt down, and kowtowed twice.

Ruan Jiyan followed her out and wanted to ask the old woman what she meant, but she urged him, "Okay, go ahead."

Ruan Jiyan swallowed what he was about to say and took two more glances before leaving.

They walked all the way to the back mountain. As soon as they entered the back mountain, they felt that the light had dimmed a lot and the whole forest was filled with a gloomy atmosphere.

Zhu Wen was a little scared, so he quickened his pace and squeezed in between Bai An and Ruan Ji Yan, letting the two of them surround him from the front and back, and then he felt less scared.

As they walked, they kept complaining: "What kind of a ghost place is this? Why is it so spooky?"

"I think you're right. This might be a haunted place." Ruan Jiyan threatened him from behind.

"I, I was just talking nonsense, don't scare me!" Zhu Wen grabbed Bai An's sleeve, turned his head and looked at Ruan Jiyan pleadingly, begging her not to scare him.

The three of them walked to the cemetery they had been to before and looked around. There were rows of tombstones with words engraved on them, but not a single one had Huang Kangwu's name on it.

Ruan Jiyan reminded him, "The old woman told me that Huang Kangwu died young, and because of some strange accident, they didn't have time to dig a tomb for him, so they just found a place to pile up a pile of soil for him."

"So we looked around to see if there was any grave with a tombstone."

After she finished speaking, the two people who were courageously reading the words on the tombstones in front of the rows of graves immediately stopped and stood up.

The lighting here was too dim. If they really tried to read all the words on the tombstone, they might go blind. Fortunately, they only found a mound of earth.

Although it is easier than searching one by one in tombs that look similar, searching for graves in such a dark environment still makes people feel a little nervous.

The original plan was for the three of them to search one side each, which would be quick and save energy, but Zhu Wen was really timid and was unwilling and afraid to search by himself.

Bai An glanced at Zhu Wen and then at Ruan Jiyan, and asked the two of them to look together, "You two can look on the left side together, and I will look in the back alone."

Ruan Jiyan looked at Zhu Wen, whose face had turned purple with fear, and felt a little disgusted, and wanted to refuse.

But he was afraid that he would be too conspicuous and cause others to doubt his identity, so he finally agreed.

When Zhu Wen heard Bai An asked him to be in a group with Ruan Jiyan, he immediately ran over and grabbed Ruan Jiyan's sleeve: "Lin Hong, you have to protect me!"

"Get lost."

Ruan Jiyan pulled his sleeve out of his hand, rolled his eyes at him and walked forward.

In fact, she was not looking carefully, but seeking help from the system.

[System, can you find where Huang Kangwu's grave is? ]

【cannot.】

[Don't talk nonsense.] Ruan Jiyan didn't believe it at all.

If the system really couldn't do it, it would have told her so in a serious manner and said how helpless it was. But the rejection was so blunt that it must have been an attempt to cover up its mistake.

[The location of Huang Kangwu's tomb has been located, about 300 meters in front of you. 】

Ruan Jiyan: I still don’t understand you.

Ruan Jiyan grabbed Zhu Wen by the collar and pulled him forward.

Zhu Wen was still shivering due to the dim environment when he was suddenly grabbed by the collar and dragged forward like a chicken.

"What are you doing! Where are you taking me? Are you going to murder me?" he shouted subconsciously.

Ruan Jiyan suddenly covered his mouth and said impatiently: "Stop making noise, it's annoying."

By the time Zhu Wen reacted, the two men were already standing in front of a mound of earth. Zhu Wen stared blankly at the pile of earth, and then asked Ruan Ji Yan.

"Are we looking for a dirt bag?"

“…”

While Zhu Wen was still talking, Ruan Jiyan was already digging the soil with a shovel.

"No, why are you digging someone's grave? Aren't you afraid that they will come looking for you at night?" Zhu Wen was shocked.

Ruan Jiyan endured for two seconds and decided not to argue with him any more as he focused on business.

Ruan Jiyan is a staunch atheist. Even though she saw so many things that shouldn't appear after entering the dungeon, she still doesn't believe in them.

After all, this is just a copy. In that copy, there are only NPCs besides the players, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

"If you say another word, I'll dig a hole and bury you in it." Ruan Ji Yan turned around and said to him.

These words really frightened Zhu Wen. He bit his fingers and dared not make a sound.

