Chapter 25: Research on Farmer Suicide
If you stay outside, you will be "burned" to death by the rain sooner or later. However, is it really okay to go in?
Several players clearly remembered how the seemingly kind old woman dragged out Liu Fengfeng who had been sucked dry.
At that time, her lower body was covered in blood, and her ankles were left with scratches from Liu Fengfeng when he was crawling and struggling on the ground.
She smiled like this at that time.
To go in or not to go in?
The leading player hesitated and slowed down his pace. The players who didn't know the truth also became suspicious.
In fact, this problem is very simple. The more Li Zi mixed in the crowd, the shorter his body would be, allowing the tall players to block some of the rain for him.
If you don't go in, you will die immediately. If you go in, you will have to wait a while before dying. It depends on whether the player wants to die a good death or live on for the time being.
Some players have already understood this and immediately walked in.
The villagers seemed to be afraid of the rain as well. They all hunched their backs, took small steps, and quickly entered the room, like nimble loaches.
Players and villagers were pushing and shoving at the door, and a second conflict seemed about to break out.
At the same time, the cold system sound rang in the minds of all players.
[Drought and flood periods have been unlocked, and the main quest is now released to you]
[Instance name]
The farmer who committed suicide
【Background Story】
The long-term drought and sudden floods have made the farmers in the village miserable. The crops they worked hard to cultivate were destroyed by the bad weather, and the young people who left to find a way out never came back.
Hunger, disease, lack of water, loneliness
Compared to biological sons, poison sons (drinking pesticides), rope sons (hanging), water sons (jumping into water) are more reliable.
Finally, he kicked the bench away, and waved his old hands feebly in the air.
He hanged himself on the beam of the house, becoming the first farmer in the village to commit suicide.
[Customs clearance requirements]
Find the farmer who committed suicide first among the villagers
【Clearance Rewards】
Guaranteed 8,000 points, with a certain chance of dropping [Real World] fragments and one of the six superpowers
[Warm Tips]: This dead villager is hiding among the villagers. He can breathe.
What's the meaning? !
Several players near the door suddenly stopped moving, their frightened eyes unconsciously shifting to the villagers passing by them.
The hunched villagers were also drenched by the rain, but they did not cry out or feel any pain. Their yellow earthy faces were scalded red by the water, and their dry lips were deathly pale.
They seemed to carry a sticky and damp smell of death, which made people tremble inside.
There's a dead person hiding inside?!
What a joke! Can a dead person breathe?!
…
The more Li Zi leaned against the dusty earth wall, the darker the color of the soil behind him became, already wet from the rain on his back.
There were drops of water hanging between his brows, and his eyes seemed to be filled with a layer of hazy mist. The corners of his eyes were stained with an intoxicating pink due to the heat of his body, while his face became paler, making his lips look even redder.
Finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, he opened the system and called up his own live broadcast room.
The live broadcast room is set up so that viewers can only reward players when the copy is over, so it is not a big problem to start a little later.
When the show just started and there weren't many people around, Li Ziyue enabled the barrage permission and let the few people who were waiting for his show to chat with each other.
[I am so amused. Who asked the anchor how to write an essay on rural revitalization? The anchor went so far as to cultivate the land himself.]
[The host has cleared this instance. In the future, you will not lose points for doing local reading comprehension.]
[No, this dungeon is so dangerous, how come you are not afraid at all? Do you trust the host so much? ]
[What's the point of being afraid in front of the screen? We might as well say something funny to liven up the atmosphere.]
[This stupid system doesn’t allow real-time reward points. Even if the anchor is about to die, we can only double-click 666 to make the anchor die in a more lively way.]
【……】
He lifted up the strands of hair on his forehead, making him look less docile and more fierce.
Li Ziyue knew that the audience was talking about something indecent without even looking at the comments. He closed the system interface, hid himself in a corner, his eyelashes drooping, his lips pursed into a line, and quietly looked at everything around him.
The room was not small, and he could not see everything at a glance. He could only see the people in front of him.
