Chapter 54: Happy Event in the Mountain Village 14: Blood Sacrifice, Extremely Evil...
"It's obvious that the couple, the programmer named Cheng Lin, and Wang Quanmin didn't tell the truth," An Rao said as he sat on the edge of his "Queen's" bed. "We don't have to be nice people and go down. Time is running out. Let's divide the work and find the stamp and get out as soon as possible."
An Rao coughed a few times and continued, "Comparing Wei Ronger and Fang Qingqing, there are three differences. There are no bridal items in Wei Ronger's room, but there are embroidered shoes under Fang Qingqing's bed. Fang Qingqing heard Wei Ronger humming a song before her death, which proves that she found some clues that are beneficial to her, but Fang Qingqing did not behave abnormally, at least not on the surface. There is a round spot without dust in Wei Ronger's room, but not in Fang Qingqing's room. This is very strange."
"The strangest thing is the red dot on my forehead. I didn't take any strange objects but I was dotted with a red dot. What does the red dot mean?" Shi Yirou did not shy away from the horrific mark on her body. "If the death rules are the same, then it is impossible to have different characteristics after triggering the death rules. I have been through four amusement projects, and all of them were deduced from the same death rules. It is reasonable for a game to correspond to only one death rule in an amusement park, just like a roller coaster is a high-speed roll, and a bungee jump is a high-altitude fall. Why does this haunted house have several death rules?"
Yes, even the mazes with different death rules before belong to two completely different systems. The maze has its own death rules, and hide-and-seek has its own death rules. They do not exist in the same game. Although the pirate ship has more than one death rule, there is only one main line rule. The other death rules are explicit, such as "Save Food". There are never more than two death rules that need to be deduced and found. Baichuan thought for a while, and suddenly froze, then looked up and met Shang Anrao's thoughtful eyes.
unless……
"It's not just the ghost bride who kills people," they said in unison.
"Ah! So there are two bosses?!" Children are children. They were just glaring at others at the dinner table, but now they become cowardly.
"Let's divide the work quickly!" Shi Yirou was a little anxious.
"We are now only inferring that taking the ghost bride's things will trigger the death rule. The most bizarre thing about this game is that we still don't know the bride's name and her story. The villagers' behavior of favoring girls over boys is very different from the real society. I think the most urgent task is to find the bride's name and dig out her story. The whole haunted house should be able to solve the mystery."
"Agree." The others nodded.
"Then, Su Ming and I will go to see the temple and ask around in the village about the bride and the entire Zheng family. Bai Chuan will stay at the Zheng residence and run around, especially to find the little boy we met last time. It's best to get the boy's help. Yi Rou will go to school again and try to find the village history and the map of Xingfu Village. We'll try to find a way to go to the ancestral hall outside the wall."
"Okay." Shi Yirou and Su Ming nodded.
"I'll switch with Su Ming. I'll go to the temple with you." Bai Chuan interrupted, then looked at An Rao's puzzled eyes, "Su Ming is a child, and it's easier to get children to talk to you."
That’s right, with Baichuan’s fierce look, the child might start crying as soon as he opens his mouth.
Just as everyone was about to get up and start moving, An Rao suddenly said loudly: "Mirror, don't you find it strange? There is not a single mirror in the entire Zheng residence. How can a family holding a wedding not even prepare a mirror for the guests? If I make a mistake in dressing and offend the host and annoy the NPC, who will be held responsible?"
The other three: “?”
An Rao pointed out the window with his chin, and everyone immediately understood.
"Ahhh, let's go find it right away!"
A few blurry figures outside the window moved and then disappeared.
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If you don't consider this as a haunted house that eats people, the scenery of this small village is actually quite nice. The mountains in the distance are like a delicate ink painting, and the thin clouds are like a veil wrapped around the mountainside, which is very ethereal. The paths in the village are winding, and the black-tiled houses look very ominous, but they look gloomy and simple in the lush green mountains, which complement each other.
"This place is actually quite beautiful," An Rao squinted at the bleak sunlight, "If I could choose, I would like to retire here, sitting on a small bamboo chair, basking in the sun and dozing off, day after day."
"You're going to retire here in a place where there's no sign of living people?" Bai Chuan said with a hint of sarcasm, "In a place where you can't hear a single bird chirping even during the day?"
