Chapter 53 Night Fishing
The black snake scales made Xu Zhiyan lose his enthusiasm for walking around the village.
The few dilapidated houses at the end of the village were suddenly downgraded from a holy place for exploration to a restricted area for action.
He walked towards Old Yang's house in a daze, his mind full of the scales that had just reflected the cold light, and his back felt a little cold.
But the other party did not chase out.
He must be still considering the three-day time limit.
It was the warmest time of the afternoon, and he was only feeling more and more anxious.
He returned to Old Yang's house angrily. Jin Sheng and Jiang Huaique were not back yet. Only Old Yang was left sitting in the yard, packing up some strange tools with his rough big hands.
Xu Zhiyan wanted to ask about the situation, but then he remembered the instructions saying 'don't ask the villagers directly', so he gave up.
Since he was free anyway, he simply picked up a stool and sat aside, watching Lao Yang work.
This is an instrument that is somewhat similar to a long-handled scimitar, but the scimitar and the handle are bent at 90 degrees. It seems to be used to cut certain ground plants while standing without bending over. There is also a net bag at the bottom.
Seeing his curiosity, Lao Yang packed up his utensils and said, "I'll go to the frog cave to get food this afternoon."
"Frog Hole? Can I go there?" Xu Zhiyan asked curiously.
I guess the food that Lao Yang was talking about was the stem-like food we ate today.
Some of them look like potatoes, but the texture is okay. It feels like the starch content is higher, but it lacks seasoning. If these foods were cooked well in the real world, they would definitely taste different.
However, this frog hole sounds a bit strange. I don’t know if it refers to the place name or the many frogs inside.
"No." Lao Yang refused without thinking.
Afraid that Xu Zhiyan would not accept it, he pointed at his arm and explained, "You don't have the strength, so you can't help even if you go."
After saying that, Lao Yang picked up his strange farm tools and prepared to leave quickly.
Xu Zhiyan was choked and the corners of his mouth twitched.
It's true that he can't do any farm work, but this is a personal attack!
Before leaving the house, Lao Yang had one foot out the door, but then he thought about going back and emphasizing some rules.
"You can't enter the backyard; the well water is only drinkable during the day. Once there is no sun, you should seal the well with the wooden boards beside it; it is best not to go out at night, and even if you go out, you cannot leave the village." He pointed to the wooden boards beside the well with a serious tone.
"Don't forget to cover the manhole."
After saying that, seeing Xu Zhiyan nod obediently, Lao Yang left the house, looking back every few steps.
Seeing the door closed, Xu Zhiyan stretched his head to take another look at the well water, but found nothing unusual, so he simply returned to his room.
In the blink of an eye, the huge house was empty, leaving only him.
Xu Zhiyan couldn't sleep either. He lay on his simple broken bed, staring at the cracked earthen wall. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the frog hole was strange, the well was strange, and the villagers were strange too.
He listed the current known information and started to plan the next step.
First of all, no matter how naturally Lao Yang speaks or how strong his body is, he is no longer a living person.
If Old Yang is like the injured old man at the entrance of the village, with bugs flying out when his body is cut, then these bugs should be the key to allowing the corpse to maintain its ability to move... But is Old Yang really "Old Yang" or are the bugs controlling his brain and acting as Old Yang?
But if all the villagers will not die, then what Lao Yang said earlier, 'someone will be bitten to death by snakes every year', needs to be questioned.
Will the bugs that players can't easily kill be killed by snakes?
Thinking of this, Xu Zhiyan turned over and took out his bag, then took out the big white snake wrapped in a plastic bag from it, his eyes burning.
The big white snake that had been sleeping soundly in the bag hadn't reacted yet, but Xu Zhiyan took it in his hand like a detector and pointed it at various places in the room.
"Snake, can you smell something wrong here?"
The big white snake stuck out its tongue and shook its head.
Xu Zhiyan brought the snake back to the yard, held the snake's tail and put it into the well, and asked, "Is there anything unusual inside?"
The big white snake, which was almost pushed into the water, retreated frantically, wrapped around Xu Zhiyan's arm, and continued to shake its head.
