Chapter 42: Blatant Killing
Visibility in the forest was low, and by the time the two men reached the corner, the farmer had disappeared.
Li Ziyue breathed a sigh of relief, but his brows were still furrowed. He rubbed the corner of his clothes with his fingers and felt a cold and damp chill coming from it.
The deeper you go, the more humidity there is in the air.
From a distance you can hear a "dong dong" sound, but when you get closer you can hear another long-echoing sound of water hitting a hard object.
Li Ziyue was not sure whether it was the sound of water. After all, the amount of water used in this copy was strictly controlled, but... it was indeed very humid here, so it was not impossible that there was a pool of water.
Zhang Lian followed behind and said "hmm" without any surprise.
"I know you want to pretend to walk over there by accident," he pursed his lips, "so I deliberately helped you bring up the topic of Sun Yuancheng, which has nothing to do with the current situation, so that the content of the conversation would cover up your real intentions."
Li Ziyue seemed to be laughing: "It's a pity that we are not in the same world, otherwise we can be bound together when we go to dungeons. You are quite good at cooperation."
Zhang Lian nodded calmly: "By the way, I can also teach you English."
Li Ziyue: "... Zhang Lian, take a mask from your backpack and put it on. You are not allowed to talk in this copy."
[I am convinced, why can’t the anchor be banned from speaking if he can’t win the argument?]
[Humph, actually, I’m really happy, just waiting for Zhang Lian to teach me.]
[You don't understand, Brother Li can't learn well? His ability is just sealed temporarily, and when it's a dark and windy night, when he kills people and burns things...]
[So scary, the room manager, please quickly silence that Chuunibyou guy in front of you]
Zhang Lianzhen took out two masks from his backpack, put one on himself and handed one to Li Ziyue.
“The air smells bad.”
When closing his backpack, he looked at the row of candies in the item column that were marked "Not usable in this copy" and made a "tsk" sound with some impatience.
Li Ziyue ignored him. He put on his mask and walked lightly towards the source of the strange sound.
There were fewer and fewer bodies hanging on the branches along the way.
Perhaps because of the mask, the stench in the air became thinner, but the fog was still thick.
As we got closer, we could see that the number of trees in front of us had dropped sharply. They were probably cut down by the roots, revealing a large circular open space with several black objects stuck in it.
This scene was not static. Li Ziyue narrowed his eyes and made sure that he really saw several long black shadows wandering in front of him.
They first stood in front of the black object, then their "shadows" broke in half and suddenly fell forward, and were swallowed up by the object in the blink of an eye.
Then.
“Boom!”
A few subtle sounds of water were hidden behind.
Come closer and take a look.
A head that was almost rotten into pieces, a shoulder with a corner missing, bent legs, and thin clothes that stuck to the skin because of water.
Another bunch of zombies.
The black objects also became visible, and turned out to be several protruding wells.
The well is very deep, but the water stored below is shallow. When a corpse falls in, the first thing you hear is the loud thud of flesh hitting the hard stone at the bottom of the well. Only when you get closer can you hear the tiny sound of water produced as a result.
These corpses...why were they thrown into the well?
Li Ziyue felt that the "throwing oneself into a well" incident was somewhat familiar, as if he had heard of it somewhere.
What does throwing oneself into a well mean?
The sound of water gradually became inaudible, and the sound of the corpses jumping into the well turned into the muffled sound of flesh/bodies colliding. Perhaps there were several layers of corpses piled at the bottom of the well, which softened the sound.
The corpses piled higher and higher, and the sound of impact gradually decreased, until it was so small that it sounded like a feather falling to the ground.
Bodies were no longer dumped into the well.
Li Ziyue saw several trembling black hands reaching out from the well that was overflowing with corpses.
They groped slowly at the mouth of the well, and then a half-missing head emerged.
The corpses shook wildly like sieves for a few times, then crawled out of the well along the edge.
The corpse below pulled the clothes of the corpse above, and in this way they were cleverly connected together and gradually got out of the well.
After all the bodies crawled out, they wandered around the well in confusion, and then -
“Boom!”
Jump down again.
[No... why are you still doing circuit training...]
[It looks a bit scary... but I want to laugh...]
[What a joke! I have to say these zombies are really strong]
[I hope I can still be this resistant to falls when I’m old (I guess the point is wrong!)]
Li Ziyue looked at everything in front of him with confusion.
A bit confused.
Zhang Lian next to him seemed to be watching a sheep jumping over a fence. He half closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep due to hypnosis from the repetitive operation.
Li Ziyue was about to walk in, when the next moment he suddenly felt goose bumps all over his body.
Before he had time to think, he heard a faint sound of breaking wind, and his hand had already blocked the man.
Li Ziyue's eyes were cold.
The farmer opened his broken eyes with a confused expression on his face.
"Thank you for your help."
He was talking about helping to cut the rope that was hanging the zombie.
The system made a sound in Li Ziyue's mind.
[Congratulations on completing the 'Farmer's Revenge' mission. All players will receive 100 points as a reward. I wish you a happy game]
Li Ziyue still didn't relax his tense nerves.
It's not his fault for being too cautious. Most people would be overly sensitive when they are in a deep forest with corpses constantly jumping into wells nearby.
"Let's go," the farmer didn't care about Li Ziyue's scrutiny of him. He just put away the scissors and walked out. "I believe you don't want to stay in a forest with such a strong smell of corpses for too long."
Li Ziyue stood there, hesitating whether to move, but Zhang Lian, who had been silent the whole time, walked straight towards him.
He naturally stretched his hand into the air, his fingertips touching the back of Li Ziyue's hand, which was getting colder, but she just pulled his sleeve.
"You don't have to worry."
His voice was calm, yet inexplicably convincing.