"Why do you care so much about whether you can hear birds singing in the mountains?" An Rao blinked.
"I'm just sensitive." It was obvious that Baichuan didn't intend to expand on this topic. The country path, which was not paved with asphalt or cement, was covered with dust. It was unknown how long it hadn't rained. After walking for a while, a thin layer of dust covered their leather shoes.
"There is someone in front." Baichuan immediately became alert and pulled An Rao and said.
"It's a good thing that there are people here!" An Rao rubbed his hands excitedly, and then hurried towards the person Bai Chuan mentioned happily, "Auntie! Please wait for me!"
The person walking unsteadily in front was an old lady who was eating at the next table. She showed up at Zheng's house at mealtime every day with her big yellow dog, which was more accurate than the clock on her wristband.
"Oh...you guys are from the city?" The old lady looked An Rao and Bai Chuan up and down, "You city people are born with handsome boys. I have a niece--"
"Auntie, thank you! But I like boys!" An Rao blinked.
Bai Chuan:......
"Ah?" The old lady was obviously frightened and her voice changed.
"So I came here this time, not only to attend the wedding, but also to worship the gods. I heard that the temple here is particularly effective, so I thought of coming here to worship, hoping that my parents can accept the fact that I like boys!" An Rao said this, looking so pitiful.
"Oh, did you hear it from Pearl?" the old lady asked in shock.
"Yes, I heard it from Zheng Zhenzhu!" An Rao nodded vigorously. He finally knew the name of the ghost bride!
"That child... is spoiled by her father," the old lady trembled, "I have a nephew who is a perfect match for her, but she insisted on finding a city guy. Now, after she gets married, how long will it take for her parents to see their daughter again..."
As she spoke, the old lady actually became emotional. She lifted the cloth scarf around her neck and began to wipe her tears.
"Hey, Auntie, please don't say that. Maybe Zhenzhu will take her parents to the city to live a better life in the future? It would be great if Zheng Duoyu could also go to the city to study!"
"That idiot Zheng Duoyu?" The lady's expression, which had just been gentle and affectionate, suddenly turned vicious. "Is a debt collector like him worthy of studying in the city? Bah! He'd better fall down from the building and die one day!"
An Rao: ...
"Duyu is not stupid, he just becomes smart late, all boys are like this..."
Before An Rao could finish his persuasion, he saw the old lady's face getting longer and longer, her eyeballs bulging outwards, her mouth opening wider and wider, and she yelled at An Rao: "Boys are also worthy of studying?! Boys are all ungrateful! They all deserve to die, they all deserve to die!"
As the three words "They all deserve to die" were repeated, the old lady's mouth grew bigger and bigger, until it was big enough to swallow An Rao in one bite.
"Run!" Baichuan pulled An Rao and ran as fast as he could. The old lady began to chase him relentlessly. Her hands with sharp claws scratched An Rao's back several times. An Rao even felt a fishy and wet breath sprayed on the back of his neck.
"Huh...Huh...Why do all the ghosts like to chase me..." After finally getting rid of the old lady, An Rao bent over and supported his knees, panting, "This old lady gets angry too easily, and I didn't say anything!"
"You said boys are good, but you are not allowed to say boys are good here," Bai Chuan looked at him solemnly, "Why did you say you like men?"
"That lady obviously wants to introduce me to a girlfriend! I don't want that. What if she really falls in love with me and leaves me in this haunted house? I have to root out the grass. I am a man and I like men, so the lady can't fall in love with me."
Baichuan was rarely amused, but he raised his head and put away the smile he had finally put on: "We have arrived at the temple."
An Rao followed Bai Chuan's gaze and saw a pitch-black temple standing in front of him. The temple was in an extremely strange cylindrical shape, and its shape actually resembled a well. On the top of the temple was an open eye, and the black and gold vertical pupil was made of an unknown material. Even in the bleak sunlight, it emitted a dazzling light that was difficult to look directly at.
There is an arc-shaped archway facing south of the temple. The bleak sunlight cannot penetrate into the dim interior. Standing outside and looking inside is as if looking into a bottomless abyss. The weird architecture and dim interior make this temple full of evil. It is hard to say what kind of good god is enshrined inside.
