Xiao Mao felt frustrated.
Among the three people, only Yu Zhiyi did not speak from beginning to end. He listened to the broadcast and left with the other two.
He Weiyou escorted them out and said, "Are you really not going to hide here?"
Da Zhu talked to him, "We didn't plan to stay here. We parked here because there happened to be an open space. If we hadn't seen you come out this morning, we probably wouldn't have knocked on the door. Of course we can hide, but who has time to spare before the mission is completed?"
He Wei, who had really thought about hiding here like a turtle, did not answer this question. However, when he turned around and walked into the house, he almost bumped into the face of the haggard old lady behind him. He was so scared that he almost jumped up. The turtle's mind successfully changed to running away within a second.
"Shi Yu."
He Weiyou ran back to the dining table: "How long are we going to stay here?"
The broadcast gave listeners some knowledge about the infected people once, and then quickly repeated it a second time.
This time there were no people around, and Shi Yu turned down the volume of the radio a little: "Don't you want to stay?"
He Wei had already said "I regret it" in his throat, but he noticed his face: "Why is your face so red?"
Shi Yu: “Nothing.”
"Do you think I'm blind?" He Wei looked at him with a rather mysterious look, "Are you having a fever?"
Shi Yu said nothing.
His face was slightly flushed, not too deep, but it was particularly noticeable because of his fair skin.
He Weiyou felt inexplicably guilty: "Could it be because I lingered downstairs for too long last night that you got blown by the wind?"
He remembered that the other party was not wearing a coat when he went downstairs last night. In such weather, it was entirely possible that he would catch a cold if he stood outside for a few minutes wearing only a single layer of clothing.
Shi Yu shook her head and turned off the radio: "When I first entered the game, I was in the hospital. The doctor told me that my high fever might recur."
He Wei inexplicably felt a sense of comfort in this sentence, and asked carefully: "The mission is not yet completed, shall we go down the mountain?"
Shi Yu glanced at him, nodded, stood up and greeted the old lady.
By the time he went out, He Weiyou had already pushed the motorcycle out, ready to rush down the mountain as soon as he received the order.
The old man stood on the cement and watched them go away. It really felt like an elder watching his son leave home.
He Weiyou left the house, and the chill that had been lingering on his back since he entered finally disappeared. He breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, but when he turned around and saw the old man standing by the door, he felt a little guilty for some reason: "Shi Yu."
"Um?"
"Give me a definite answer. Is she a human or a ghost?" Since she has never hurt them, she must be a human. He was really too suspicious...
"It's a ghost."
The motorcycle suddenly skidded on the snow, and the rider and the motorcycle almost fell off the mountain.
【？ ？ ？】
【What did I hear? ? 】
He Weiyou's tongue was almost unresponsive: "No, no, why?"
Shi Yu put it simply: "No breathing, no pulse."
"When did you know this?"
"It must have been last night, when she gave me the candle." He grabbed her wrist.
"And what about the discovery?"
Shi Yu sat in the back seat: "Knock on the door when she just came out."
He Weiyou was about to collapse: "If you knew it so long ago, why didn't you tell me?!"
"I'm afraid you'll sleep outdoors on the mountain."
"...Then I really thank you." He Wei had mixed feelings for a while, "Then how did she become...become..."
He didn't say the word "ghost" after all.
"It's just speculation, there's no direct evidence," Shi Yu said. "Her son did it."
He Wei was at a loss.
"Based on the aging of her skin and bones, her body age should be around fifty, which was her age when she died. But she said that if her son got married, her grandson would be about the same age as me. If we calculate that under normal circumstances, if she could live, she would be at least sixty-five years old, which means she has been dead for at least ten years."
"There were no bruises on her body, no signs of poisoning or sudden death on her face, and no bruises or strangulation marks on her neck that would indicate death by mechanical asphyxiation. She was clearly indoors at two points last night when she opened the door and this morning when she was making breakfast in front of the fire, but she was still wearing a hat. In this case, the cause of death was most likely a head injury, so she used the hat to cover it up."
