Chapter 61 Happy Event in the Mountain Village 21 She killed everyone in the Happy Village, and you...
Unless Article 8 of the Haunted House Rules is not a death rule, there is no way to explain why you are still alive and well, and the amusement park will not show leniency to any player.
So what is the significance of this one?
An Rao wiped the corner of his mouth, looking at the gray eyes of Ajun who died tragically in front of him, and recalled the appearance of Ajun in the past few days. He was a very shy tall young man, a good cook, diligent and honest. Although he didn't like to talk, he was very helpful. An Rao remembered that once when he was eating, he "accidentally" knocked over the soup bowl. Before he could find the rag, Ajun had already cleaned up the mess with his hands and feet.
He could have had a wonderful life of his own. He could have found a job with his cooking skills, and then established himself in a place he liked with his craft, and then married and had children, living a life that might be ordinary but certainly fulfilling and happy. However, all possibilities came to an abrupt end in this cannibalistic house, and the picture of life was hastily ended before it could even unfold.
An Rao felt a sudden chill in his heart for no reason. No matter how wronged and resentful Zheng Baodi was, from the moment she killed innocent people, she was no longer a pitiful girl who evoked pity, but a complete evil ghost.
It is very logical that the boss of the haunted house is an evil ghost, but how do we explain the second rule of the haunted house that states that "the ghosts in the haunted house are played by the staff or are sound and light effects, and beating the haunted house staff is prohibited"?
These NPCs are already dead in the real haunted house!
Suddenly a flash of lightning flashed through my mind.
An Rao recalled that when he read the rules before entering the venue, he was puzzled as to why there were contradictory rules in the haunted house: Article 10 "There are ten rules in total, and there is absolutely no Article 11" and Article 11 "Rule 2 does not exist!", and Article 11 is closely related to Article 2 "Ghosts in the haunted house are played by staff or sound and light effects, and beating of haunted house staff is prohibited."
The truth he saw after being injured and bleeding overturned the usual appearance of the entire Zheng Mansion and even the entire Xingfu Village. There are no NPCs in the haunted house. The NPCs in the Zheng Mansion are all dead people in the haunted house, so Aunt Li, Ajun and other NPC staff in the Zheng Mansion are ghosts in human appearance, so the ticket inspector at the door of the haunted house has human makeup!
The ghosts in the haunted house are not played by the staff, and there are no staff in the haunted house at all, so if the second rule of the haunted house is false, then the eleventh rule is true. If the eleventh rule is true, then the tenth rule is false, and it is impossible for an amusement park to issue a truly contradictory set of rules, so could the five blacked-out words in the eighth rule mean "the tenth rule is invalid"?
That way, everything makes sense!
If the player is not injured and bleeding, then the second rule is valid. Players who cannot see the truth of the haunted house will see human NPC staff. According to the tenth rule, the eleventh rule that says the second rule does not exist is the real non-existence. Then there are ten rules for playing the haunted house, and the logic is self-consistent. In this case, since the truth of the haunted house cannot be uncovered, the player can only passively die.
If the player is injured and bleeding, then according to the filled-in-blank eighth rule, the tenth rule is invalid. The eleventh rule directly tells the truth about the haunted house. There are no humans in the entire haunted house. The logic is also self-consistent, but due to the fundamental inertia of thinking, which player would dare to get hurt based on the eighth rule?
Although the rules of the haunted house are vicious, they do not lie. Only after the blackened words are filled in again can the true appearance of the entire haunted house confirmed by the rules of the game be revealed.
"Thump, thump, thump..." A sound of footsteps approached, "Boss! Boss, why are you injured?!" In the cold courtyard, Su Ming's frightened face suddenly appeared in front of An Rao, "Ah, the rules say you can't be injured!"
As he spoke, Su Ming hurriedly lifted up the corner of his clothes and clumsily began to wipe the blood off An Rao's forehead, muttering to himself as he wiped, "I can't see it, I can't see it, I can't see it..."
An Rao: ...So it's hard to say whether the child I picked up is really smart or really stupid...
What Su Ming said really came true. The bloodstains were wiped clean, and the cold and terrifying haunted house full of hideous corpses suddenly disappeared and "could not be seen". An Rao returned to Zheng's house in the world of the living. Even though he knew it was fake, An Rao still breathed a sigh of relief.
Baichuan, who was sent out to chop trees, just walked in with an axe and happened to see An Rao, with a pale face, standing blankly in the yard being manipulated by Su Ming.
"What's wrong?" Baichuan frowned.
"I'm injured." An Rao pointed to his forehead, but unfortunately his eyes saw the axe in Baichuan's hand, which was still stained with wood chips.
"Ugh..." An, whose mental state was extremely fragile, vomited again...
"No, is Brother Baichuan disgusting to you, Boss?" Su Ming was confused.
At night, An Rao and Bai Chuan huddled in the room, and An Rao carefully described to Bai Chuan the scene he had seen in the afternoon.