After a rough count, there were eleven people in total, including men, women, young and old, with grim expressions on their faces. Several skinny villagers lined up in a row and huddled in a dark corner of the house, like a tattered wardrobe that had been abandoned for a long time.
The hard work during the day and the hasty shelter from the rain at night have made the players exhausted. Now the undried rain sticking to their bodies through the fabric of their clothes makes them feel even more uncomfortable.
Up to now, there are many players who are hungry and have not had a drop of water.
It was only half a day, and many people were already too exhausted to struggle. The rain outside was pouring down, flooding over the bodies of several dead players.
No one had the energy to speak, and everyone fell silent again, but their eyes were intentionally or unintentionally looking at the villagers huddled in the corner.
Exactly…who is the dead person hiding inside the living?
The old woman walked slowly to the back of the house and called her son a few times. The young man then brought her a large basin of smelly stuff with a gloomy face.
Someone couldn't help but exclaim in surprise - the basin was full of boneless red meat, and it was impossible to tell what animal it was from. The thighs and buttocks were the most plump, and every time the old woman reached out to touch them, sticky blood would flow out from there.
"vomit……"
There were retching sounds all around. Under the strong stimulation of vision and smell, everyone's stomach was churning. Some people covered their eyes and noses, but even so, the smell still penetrated into the nasal cavity through the gaps and seemed to reach the skull...
The old woman laughed strangely at everyone, then scooped a ladle of yellowish-brown liquid from the rainwater tank outside and poured it into the basin.
When the skins came into contact with the strange rain, they made a series of "hissing" sounds. They shrank unconsciously, their edges curled up, and white smoke rose along with the sound.
The old woman grabbed one side and with a "rip" sound, she quickly tore off the broken animal skin and threw it on the ground.
She looked at everyone, her eyeballs jumping up and down abnormally in her sockets.
She licked the corners of her cracked lips and said, "Guests, please watch carefully. You will need these skins later."
These people were all horrified.
What? !
Why would they use the skin of something like this...
Li Ziyue was in no mood to dwell on this issue, because——
There seem to be even bigger troubles and hidden dangers outside.
His hearing was more sensitive than that of ordinary people. At this moment, through the thick walls and rain curtains, he could vaguely hear the fast-paced "bang bang bang" sounds, like a group of something running.
He moved towards the window of the room without leaving a trace.
But just this one glance made him feel like he was falling into an icy cave.
As early as when he was strolling in the village, Li Ziyue discovered that the location of this village was very strange.
Surrounded by bare yellow sand mountains, the village is sunken into them like a small stone at the bottom of an hourglass.
It is difficult to get out, but it is easy for people outside the mountain to come in. If someone with ulterior motives rolls down huge rocks from the top of the surrounding mountains, it will be difficult for people in the village to escape and they can only wait to die.
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't understand why the first group of builders of the village chose this place.
Now, the "boulder" is coming -
In the dim twilight, the top of the mountain was covered with a row of densely packed things.
The thing was of different heights, and in the dim moonlight, one could see the small round dot at the top trembling constantly.
Something rolled down the hillside like sea water. The front end had already "spread" to the middle of the mountain, with a large amount of overflow at the back. The rumbling sound became heavier and more chaotic.
“Crack!”
A dazzling silver-yellow lightning flashed in the clouds, illuminating the unknown object rolling down from the top of the mountain clearly.
They had their heads drooped, with some colorless cloth hanging on their bodies. Their bodies were extremely twisted, and some of their limbs were broken, leaving only pale frames crawling on the ground like worms. More of them were running frantically on the hillside, heading towards them.
That's a person.
No, not at all.
Their strange walking posture and damaged body tissues indicate that they cannot be normal living people.
Those things, rather than being human, looked more like zombies that looked like they were eating humans.
The player leaning against the window also noticed something strange and was immediately frightened out of his wits. He couldn't help but scream, and it seemed like he was crying.
The voice sounded familiar, and Li Ziyue couldn't help but turn his eyes.
The two people's eyes met, and suddenly——
"Sun Yuancheng?"