"She is the only one at home. People who live alone are always wary of outsiders. When she opened the door yesterday, there was an iron chain on it, which shows that she has a basic sense of defense against strangers. She never mentioned her partner from beginning to end, and there was no tablet of a man of her age on the altar in the hall. Excluding an accidental early death, her partner and she probably separated a long time ago, and even if they met, they should keep their distance."
"She said she had an only son, who was a doctor, but had not been home for many years. She had not come back to see him in the past decade or so, and the house had not been sold. The head injury was more like an emotional blow to the head or a push against the wall than premeditated."
Shi Yu's eyes were always looking forward. He had a good voice, but he spoke in a straightforward manner without any emotion: "More than a decade ago, the son came back, they talked and quarreled. The son killed someone in a fit of rage and buried the body in the backyard; but the old man died with his eyes open, and his soul lingered in his old home."
He Wei was stunned for a long time. This was not the first time he had heard of this kind of parricide in the game. People’s joys and sorrows were not the same, so it was hard to say how sad it was. At most, he felt a little sad, until he heard the last sentence: "...Buried in the backyard?"
"Didn't you step on it last night?"
“…”
Shi Yu: "Just listen to it, it's all just guesswork, don't take it seriously."
It took He Wei a while to realize that he had spent a whole night in a ghost's house. "So we're just going to leave like this, don't worry about it?"
"What do you care?"
"Like finding her son, exposing him, untying her knot and sending her to the afterlife?"
He Weiyou felt that since the other party was really a ghost and they just happened to run into it, then according to previous experience, it should be related to the main story of their game.
Isn’t the simplest method to help ghosts to be liberated?
"There are no photos or any information about her son in her home. I guess her son took them with him before he left. When asked, she couldn't even tell me his name, except that he was a doctor."
Shi Yu closed his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. You won't find it."
He Weiyou was confused: "Does this ghost really have nothing to do with the mission? If not, why did we encounter it?"
"There should be." Shi Yu said, "But I'm not sure now."
He Wei couldn't figure out for a moment whether this "uncertainty" meant that he was uncertain whether the two were related, or whether it was the kind of relationship he guessed.
He didn't ask any more questions. The motorcycle was getting closer and closer to the foot of the mountain. Before it could reach the flat ground, the infected people who had been lingering at the entrance to the mountain had already heard the sound of the engine and rushed over without waiting.
He Weiyou said "Hold on tight", stepped on the accelerator, and the car sped away.
You wouldn't know until you see it. One night was enough for the infected to occupy every street within sight. The doors and windows of most shops were closed, some were filled with survivors, while others were full of wandering infected.
Although the person carrying the motorcycle and the person driving the motorcycle encountered many infected people along the way, they were always safe and sound. They avoided those they could avoid and crashed into those they couldn't avoid. They didn't even fight with each other.
It snowed at night, covering up a lot of the bloodstains and corpses on the street. The scene was not as shocking as when the infected people first appeared yesterday.
He Weiyou ran for two blocks like a headless fly, and his slow reaction arc just reminded him to ask: "We are in Jiangshan City mentioned in the broadcast, where should we go now?"
Shi Yu didn't know how to evaluate his reaction speed: "Go to the city center."
He Wei kept his eyes on the road signs and asked, "Why go to the city center?"
"It's easy to be noticed." Shi Yu said, "The broadcast clearly stated that Jiangshan City, the center of the TG7788 novel virus outbreak, was the first city to be sealed off, and its surrounding areas. With such a big incident, it's impossible for the authorities not to take action. I don't know where the rescuers sent by land and water will come from, but the helicopter will definitely go to the city center first."
He Weiyu asked a stupid question as soon as he opened his mouth: "If we want to find a shelter, we can stay on the mountain." Why come down?
"...You don't plan to take charge of the mission anymore?"
The scope of the virus outbreak is too large. It is obviously unrealistic to rely on individual strength to hunt down the infected one by one and then study the principles of existence. We can only seek help from professional institutions.
