Chapter 53 Do You Need Marriage Blessings?
The thunder covered the bride's breathing, which prevented Li Ziyue from noticing anything unusual the moment he entered the room.
“Ahem…”
Li Ziyue was so excited that he couldn't help coughing twice. After he recovered his strength, he pushed the woman in his arms to the ground.
The woman, who fell into a brief coma due to excessive bleeding, rolled twice on the ground and happened to hit the table where the candles were placed. Her back was facing Li Ziyue and her body was curled up due to rolling.
Small in stature, like a child.
Li Ziyue let out a cold click of his tongue.
Why didn't he think that besides children, those with petite figures also include old people whose bones shrink as they age!
Now everything can be figured out.
It was not surprising that [Li Ziyue] knew that he might be in this predicament. He was a copy NPC himself, and it was not difficult for him to get this information. Ji Mingyun knew that he would "kill people", most likely because [Li Ziyue] told him in advance, and one thing that could not be explained at the time was, why did the old woman also know all this?
He recalled what the old woman whispered sinisterly in his ear when he took his umbrella and left the house last night.
"You will kill her."
Li Ziyue felt a chill in his heart and a layer of cold sweat appeared on his back.
It turns out that there was a reminder at that time.
He was misled by the two points of "short stature" and "no children in the village" and focused on this side, completely forgetting to guard against the other side.
But this old woman was alive and well, why did she want to commit suicide?
Li Ziyue's eyes became colder and colder as he saw his blood-stained fingers trembling in the cold wind.
"Let's go! Catch the murderer!"
The players in front roared with excitement.
Everyone rushed over, but before they got close, they saw Li Ziyue leap lightly to the window.
The cold wind outside blew his clothes, and the hems danced flexibly in the air.
Some players were stunned.
"You...how can you still move..."
Shouldn't!
None of the players who were discovered by everyone last night can move freely.
Those people seemed to have their hands and feet chopped off in an instant. They could only stand there helplessly, waiting for others to tie them up.
Li Ziyue curled the corners of his lips, and the night wind blew the ends of his hair into small curls.
"I certainly didn't expect there would be a 'bride', but it would be foolish for me to leave myself only one layer of protection in one matter."
He looked down at everyone.
"Didn't you notice that something is missing..." Li Ziyue pretended to think, "The sound?"
A clever person in the crowd shouted: "Bell! Bell! There is no bell tonight..."
Li Ziyue raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Yes."
After saying this, he no longer paid attention to the players, but took the old woman who had fainted on the side to a corner.
He pinched the old woman's philtrum and tore off half of the cloth from the altar.
"The real murderer is herself." The knife was still stuck in the abdomen. Li Ziyue just put his hand on the handle of the knife, but then let go and just bandaged the other wounds with cloth.
Drawing the knife now would only cause the old woman to bleed more.
Li Ziyue laughed inexplicably: "No wonder the copy is called The Suicidal Peasant, it turns out there is this meaning."
"Hey," he placed his finger on the tip of the old woman's nose, feeling the breath coming from there, "Don't die. I still have something to ask you."
【System: Task ① completed. 】
The old woman was still the same as before. Li Ziyue said impatiently, "You'd better keep yourself alive. If you die, I have ten thousand ways to make the dead speak."
"And you know, only the living can deceive others, the dead cannot deceive others."
He saw the old woman frowned slightly for a moment, Li Ziyue curled the corners of his mouth, and then stood up.
"As for Mission 2," he raised his eyebrows and waved at the players, "If you think I'm guilty, then arrest me. But if you can't catch me..."
Li Ziyue's expression turned cold, "Please leave first."
"Zhang Lian."
Zhang Lian was about to fall asleep leaning in the corner, but was awakened by Li Ziyue's call.
He casually pressed his hand on the table next to him, and the hard stone table top shattered.
Countless tiny stones fell with a crackling sound.
The stone rolled in front of the players, and everyone was so shocked that they dared not move.
Zhang Lian yawned sleepily and looked at the crowd in front of him.
His narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and his tone was bored: "Do you want me to ask you to leave?"
At this moment, those players no longer had the courage to stay here. When disaster struck, they all fled away, coming like the tide and receding like the tide.
In the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the house.
The "smart player" quickly closed the door. He wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead and said, "Finally he left. Brother, you are awesome. How did you know the key was the bell?"
Sun Yuancheng admired him so much that his eyes were full of stars.
Li Ziyue did not answer immediately, but stood up and walked behind the Buddha statue.
As soon as he raised his hand, Zhang Lian handed him a lighted candle.
Zhang Lian wrapped the lower end with a porcelain bowl to prevent the melted wax from falling onto Li Ziyue's hands.
Li Ziyue's eyebrows softened a little.
To be honest, Zhang Lian's words may be irritating, but he is very good at observing people's words and expressions at critical moments. He doesn't even need to say what he wants, the things will naturally be put into his hands.
Li Ziyue raised his hand and knocked on the back of the Buddha statue, and heard layers of echoes coming from inside.
With the help of the candlelight, he saw dense lines on the back of the Buddha statue. Following the lines, he saw a circular depression.
Li Ziyue picked up a sharp piece of porcelain and rubbed it carefully.
The porcelain pieces scraped across the Buddha statue, making a hypnotic rustling sound.
Only then did Li Ziyue have time to explain.
"It seems that the mission [Judge's Knife] has been completed, but in fact there are still many doubts."
Li Ziyue pulled the porcelain piece downwards: "The man asked us to cut off the child's head. What is the purpose behind this action?"
"I have two pieces of information related to the child's head. One is the line 'my head is howling' in the poem, and the other is that the bodies of the children buried behind the school had no heads."