Zhang Lian's emotions were as stable as the thin spring rain that quietly fell on a spring night.
It feels slightly cool when it falls on people, but you don’t feel cold. Your mood becomes calm with the slow spring rain.
The restlessness in Li Ziyue's mind was calmed down a little by his action. He glanced down at Zhang Lian's hand that was pulling his sleeve, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally said nothing and let him pull it.
The three of them followed the path out of the forest, only then did they realize that the sunlight at the foot of the mountain was so dazzling.
From a high place, you can see several black dots moving in the village that has sunk to the bottom. They should be players looking for land to cultivate.
Where is Sun Yuancheng?
Li Ziyue couldn't help but think.
At the edge of the village, a few black spots could be seen mixed together. Li Ziyue seemed to have sensed something and his heart was beating rapidly.
He squinted his eyes and then saw clearly.
Several people were fighting, and the person hiding in the back was holding a hoe that shone brightly in the sun, and then -
“Puff——”
Blood splattered, tiny bits of flesh collided and scattered in the air, and then, like a gorgeously blooming giant carnivorous plant, a black and red firework spread out in all directions on the ground.
Naked massacre.
Li Ziyue suddenly felt tinnitus and buzzing in his head, and the next moment he felt a chill on his little finger.
Zhang Lian gently held his hand.
Only then did Li Ziyue suppress the nausea in his stomach.
From their clothes, we can identify that the murderers are villagers, and the one who was brutally killed is a player.
Did Liu Fengfeng die like this?
He felt a pain in his heart and his breathing was no longer smooth.
"Are my poor compatriots cruel by nature or are they forced to be cruel by this terrible environment?" The farmer sighed for a long time. "This question is as difficult to think about as whether the chicken or the egg came first. Maybe the chicken and the egg were born at the same time..."
[Oh, this old man is still a philosopher]
[I really didn’t want to go to class when I woke up this morning. I thought for five minutes about why people live. It seems that I am also a philosopher.]
[I am dying of laughter. I am really impressed. Every time I am scared to the point of getting goosebumps, I am made to laugh by your crazy comments.]
[Some friends said it was too scary and they couldn’t sleep after watching the live broadcast. We, the happy comments, are contributing to the cause of human sleep.]
Li Ziyue was stunned.
He originally thought that the farmers had a strong hatred towards the villagers living at the foot of the mountain.
It is known that zombies biting a player will only remove the side effect of the player being drenched in rain. In other words, zombies are harmless or even beneficial to the player.
So who are we protecting by planting plants?
By process of elimination, we get the answer “villagers”.
Combined with the previous mission name - "Farmers' Revenge", Li Ziyue became more certain of his guess.
However, the farmer's words made him doubt his conclusion.
It's not so much that he hates them, but rather that he is disappointed with the villagers.
This farmer is very different from the villagers down the mountain.
Li Ziyue followed behind him, looking at his back with a dark and ambiguous look.
The previous question came back to his mind.
Is this farmer dead?
If it was a dead person...he would be...
The sudden sound of people falling behind him interrupted Li Ziyue's thoughts.
The farmer in front stopped and walked quickly towards the direction of the sound without hesitation.
Li Ziyue held Zhang Lian's hand tightly and pulled him to follow the farmer without saying anything.
Zhang Lian was obediently led by Li Ziyue, but his eyes were not on the ground. Instead, he was staring at the hand that Li Ziyue was holding him.
Many difficult scenes from the past flashed through his mind one by one, but they were all gently soothed by the warmth coming from Li Ziyue's hand at that moment.
He recalled the questions the farmer had repeatedly asked him two years ago and last night when Li Ziyue was unconscious.
Two years ago, Zhang Lian gave that answer without hesitation, and he did not regret it when he answered it a second time last night.
Nor will it be in the future.
The sound of falling came from the doorway of a thatched house. Several zombies were lying twitching under the door. The broken rusty door lock fell on the other side. The farmer sighed tiredly and helped the fallen zombies up.
Through the crack in the door, Li Ziyue was able to see everything in the room.
The room was filled with zombies.
The zombies in the innermost part were about to touch the rotten ceiling, and at the same time, the strong stench of corpses hit them in the face.
Li Ziyue noticed that these zombies were holding a cylindrical plastic bottle with unclear packaging.
There was some liquid left in the bottle, which was invaded by moss and turned yellow-green at the bottom.
The zombie who was still wriggling on the ground raised the bottle in his hand, then put it to his mouth, raised his head slightly, and tilted the bottle slightly.
Made a gesture of drinking water.
In an instant, everything was connected together, and Li Ziyue suddenly understood where the previous sense of familiarity came from.
There were zombies hanging from tree branches by their necks in the woods, zombies jumping into wells, and zombies lying on the ground as if drinking water...
The voice of the past system sounded in my mind.
[The long-term drought and sudden floods have made the farmers in the village miserable. The crops they have worked hard to cultivate have been destroyed by the bad weather. The young people who have gone out to find a way out have never returned.
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.
The rusty door creaked, and Li Ziyue's hands hanging by his side clenched quietly.
If you complete the main quest, you can leave the dungeon early and no longer have to be exposed to the rain or sun.
Li Ziyue's gaze fell without leaving a trace on the farmer who was bending over and busy.
He had a strong smell of rotting corpses.
The system popped up a window.
Question 1: [Hello, player Li Ziyue, do you want to make a judgment on the main quest?]
[Please select your answer below: Yes or No (select No to end all options)]
Question 2: [(If you choose 'yes' in question 1) Hello, player Li Ziyue, do you choose the farmer in front of you as the answer to the main task?]
[Please select your answer below: Yes or No (The final answer can only be selected once, please choose carefully, if the answer is wrong, you will be severely punished)]
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