"This temple is just like the black house in the village, both are made of wood." An Rao knocked on the outer wall of the temple with his hand in surprise, "Aren't you afraid that the believers will burn down their own house by burning incense?"
"I'll go in and take a look. I'll call you if everything is fine." Baichuan said.
"Okay." An Rao didn't be polite with him. In a dangerous environment, the worst thing to do is to go into danger together, as it is easy to be wiped out as a whole group.
An Rao was standing not far from the temple entrance. Bai Chuan's tall figure was swallowed up by the thick darkness. He felt uneasy for no reason. There was a tree next to the temple. It was impossible to tell what species it was. All its leaves had fallen off, and the black trunk was twisted and coiled, twisting and struggling to point to the gloomy sky.
At this moment, An Rao deeply understood what Bai Chuan said about how unbearable it was to be without the sound of insects or birds. There was not a breath of wind around, and he felt as if he was in a still life painting. His heart collapsed, and An Rao felt as if an invisible hand was pinching his neck tightly. He was almost suffocating.
"Doctor Lin?" As Bai Chuan's voice sounded, Bai Chuan's figure soon appeared under the arch of the temple. All of a sudden, the surroundings that were originally like a still life painting came alive, like a sudden rain in the desert. An Rao was pulled back to the world from the edge of suffocation by him. The stuffiness suddenly disappeared, and he couldn't help but gasp for breath.
"What's inside?" An Rao asked hoarsely.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"It's okay," An Rao cleared his throat and waved his hands as if nothing had happened, "I'm a little thirsty."
Baichuan looked at Anrao suspiciously, and then began to describe the scene he saw inside: "There is a shrine inside, and the statue on the shrine is a snake with black scales and an open mouth."
"That doesn't sound normal," An Rao's expression became a little serious, "Do you remember the wellhead at the bottom of the pirate ship?"
"Remember."
"Do you remember the man you met in the maze? He also had a black snake on his wrist."
"Yeah," Kashiwa nodded, "That man seems to be very comfortable in the game. He doesn't seem to be afraid of the consequences of triggering the death rule."
"Players outside the game may be related to the background settings in the game, and even the games themselves may be related." An Rao looked stern. It seemed that this amusement park was not just a place for eating, sleeping and playing games. Although the amusement park as a whole was an abnormal existence, there should be a natural barrier between the outside and inside of the game, just like virtual reality is fake no matter how real it is. But now we are telling everyone that the monsters in the game actually exist in reality? This is like telling everyone that the aliens in the movie are real. It is something that will directly lead to cognitive collapse.
What does it mean when the same setting appears in different games? What does this snake represent?
An Rao, who had been struggling to save his life, stood in front of the mountain that looked like a dead place, looking at the golden snake eyes on the pitch-black temple in front of him. He suddenly realized that this amusement park might have a deeper plot, which might answer his long-standing question: What exactly supports the operation of this amusement park? What is its purpose?
"I want to go in and take a look." An Rao said, looking at the darkness in the archway.
"Well, it's just right that you can take a look at what I was going to tell you."
As soon as he stepped into the dark temple, An Rao smelled a strange fragrance mixed with a faint fishy smell. After his eyes slowly adjusted to the dimness of the temple, he found that there was a giant black python right in front of him.
An Rao stood in the center of the temple, looking at the black giant python in front of him. It opened its bloody mouth and looked down at the people coming ferociously. The scarlet snake tongue stuck out of its mouth as if it wanted to roll everyone who approached into its belly. And An Rao felt that the snake's eyes were staring at him.
"Plop...plop..." Liquid dripped onto the ground from the huge sharp fangs.
"That's what I want to say. Someone came and fed this statue with blood." Baichuan said, "and it was human blood."
"Using blood as a sacrifice is extremely evil," An Rao looked at the huge snake head in front of him, "making the remote village a haunted house and causing evil spirits to come out and do evil. This blood-eating statue has contributed greatly to this. We have to find the person who feeds it."
"Looking at the coagulation of the blood, it should have been fed before daybreak."
Suddenly, An Rao's eyes lit up: "When we entered the village, we fought with an NPC for a long time. There were a lot of grasses for stopping bleeding drying in the yard of that NPC!"
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