After finally losing his voice, Ruan Jiyan began to work hard.

After shoveling for a long time, she did not forget to look back at the man. Only after she made sure that Zhu Wen was still there did she feel relieved.

[No way, is that guy so useless that he actually let the girl shovel alone and didn’t even help? ]

[No, look at how pitiful he is. I feel like he is not as good as the girl. It’s good enough if he doesn’t cause any trouble when he goes up to her. Hahaha!]

[The host seemed to be suddenly enlightened, and rushed over with the boy. I thought she was possessed by something, but she was able to find it right away. Is she born in the Year of the Dog?]

[No, even if I’m really good, I still deserve to be scolded by you guys?]

[The above comment is not insulting, it is a compliment, it is really outrageous.]

After shoveling for a while, Ruan Jiyan was already sweating profusely. She slowly stood up, rubbed her aching lumbar spine, sighed, and prepared to shovel again.

Zhu Wen quickly ran over and took the shovel from her hand: "I, I'll do it."

He was really afraid that he would make another sound just now, and he was buried by her. However, he felt a little embarrassed when he saw Lin Hong shoveling so hard from behind. Seeing that she was so tired that she couldn't straighten her back, he hurried over to take over.

He closed his eyes and shoveled hard, for fear that if he shoveled too fast he would see something terrible.

However, the two men shoveled the soil in front of them and even dug a shallow pit, but they didn't see anything.

Zhu Wen didn't know what she was looking for, so he picked up the shovel and was about to continue shoveling, but she stopped him and said, "No need to shovel."

Finally, Zhu Wen was so exhausted that he fell to the ground, gasping for breath.

"No, you've been digging for so long, what are you looking for?"

Ruan Ji Yan lowered his head and looked at him without saying a word. Just as the two were about to get up and walk back, Bai An came from behind.

"Did you find it?" he asked.

"I found it, but there's nothing inside." Ruan Jiyan answered him.

Bai An told her, "There is definitely nothing here. Even if we are looking for Huang Kangwu's body, it has been so long since his death that we won't find anything. Not to mention a living person. How dare they bury her here?"

In last night's dream, Yang Si was still asking her for help, and Ruan Ji Yan felt that Yang Si must not be dead yet.

But he had already searched all the places he should look for. Apart from here, Ruan Jiyan really didn't know where else to look.

"Let's go down the mountain first. Those houses change every moment. Maybe we can find something if we look for them again." Bai An was right. Those scenes would change into another appearance if we didn't pay attention. Maybe we would make new discoveries if we look for them from time to time.

Ruan Jiyan also thought of the old woman who was still helping them look after the girl, so he agreed to go down the mountain first.

It was extremely slippery when we were going down the mountain, and the three of us almost fell.

After walking down the mountain, I used the faint sunlight to determine the position of the sun. It was almost noon.

Bai An walked in front and entered the dilapidated temple. He wanted to thank the old lady and say some more words to her, but he was stunned after entering the temple.

The ruined temple was in a mess, with the neatly arranged offerings and other items rolling to the ground one by one.

There were also some dried bloodstains on the ground, and some bloodstains in other places in the temple. The old woman and the other woman were both missing.

Bai An cried out inwardly, "Oh no!" and all three of them had a very bad premonition.

The bloodstain might have belonged to one of the old woman and the other woman.

Did someone hurt them both, or did something go wrong between them?

"What's going on? Where did the old lady go?"

"Maybe something bad happened between them."

As it grew dark, the three men did not find a single person around the ruined temple.

The three men became increasingly frustrated. Now that the old woman was gone, they could no longer get any clues about the village from her.

When they reached the hostess's house, Bai An did not go in, but stared at the house at the end of the road, "Let's go there and take a look."

The three men's actions were linked together. They walked to the dilapidated house, paused for two seconds, walked in, and began to turn the house upside down without mercy.

Finally, when Zhu Wen lifted the heavy mattress, he found a pair of people tied up in paper.

The three people quickly gathered around and observed the pair of paper-made figures who had their backs to them. The paper-made figures were wearing black clothes, one was wearing a hat and the other had short hair.

Ruan Jiyan stepped forward and turned the two paper figures over, so that the two paper figures were facing them.

Zhu Wen hid at the back, squinting his eyes and not daring to look any further.

Bai An looked at the pair of paper figures: "Yang Si..."