"Did you see Wei Ronger and the others in the real haunted house?" Bai Chuan asked.
"No," An Rao shook his head. "Although the yard was full of corpses, our clothes were very different from those of the villagers. I didn't see them or Aunt Li. Of course, I didn't go to the second floor, but I couldn't rule out the possibility that they were there."
Baichuan thought of Aunt Li's body that flashed by at the end of the bed on the first night, and was somewhat glad that An Rao did not go to see Room 201.
"Maybe. After all, they all died on the second floor," Bai Chuan changed the subject. "But it's not important. You don't have to think about hurting yourself again because of this."
The amount of information today was indeed overloaded. An Rao did not think about the meaning of Bai Chuan's words, but just nodded, and then told Bai Chuan his thoughts on the ghost bride's behavior: "Even if she was sold to a ghost marriage by her parents who favored boys over girls after her death, I don't think she would kill everyone. Old Zheng and Sister Wang's preference for boys over girls is certainly abominable, but she has grown up successfully and started her new life. What I mean is that the grievances she suffered and the malice she released are too disproportionate."
"Don't judge others without knowing their faults," Bai Chuan said, giving a rare lecture. "Do you remember the fourth rule of the haunted house?"
"Rule 4..." An Rao's face changed. "Rule 4 of the Haunted House Rules states that there are no babies or laughter in the Haunted House. So where is the baby who never appeared? Why is there a baby?"
There was laughter and joy all the time in Zheng's house for four days and three nights, but no baby was ever seen. So there was only one possibility: the baby was with his mother, and the mother had been staying in her boudoir and had not come out.
"So, Zheng Baodi has a child, and since this child does not exist in the real haunted house, it means that the child has never been born." An Rao was so frightened by this fact that he took a breath.
"I think so," Bai Chuan showed a rare trace of compassion on his face, "There is no Zheng Zhenzhu who is favored by everyone, only Zheng Baodi who is bullied and abandoned by everyone."
The handsome young man exhaled, and veins bulged on his hands that were clutching the quilt. Zheng Baodi, who had been neglected since childhood and even grew up in oppression, had finally established herself in the city. She should have had a boyfriend. It is conceivable how devoted and dependent a girl who had never received a response would be in love. It's a pity that she died, but even if she was dead, her parents who didn't want her would squeeze out the last bit of value from her and sell her to someone else for a ghost marriage.
Zheng Baodi then became angry and turned into a fierce ghost to avenge all those who had ever harmed her.
"There is one more thing," Bai Chuan leaned against the head of the bed and looked at the dark ceiling. "The evil spirits seek revenge out of resentment. If a person was bullied when he was young, and then grew up to meet his true love and got pregnant and died, although it is indeed hateful to be abandoned by his parents after his death, that is something that happened after his death. I don't think he should feel resentful."
An Rao looked at Bai Chuan who was lost in thought with some surprise. This man was so rational that he was almost unlike a human being. He never got emotional and would always analyze things from an objective perspective. However, it was this rationality and objectivity that always allowed him to find clues that were overlooked by everyone else. An Rao thought for a moment and said, "You're right. Based on my superficial understanding of folk ghost culture, only those who die with great resentment will become evil spirits after death. If they die normally, even if they encounter injustice after death, they will not become evil spirits."
"So how did she die?" An Rao frowned.
"The disappeared boyfriend, the unborn baby, you know the reason but you are unwilling to face it." Baichuan's tone was as cold as ever, and even stained with a hint of inexplicable boredom due to his predicament.
An Rao: “…”
"The man she loved killed her." The cold voice spoke the cruelest truth.
The room fell silent. An Rao felt cold for no reason. The cold air in the mountains at night in late autumn was so chilly that he couldn't help but started coughing. It was a heart-wrenching cough that made his liver and gallbladder tremble. Betrayal and abandonment were never new things.
"She killed everyone in the entire Xingfu Village. Do you think she will let go of the man she once loved deeply but who eventually killed her?" Baichuan asked.
"Did you have this guess a long time ago?" An Rao asked after he finally recovered from his coughing, his face turning pale.
Bai Chuan suddenly got out of bed, causing An Rao to sit up quickly. Thinking that he was going out to look for clues, she didn't expect that Bai Chuan just poured a cup of hot water and handed it to An Rao.
Bai Chuan sat beside An Rao's bed, watching him finish the cup of hot water without any ripples in his light eyes, and then he spoke: "Cheng Lin has been acting very abnormal since he entered Xingfu Village, especially when he heard every player find every difference in this village. He knows this village."
"Do you think he is the unfaithful man?" An Rao looked at Bai Chuan with eyes wide open. Her beautiful eyes were particularly moving because of the rich expressions. Bai Chuan once again felt that strange and familiar feeling, like a collapsed cake, or like a sweet candy in his mouth.
"At least he's an insider." Baichuan retracted his gaze and took the cup from Anrao's hand.
"Let's go ask him directly!" An Rao said as he was about to lift the quilt.
The lights went out silently at this moment. It was ten o'clock.
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