Xu Zhiyan touched the snake's head and sighed, "You feel useless because you didn't find anything unusual, right? It's okay, I don't mind. But I think I'm the only one in the world who doesn't despise you. I'll get you some potatoes later."
The big white snake, who was being PUA, glared at him with its small green eyes and tightly wrapped around Xu Zhiyan's wrist.
Didn’t we talk about eating fish last time?
Why has it turned into potatoes now?
In the live broadcast room, everyone couldn't help but feel sorry for the big white snake.
【Large CPU scene】
[Snake: You ICU me]
[Hahahahahaha, you two understand PUA]
[Click to see a beautiful woman with teardrop mole suppressing wild beasts. Is it a loss of morality or the annihilation of life? ]
【Hahahahahahahahahaha】
[Snake was not PUAed at all, haha, it was still very angry! 】
【Snake: Fish! Fish fish fish fish!】
[So will Xiao Baiwan take it away in the end? Can the wild animals in the copy be taken away? ]
After a while, Jiang Huaique and Jin Sheng came back.
Jiang Huaique was still leaning on crutches, while Jin Sheng had a complicated expression, indicating that there really was something in the village that could heal wounds.
Xu Zhiyan was amused by what he saw. Shouldn’t one be happy about something that can heal the disease?
"What method? Is it effective? Why not cure it at the villagers' home?" he asked Jiang Huaique.
Jiang Huaique smiled bitterly and took out a small bottle from his body.
"It can be used, but I guess it can only be used once in a lifetime."
As he said this, he threw away his crutches, sat on the only relatively spacious bed in the room, and untied the bandages on his legs.
A big hole was nailed into the right knee from the knee pit. Although there was medicine, the wound was too deep and went through the bone. It was still a bloody mess now.
Xu Zhiyan's expression changed slightly, but he didn't say much.
Seeing Jiang Huaique was about to take out the contents of the bottle, he quickly waved his hand: "Didn't you say it can only be used once?"
"fine."
Jiang Huai Quehun didn't care. He opened the small bottle and took out a white insect from it.
The insect looked much smaller than the previous white treasure insect, and was thin and long, as if it was not the same species at all.
Xu Zhiyan watched the other party pinch the bug with his hands, and then took out a knife from his system backpack.
Just when he thought the next step was to chop the insects and eat them, Jiang Huaique's next move made him stunned.
Jiang Huaiqie picked up the insect and put it into the wound on his knee.
When the insect saw the blood, it began to sway continuously, seeming to be very comfortable. It lay on the wound and ate a few mouthfuls of flesh and blood before crawling in.
Immediately afterwards, Jiang Huaiqu stood up.
He performed a few jumping and running poses and introduced the usefulness of the insect: "As long as you put this insect into the wound, it can replace the necrotic tissue and organs and obey your instructions again."
After the demonstration, Jiang Huaique sat up with his legs propped up, raised his knife and cut a hole in his thigh. He reached in and dug out the worm that had already moved to a point above his knee, threw it into a small bottle, and quickly sealed the bottle cap.
Warm blood splattered on the walls of the room.
The smell of blood is a bit too strong.
Seeing Xu Zhiyan standing aside, which was rare, he thought that he was worried about him, and couldn't help but explain: "Don't worry, we didn't plan to keep this leg at the beginning, so we took special measures, and he won't die."
Xu Zhiyan, whose face was splashed with blood, wiped his face with his sleeve and his expression eased a little.
He was about to say that it was fine as long as it didn't hurt, but Jin Sheng shook his head and said worriedly, "But maintaining this special state will double the pain. Are you really okay?"
"...Double the pain?"
Xu Zhiyan looked at Jiang Huaique, whose expression didn't change much except for being slightly pale. He felt that the other party was the real ruthless person.
He's not the only one who feels this way.
The barrage of comments also gave Jiang Huaique a round of 666. After all, there are very few people these days who can stab themselves without any pain relief.
However, Jiang Huai Que didn't mind.
He even felt much better after finding a way to restore his fighting power.
Medical supplies in the escape game were in very short supply, and even fewer could cure serious injuries. Now that he could temporarily recover his combat effectiveness without spending a penny, he felt that the pain was nothing.