"elder brother!"
The stone in Sun Yuancheng's heart finally fell to the ground. He rolled and crawled to Li Ziyue's legs, hugged one of his thighs very skillfully, and began to cry bitterly.
"Brother, you don't know, without you, I'm having a very hard time..."
Li Ziyue was also stunned, which was unusual.
The folks in the live broadcast room were also stunned.
【6……】
[Sun Yuancheng, this kid, died at the beginning of the first dungeon, and let the fake person hide hard. In the end, Brother Li killed the fake person and he was resurrected. This reversal shocked the audience in his live broadcast room again and again. During the period of rewarding points, his live broadcast room never stopped firing rockets...]
[Oh my god, I heard about this too, it's really outrageous, the best winner by doing nothing]
[Is this true? How can he be so lucky? Who is the protagonist of this infinite flow novel? Is it Sun Yuancheng? ]
Hiss...Sun Yuancheng is indeed lucky. Generally speaking, it is an extremely low probability event for two people to be matched into the same copy again.
Sun Yuancheng did not forget to care about the current situation while crying. He pointed his trembling fingers at the edge of the mountain and said timidly: "Those weird things..."
The other players were also attracted by him, and they all trembled in their hearts when they saw the zombies on the hillside.
The old woman still leisurely put the chopped meat into the stew pot. The lit hay underneath was burning slowly, and the water in the pot was boiling with a gurgling sound.
Li Ziyue felt heavier than ever before, and his fingertips hanging by his side were rubbing against each other unconsciously.
Inside the house stood an old woman cooking meat, outside was a torrential rain that burned people's skin, and on the hillside in the distance were countless zombies...
Where is the way out?
The shadow of death hangs over everyone's heart.
I finally made it through the day, could this be...
The violent raindrops were flying wildly, and a fourth sound quietly emanated from the hard soil on the ground—“Puff, puff.”
Li Ziyue was stunned.
The ground outside the house was cracking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then several thin green strips of objects emerged from the cracks.
The strip-like object grew and differentiated rapidly, and a little red suddenly appeared at the top. The red suddenly expanded and turned into several giant petals.
The flower had its back to them and its front facing the zombies running on the hillside, with its petals in a hugging position.
At this moment, the players hiding in the house finally understood the use of the seedlings planted during the day.
Sun Yuancheng leaned against the window, muttering in shock: "Oh my god... Plants vs. Zombies: Zombies become zombies."
Everyone was trapped in the house, listening to the noisy sound of flowing water and the sounds similar to those of wild beasts biting, their emotions were up and down and they were unable to express themselves.
Someone with a positive attitude said: "Fortunately, I planted the plants well at that time. It turned out to be the right thing to listen to the system warning."
"I will never complain about the hard work of tilling the land again. You know, there will be this thing at night except when it rains. I wish I could plant ten!"
"That's right, oh my god... those things are really... they give me goosebumps..."
Although some people tried to relax the atmosphere, everyone at the scene was still on edge.
No one was really relieved.
It now seems that the three difficult problems have only been half solved.
Li Ziyue didn't say anything, but shifted his gaze slightly to look to the other side.
Through the window, and across one or two short houses, he could vaguely see the back of the XX Hope Primary School classroom in the distance, which was where he had found the child's body earlier.
Things also emerged from the land there, but they were not plants, but small bone people that were quickly pieced together to form humans.
The head was missing, only the upper body was left. They waved their hands high in the air, forming a pale wall of human bones.
The first batch of zombies have already attacked the village. The skeleton men slid through the soft soil soaked in water and rushed towards the zombies at an extremely fast speed.
For a moment, the bones and rotten human flesh grappled with each other.
Such a scene made Li Ziyue frown slightly.
Very strange.
According to what the old woman said before, the evil god eats the children in the village, and the villagers hate the evil god. However, why do the corpses of the dead children hold hands to form a fence to protect the village from zombies invading from outside?
It seems that letting the evil spirit eat the child is actually a good thing for these villagers...
The rain was pouring down and the wind was bitingly cold outside the window, but there was a strange warmth and fragrance lingering in the house.
