Qian Chang: "So the blind men who were chasing us in this house, including that blind woman from before, were all killed by Ming Pei?"
Aunt Qu: "He dug her out after she died, gouged out her eyes, and pulled out her tongue."
Fu Guan asked, "Why did he do that?"
Aunt Qu did not answer. Her back hunched over, her mouth twitched, and a few white whiskers sprouted from her cheeks, making her look more and more like a hedgehog.
Seeing this, Shi Jinzhe specially set up an array for her, and pure life force shone on Aunt Qu. In a short while, the animal characteristics on her body disappeared.
Aunt Qu touched her cheek. "I thought you were a silly child. What a waste of my candles."
Sheikh: "That candle is special. Where did you get it?"
Aunt Qu snorted, still feeling sorry for her candle, "Foxes are so clever. You kept clinging to him, and I thought you just wanted to eat him. I never expected it was for this reason. No wonder none of the people you tricked back this time died and were able to maintain their human form for so long."
Her reply was nonsensical, but it revealed an important message to everyone.
Monsters can maintain their human form for longer by killing people and absorbing their life essence. Conversely, the fact that Aunt Qu always appears for a very short time suggests that she has never harmed anyone.
In this dungeon filled with all sorts of monsters and demons, an NPC who has never harmed anyone can basically be classified as a good person.
The reason why the teacher and Aunt Qu don't get along has also been found. The teacher is also a spirit, but she maintains her human form by harming people. She keeps sending them to such strange places with the purpose of killing them.
After much deliberation, Shi Jinzhe concluded that the teacher brought them to the Yu family's old house because he didn't want to personally get involved in the bloodshed. However, since everyone in this round was a player, his plan backfired, and not a single person died.
Shekh then asked, "You haven't mentioned the candles yet."
Aunt Qu looked at her with a puzzled expression. She had just said that foxes were clever, so why were they not doing it now?
"The candles are the ones on Mingpei's offering table; they can expose demons and monsters."
Shekh: "So you came to save people."
Aunt Qu neither admitted nor denied it. At this moment, Lin Shu touched her wet hair and recounted what had just happened.
"The mung bean soup you gave us, was it water from that lake? It was very cold and tasted just like the mung bean soup you gave us. After drinking your soup, we saw spirits, and when I fell into the water, I saw Yu Qiongzhi and Mingpei."
Aunt Qu seemed moved. Lin Shu continued, "And there's Yu Qiongzhi. She recognized that I wasn't from there. If she hadn't asked me to go back with her, even without ghosts, I would have drowned in the lake. She's very kind; she didn't want to hurt anyone."
Lin Shu emphasized, "It was Yu Qiongzhi who saved me."
"She's just too kind."
Aunt Qu was scratching the back of her hand, and there was an inexplicable sense of grievance in her voice.
"We shouldn't have saved that wicked fox."
The wicked fox, Shekh, was unreadable, and Shi Jinzhe guessed she wouldn't be affected. Shekh had a strong affinity for snakes; even if you told her a thousand times that she was a fox, she wouldn't take it personally.
Aunt Qu said, "The wicked fox stole Mingpei's offerings, and Yu Qiongzhi never blamed him."
Sheikh: "What are the consequences of stealing food?"
“If you eat it, his will be less. Mingpei has killed too many people. A defeated general is inherently full of murderous aura. Without those beliefs to guide him, over time, he will lose his mind and even dissipate.”
Where is Mingpei now?
“I don’t know,” Aunt Qu gestured to herself and the white-faced ape beside her, “one day we suddenly saw Yu Qiongzhi again. She told us to hide in Banshan Baosi Temple. Once inside, we lost consciousness. When we woke up, it was like this. We can’t find Yu Qiongzhi, and we can’t find Mingpei…”
Aunt Qu shook the sleeves of her coat. "I didn't understand the situation, so I left Monkey to guard the Half-Mountain Temple and came to the ancient town to see what was going on. That little Western-style building belongs to the descendants of the Yu family. Anyway, they made their fortune thanks to Yu Qiongzhi and her son Yu Shuang. I can stay there."
Aunt Qu spoke with such conviction that it was clear she believed she and Yu Qiongzhi were together.
Lin Shu: "Then why did you come here...?"
“…I heard the monkey calling and was afraid that you had all been killed by the bad fox, so I came, but I couldn’t beat her.” Aunt Qu muttered, “If I had known she was still this bad, I wouldn’t have let her into the house.”
Jiang Xiaowan stroked the hedgehog's fur: "Then you are very kind too."
"It's alright," Aunt Qu said, straightening her back.
"What else do you know?"
Shekh folded his hand as he took the picture, "to entice her."
The golden light from the array beneath Aunt Qu's feet intensified, and Fu Guan frowned: "Isn't he deaf?"
Jiang Xiaowan: "There's a term called 'telepathic understanding,' but you single dog, what do you know?"
"Ha, you know, you know best."
"It's alright, I know a little bit, I know a little bit."
Lin Shu: "Alright, you two, stop now."
Fu Guan then jumped back to the main point: "How much do you know about this house?"
“There were still people using it before we entered Banshanbao Temple, but after the Yu family declined, many courtyards were locked up, and only the main courtyard and a few courtyards are still inhabited.”
Jiang Xiaowan: "The blind man is a member of the Yu family whose eyes were gouged out and tongues were pulled out by Ming Pei. What about the skeletal corpse?"
"I don't know. I woke up and came out of the temple and there were those things there. There are many more on these mountains, buried underneath."
Aunt Qu was comfortable in the formation and was willing to say a few more words. "I don't know what you want to do here, but if you want to know more about Banshan Town, you can go and see the mountains behind it. There are people living there too."
Qian Chang: "Are you... even a real person?"
Aunt Qu rolled her eyes at him: "They are beekeepers from the mountains. Their family has lived there for generations. We used to steal some of their honey."
Fu Guan asked, "In which mountain?"
"Go through the back gate of the Yu family mansion, there's a small path leading up the mountain, just look for it."
Just look for it...
Qian Chang was speechless. How was he supposed to find these mountains, which were so big?
"Can't you take us there?"
Aunt Qu: "I forgot how to get there, I just found it randomly."
Qian Chang: "And what about this monkey?"
"It needs to go back to guard Banshanbao Temple, so please let it go."
"Should we release it?" Fu Guan looked around, asking for everyone's opinion.
Shekh: "Let it go."
It hasn't even transformed into human form, so there's no point in keeping it here.
"Alright then." Fu Guan was collecting the cards and letting the monkey go when he inadvertently remembered something else, "Why are there those monsters on the dishes you made?"
"It's been a while since we've seen any new faces. Come and take a look. These dishes aren't their original forms; they're just ordinary dishes."
Qian Chang rubbed his forehead and admitted defeat.
“But if you actually eat it, they might get angry, so they made you drink mung bean soup.”
"..."
What a big turn of events! There's a real generation gap when talking to these little animals.
Aunt Qu said, "I've told you everything I know, please let me go back to sleep."
After Fu Guan released her and agreed to let Aunt Qu leave, the eight of them discussed it and decided to go into the back mountain as soon as the sun rose.
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