"Where did the head go? What was the point of the man being so anxious to have us cut off the head? Afterwards, I returned to the room again and walked into the secret passage inside the test."
His voice dropped. "All the children's heads were found there."
"The heads were tied together to form a huge ball, and at the bottom of the ball was a thick rope."
"Following the direction of the rope, I found a secret passage in the room. This secret passage connected to the room with the bell. Next to the bell were several broken human heads..."
Li Ziyue sighed: "There is blood on Zhong's body. It is obvious that the ball made of human heads is Zhong's head."
"It reminds me of the bells last night. It seems that at every critical point, the bells will ring."
"What does this mean? I don't agree with the idea that the bell is just for atmosphere and just to scare people."
He rubbed a tiny hole in the Buddha statue. Li Ziyue held the porcelain piece upright, pointed the sharp end at the hole, and gradually increased the strength of his hand: "Later I asked Duan Jiayi and the others, and learned that the bell rang seven times last night."
"There will be one sound when the temple rises from the ground, and another sound when it sinks down, which leaves exactly five sounds... and the number five corresponds to the five brides and players who died."
In fact, there is one thing that Li Ziyue did not explain, and this clue comes from his own side quest.
The first time he thought of the bell, he only regarded it as a countdown mark - in his side quest scene, not long after the bell rang, the villagers and players who came to attack broke down the door.
Later, thinking about it carefully, combined with the title [The Judge's Sword] and other information, it can be inferred that the bell may be a "rule" for God to implement judgment.
There are invisible rules in this copy, such as "villagers cannot kill each other", so the man asks them to chop off the children's heads, "three wolves and three sheep", the number of players is less than the villagers, and the villagers can kill the players unconditionally.
Whenever there is murder involved, there is at least one hidden clause.
And this clause may once again be a guarantee for Li Ziyue to escape.
Despite this, the above is still Li Ziyue's speculation.
Trying to prevent the bride from entering the room was the first layer of protection he arranged, and the ringing of the bell was the second.
However, theory without practice to test it is just an empty shell, so the third level requires him to use his own eyes to turn theory into practical proof.
Before entering the Buddha statue room, he explored the surrounding area.
First of all, tonight seems to be particularly harmonious. It is already halfway through the night and there is no one on the gallows.
This conflicts particularly with the hatred between players in the evening.
Factors such as snatching water resources and sending players to the gallows to get food constantly urge players to frame each other. Logically, the gallows should not be so deserted.
Is it just as simple as not having a bride?
No.
Even if there is no bride, the player who does everything can "create" a bride.
Cover the girl with red cloth, put on red clothes, knock the villagers unconscious and send them to the temple, and she can be called "bride".
The more cautious ones captured children who had not been taken away by the villagers from the basement, and forced them to disguise themselves as brides. They also captured innocent players, locked them up together, and then rushed in from outside to carry out justice.
However, it was all in vain.
The trial was abruptly suspended tonight.
Taking all the reasons into consideration, the most likely reason is that there are no bells tonight.
The space behind the Buddha statue was completely cracked, and there was no barrier anymore. Even with heavy rain and roaring thunder, Li Ziyue could still hear a small suppressed cry coming from deep within the Buddha statue.
It was snow-white all over, emitting a bright light in the endless darkness, and its thin body kept shaking against the wall.
The "evil god" that the villagers had been preaching against turned out to be a baby who could only hide in the dark and cry quietly.
Sensing the light outside, it slowly turned its head and looked into Li Ziyue's eyes.
Then he stretched his hand upwards, his tiny fingers curled and stretched in the air, his arms trembled, and he made a "hug" gesture towards Li Ziyue, showing that he needed support.
Li Ziyue reached out to catch it.
The moment you touch its skin, the light from it becomes stronger, gradually making it impossible to open your eyes.
Then, the outer shell of the tall Buddha statue exploded instantly.
The sound of rain stopped without any struggle.
Strangely, the rain actually penetrated into the extremely hard yellow soil.
The entire temple was shaking, the terrifying lightning dissipated in the clouds, the thunder gradually faded away, and finally sank into silence between the vast sky and earth.
The vision suddenly became extremely bright.
Li Ziyue rubbed his sore eyes, opened them and saw yellow earth, dead grass, cirrus clouds and the scorching sun.
The weather is not as hot as before, and the occasional breeze still brings a hint of coolness.
He stood on the long road, surrounded by golden wheat waves blown by the wind.
This morning his father gave him a new hoe and asked him to loosen the field at the entrance of the village.
Li Ziyue walked along the river bank, realizing that he had entered into the plot experience again.
But he clearly didn't break the main plot.
What's going on?
The hoe hit the yellow earth with a "bang". The ground was like an iron wall without any flaws. Li Ziyue's wrist was hurt by the shock and he felt that the tip of the hoe was about to bend, but the ground remained motionless.
The ecology of this land has actually become so bad that it is beyond repair, and Li Ziyue doesn't understand why he should continue to work on it.
The seedlings that were forced into the plants are half dead, and with this weather, it is only a matter of time before they all die.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead and leaned against a tree beside the field to enjoy the cool air.
That's when he met him.
The man was about seventeen or eighteen years old. He wore a tattered straw hat that he had picked up from somewhere, and his feet were on the yellow earth covered with wind and sand. He was wearing a white robe.
Li Ziyue was surprised that this man didn't feel hot. When he got closer and looked at his skin, he was even more surprised.
Under the scorching sun, he came a long way, and his clothes were as white as the snow on the top of the mountain.
He raised the front of his straw hat and looked into the eyes of Li Ziyue who was leaning against a tree.
Then he extended his hand and smiled at Li Ziyue: "Hello."
"Do you need a marriage blessing?"
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