Going to the city center to seek shelter is one thing, but the key is to figure out what is going on and why infected people suddenly appear.
Shi Yu was not usually very curious, and it was rare for him to not understand something. After a few seconds of silence, he asked, "How long did it take you to enter the Upper Nine Heavens?"
He Weiyou was driving the car, so he wasn't wary: "About seven or eight months."
Shi Yu said "Oh" and nothing else.
Seven to eight months is the average speed that Xiaoguangtuan mentioned before for players to accumulate enough points to enter the ninth day. But if all the players assigned to a game are really so unsuspecting...
He wondered silently, was it that the overall level of the players he met in previous games was generally high?
He Weiyou had to slip his tongue: "I can't compare with you. Fortunately, you are the first player I met in this game, otherwise I wouldn't be able to be your savior."
Shi Yu took a few seconds to react: "So you came out to save me on purpose and teamed up with me on purpose?"
He Weiyou: “…”
Next, Shi Yu learned from him how an ordinary person who was not good at fighting but was great at socializing had survived in the Divine Realm until today: cast a wide net, make many friends, try to create relationships with people, and always know how to show weakness and put down your face.
According to He Weiyou, apart from sleeping, he spends at least 70% of his time every day in player forums and live broadcasts. Not only has he gotten to know the faces of all capable players, he also particularly likes to pan for gold in the novice field at the beginning of the month, because players who have just entered the game have not yet developed the immunity to all poisons of experienced players, so it is better to build good relationships with them at this time so that he can plead for mercy in the future.
Therefore, after Shi Yu participated in the first game of Divine Realm, He Weiyu remembered him, followed him and sent him a friend request.
...Of course, in the end, it was ruthlessly marked as "read" along with hundreds of thousands of other applications, and then all blocked.
Shi Yu had no problem with his personal survival method, but the question was: "You just said it out loud in front of the live camera?"
"What's the big deal? The recorded videos sold to players in God's Domain are all edited in post-production. Content like this that is irrelevant to the main storyline and involves the player space will definitely be deleted. Otherwise, a video would be hundreds of hours long. Who would have the time to watch it?"
Compared to other players discovering his thoughts through watching the live broadcast, He Weiyou was obviously more concerned about the present situation: "Even if I approached you with a purpose in the beginning...but it is also a fact that I saved you, right? Judging from the deeds and not the heart, you are not so ruthless, right?"
Before Shi Yu could say anything, a dark shadow suddenly swooped down from above in his peripheral vision.
He subconsciously wanted to remind the driver to turn, but it was too late. The black shadow rushed forward with lightning speed and crashed into the black mountain bike traveling at high speed on the street without fear of death.
"Bang--"
There was a loud bang.
He Wei was absent-minded and failed to dodge, and his hands were shaken off the handlebars. The motorcycle scraped uncontrollably on the snow, and the violent vibration expanded to a peak in an instant, and the body of the motorcycle rolled out in an instant.
[Oh my god!!!]
[What just hit me?! ]
[I suspect I am blind... Is it a crow???]
He Weiyou immediately turned over. The first thing he did was to pick up the motorcycle. He took one look and determined that it was unusable - there was a hole in the front of the motorcycle. If it could still run, he would not believe He. The second thing he did was to help the person in the back seat up: "Are you okay?"
Shi Yu fell on the snow, and for a moment his mind went blank and his vision went dark. It took him several seconds to regain his sight, and he glanced at the front of the motorcycle.
There was a crow lying under the tire, its internal organs were crushed flat, there was a pool of blood under its body, and its black hair was scattered all over the ground.
Just now, this crow suddenly swooped down and crashed the motorcycle. The whole process was so outrageous that it seemed like a joke.
The fact that the motorcycle was unusable was secondary. After a few seconds of delay, the army of infected people chasing from behind had caught up, and together with the infected people in front who were attracted by the sound of the collision, they formed a pincer attack from the front and back.
Dancing and bloody.
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