The meat cooked by the old woman is almost cooked. The aroma of the meat coupled with the animal oil overflowing from the bone marrow is the most shameful temptation for some hungry players.
They couldn't suppress their hunger and their instinct to find food, but their reason did not forget to restrain themselves - the old woman had previously tortured Liu Fengfeng to the point where he was unrecognizable, so could what she was cooking now be something good?
However……
The rumbling of stomachs and the unconcealable swallowing of saliva could be heard quietly in every corner of the house.
The expressions of that small group of people changed slightly, and they all showed varying degrees of stiffness. Their eyes were even more horrifying. The black eyeball in the middle shrank slightly, and the sides were filled with red bloodshot of excitement. The sides of their cheeks seemed to be sunken, and the sides of their lips unconsciously rose up, revealing two openings that were about to drip saliva.
Like a mad beast lurking in the night.
Fortunately, only a few people had such an unusual reaction, and the others were able to hold back. Looking at the expressions of those people, they all showed disgust and worry.
But this is only the first day.
This was Sun Yuancheng's second time in a dungeon. He had never seen such a scene before. He hooked his hand around the corner of Li Ziyue's clothes and hid behind him: "Eh... they really... seem to be going crazy..."
Li Ziyue's face turned slightly cold.
It seems that apart from zombies, weather and villagers, the fourth threat is these players who seem to be losing their minds.
Those people were still testing the waters, their eyes rolling in their sockets, waiting for the first person to step forward and try the new thing - he's eaten it, so why can't I?
"Bang!"
There was a sound of bowls and chopsticks knocking against each other, and a thin villager who had been sitting by the wall stood up tremblingly, holding a half-broken stainless steel bowl and chopsticks with black tips in his hands, and pouted at the old woman: "...Give me some..."
He looked at the meat in the pot greedily, his eyes were as red as blood moons, and his unsteady steps gradually quickened.
Then, there were several rustling sounds, and several unconscious players quietly moved along the wall towards the old woman...
The stagnant atmosphere in the room grew thicker.
At this moment, a sharp and piercing suona sound suddenly came from outside, penetrating through the cracked window and straight into everyone's ears.
Everyone in the room froze.
The suona began to play loudly, but the tone was hoarse and mocking, and the gongs and drums followed closely behind. Li Ziyue took a peek through the gap in the window, and this glance made him suddenly stunned.
It was a rainy night and the villagers and players were hiding in their houses. Outside, there were a few white men in red clothes walking around. Their faces were pale, like paper figures. Four strong men stood in a square, carrying a red sedan on their shoulders and walking quickly in the water.
The person playing the accompaniment led the way at the front. There was a window the size of a human head on one side of the sedan chair. The window was covered by a thick blood curtain, so it was impossible to see what was inside.
However, just as the sedan was about to pass by Li Ziyue's house, the window in front of him inexplicably opened by itself.
The old window made a loud noise, and a cold wind mixed with rain rolled in, attracting the attention of the people in the house unconsciously.
At this moment, the curtain on one side of the sedan chair that was about to pass by was suddenly lifted from the inside.
Revealing the face of the bride before she puts on the red veil.
She had an unpainted fair face, thin eyebrows, thick long eyelashes that trembled slightly to cover the alluring almond-shaped eyes below, a straight nose, and thin rosy lips. Although she was a bride, her expression was cold, which added to the feeling of being reluctant but also willing.
A beautiful silver hairpin was lazily inserted in her ink-black hair, and the tassels on the hairpin trembled with the movement of the sedan chair.
She doesn't want to seduce, but she already looks radiant.
However, Li Ziyue had no intention of appreciating this stunning beauty.
His expression was frozen and he stared at the bride who was looking at him.
Thunder roared on a rainy night, water rushed down one path after another, the cold wind howled, and in the gray night, his heart beat in unison with the clashing gongs and drums.
Li Ziyue pursed his lips together and struggled to squeeze out the name that he thought could not possibly appear here.
"... Zhang Lian."
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