The three of them originally divided the work in the afternoon. Jiang Huaique explored the village, while Xu Zhiyan and Jin Sheng went to explore the outskirts of the village.
But just as I arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw someone guarding there, stopping the black hooded duo I had seen before. I could hear the words of the old man at the entrance of the village from a long distance away.
"If you leave, you can't come back in."
The sky was overcast, and the sun was shining at noon, but suddenly it became much darker.
The old man at the door took off his hat and looked at the sky, then continued to say to the two players in front of him: "It gets dark early today. If you really want to go out, wait until the sun comes out."
"Because once there's no sunlight, we won't be able to tell whether the people coming in are still 'you'."
Watching the two players run away in shame, Xu Zhiyan and Jin Sheng looked at each other and decided to go back and close the manhole cover first.
The two men returned to the yard and checked the well.
Lao Yang placed some buckets near the well and filled them with water. According to him, if there weren't so many people coming to his house, he might not have opened the well during the day.
Jin Sheng lifted the heavy wooden board and threw it on the mouth of the well with a "click". It fitted perfectly and covered the well completely, so that not a single light could get in.
"Should we open it and take a look at night?" He always felt that the information given by the villagers was strange, and there was a bit of curiosity in it.
Xu Zhiyan shook his head: "What the NPC said could be true, or it could be that he wants you to open it. There will definitely be players opening it tonight, so we'll see what happens then."
He won't take risks when he can get information from others.
In the evening, Lao Yang came back.
His face was full of joy as he took out some tubers from the basket on his back, which were exactly the kind for lunch.
Piece after piece, piled up, it filled up half a basket. Old Yang was grinning from ear to ear.
The three of them looked at each other and asked if they could kill the fish.
Old Yang shook his head: "No, no, no."
"The fish must be offered to the Snake God so that he can bless us with a good harvest. I offered sacrifices to the Snake God today, but I didn't expect to have so much food in the evening." After saying that, he happily took the things and went to cook.
It was only then that everyone realized that Lao Yang sometimes went to the frog hole to harvest food and would come back empty-handed. Now the profit from this half basket was an amount he had never imagined.
This also solidified his reason for wanting to offer all the fish as an offering.
"Don't worry, I will convert your fish into other food for you." Lao Yang said, patting his chest.
The three of them looked at each other. They didn't expect that the old man was so unethical and would just take the fish as he was told.
Dinner is still the same three dishes.
Steamed, grilled, or stewed.
After eating two meals in a row, Xu Zhiyan felt a little sick of it.
He pretended to have no appetite and took a roasted tuber from the table. While Lao Yang was packing up and getting ready to go to bed, he planned to go to the backyard.
The other party was not there in the afternoon, and Xiaoyi had already figured out the details of the backyard with his superb flying skills.
In fact, it is a room like a small ancestral hall.
There was a broken shrine inside, with a half-snake statue on it, and in front of it was a bucket full of fish.
Thinking of the silly look of the half-snake god, he felt that even if it was an offering, it would be enough to give the other party potatoes, and there was no need to waste fish.
Tiptoe around the front yard and through a small gate.
Xu Zhiyan groped his way to the small ancestral hall in the dark.
It was empty inside, just like what Xiaoyi had found.
He took a fish out of the bucket and placed roasted food tubers on the shrine, but on second thought, he took the things back and didn't even want to give a roasted tuber.
"It's not that I want to take it for free, but if I put it here, the old man will see it."
After mumbling to himself, Xu Zhiyan put the fish back into the bucket, then held the entire bucket in his hand, curling his lips and saying, "Just think of it as eating it for you."
Even in such a seemingly safe scene, the barrage of comments has gone crazy.
[Wow! What the hell is this! ! ]
【Run, Little Millionaire! ! 】
[How does it feel to be caught by the real owner for stealing tribute? 】
[Ahhhhh this tail is almost blocking the camera!!]
It turned out that it was on the beams of the ancestral hall.
The tall half-snake god was swinging its tail excitedly, just waiting for the offered fish to be taken away so that it could find an excuse to punish the other party.
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