Chapter 34: The Secret of Linhu Village 5
Su Qingyun was not awakened by the crowing of a rooster, but by the sound of a gong.
Along with the gong sounds came a hoarse man's cry, "Someone's dead! Someone's dead!"
Su Qingyun quickly jumped out of bed, put on her bag, picked up her black cane and went out.
The gate was open, and Wang Aping was holding Xiaozhe and looking out of the yard.
"Grandma, what happened?" Su Qingyun asked Wang Aping.
"The madman was beating drums and gongs and saying someone had died, but I don't know if it was true or not."
Xu Xinghe also came out of the house.
Su Qingyun saw him yesterday at night and didn't see him clearly. When she saw him again during the day, she felt that his appearance was no less than Ye Jian's.
Ye Jian’s handsomeness is evil, while Xu Xinghe’s handsomeness is very regular, and a little too regular.
Su Qingyun withdrew her gaze from Xu Xinghe and walked out of the yard quickly.
The sound of gongs rang out on the lakeshore, as if it was the place where Su Qingyun and the others got off the boat yesterday.
"Grandma, I'll go take a look." Su Qingyun greeted her and walked towards the lakeshore.
Xu Xinghe followed.
Su Qingyun glanced at his trouser legs out of the corner of her eye. His steps were clean and neat, and his posture was very straight.
Some people had gathered on the lakeshore, including Huang Wentao and Zhong Xiaoli.
Seeing Su Qingyun and Xu Xinghe coming over, Huang Wentao hurriedly went to greet them, and then whispered to them, "The boatman is dead."
Su Qingyun did not feel any emotional fluctuations about the death of the NPC in the copy. The copy was just a game of life and death for humans, and the NPCs in it were dead in a sense.
Even humans who are unable to escape from the dungeon due to severe pollution and become NPCs are equivalent to dead people after slowly losing their memories.
"It seems we have to stay here for a while." Xu Xinghe said.
"You mean..." Huang Wentao waved his fist, "This is the dungeon setting!"
He started to get excited again. "Wow, this dungeon has such a setting. It feels like a movie. Once the only boatman dies, we have a reason to stay here and complete the game. Even such details are taken care of. It's simply the king of the gaming world."
The king of gaming?
"Do you think this is just a game?" Su Qingyun asked him.
"No, I don't think so. I see it as a game. Everyone is scared when something strange happens, but if we treat it as a game experience, there's nothing to be afraid of. The worst that can happen is death."
"Besides, it's not that easy to die. The rules are very clear. If you follow them, you will survive."
It seems that Huang Wentao is a very optimistic person.
Su Qingyun looked at Zhong Xiaoli.
Zhong Xiaoli nodded in agreement. As expected, birds of a feather flock together. The couple was very optimistic.
Su Qingyun likes to deal with optimistic people because she is also an optimistic person.
She survived countless lonely nights by relying on her optimistic spirit.
Of course, there is also reluctance.
After Huang Wentao marveled at the game's greatness, his imagination ran wild. He asked, "Does the dungeon want us to find the person who killed the boatman?"
Su Qingyun looked at him and asked, "Didn't you receive the clearance task from the system?"
"No, you got it."
Because it was an intertwined copy, everyone's tasks were different, so Su Qingyun did not hide it.
"A fairy in the forest, a monster in the lake!" Huang Wentao exclaimed after hearing this. "I feel like your clearance mission is so mysterious."
While the two were talking, Xu Xinghe pushed through the crowd and walked to the deceased.
He squatted down and lifted the cloth covering the dead body.
Su Qingyun hurriedly squeezed in to take a look.
The deceased was indeed the ferryman who ferried us last night.
At this time, the boatman was lying on his back in the grass on the lakeshore. He had changed his clothes and they were not the same ones Su Qingyun saw last night.
His eyes were wide and his mouth was slightly open.
"It looks like he was scared to death." Xu Xinghe continued to check the condition of the deceased.
Su Qingyun discovered that he was actually wearing a pair of rubber gloves.
He examined the deceased while describing his condition. "The deceased's eyes were wide open, filled with despair and terror. He must have seen something horrifying just before his death. The corners of his mouth were slightly twisted, as if he wanted to scream, but no sound came out. His hands were covering his chest, his fingers clenched, his knuckles white from the strain. He must have died of cardiac arrest from shock."
Su Qingyun, "..." Is he performing an autopsy?
After Xu Xinghe finished his statement, he pressed the boatman's skin with his rubber-gloved hand, looked into his eyeballs, and finally concluded, "The deceased died between 12:00 last night and 2:00 in the morning, with a margin of error of half an hour."
Huang Wentao also squeezed into the crowd. After hearing Xu Xinghe's conclusion, he looked at him as if he were a god. "Brother Xu, do you still understand this?"
"I don't really understand it. I like to read some forensic books in my spare time. I learned all this from books."
Su Qingyun somewhat believed the message sent by Ye Jian. She felt that Xu Xinghe was an unfathomable person and his behavior was strange.
A person who was selected by the system and had no time to pack his luggage, but he carried rubber gloves with him.
Do executives of Fanxing Group need to wear rubber gloves when they go to work?
Su Qingyun took two steps back and decided to go back to Wang Aping's house first.
After taking two steps, I heard Xu Xinghe asking the villagers, "Who among you is Xie Daqiang's relative?"
Xie Daqiang?
Who is Xie Daqiang?
Did Xu Xinghe come to Linhu Village to find Xie Daqiang?
Su Qingyun stopped in her tracks due to doubt.
The villagers in the crowd said that they were neither.
"Xie Daqiang has only one younger brother, Xie Dazhuang. Oh, he's the crazy guy who beats drums and gongs and says someone died by the lake." The villager said, pointing to a place not far away.
Su Qingyun looked in the direction the villagers pointed, and saw a disheveled man in his thirties beating a gong and grinning foolishly at the lake, muttering "Someone's dead, someone's dead."
Is the madman that Wang Aping mentioned the boatman's younger brother?
Could it be...
Su Qingyun thought about what Wang Aping had said to her last night. The person who disappeared in the woods and came back was crazy, wandering around the lake every day...
Xu Xinghe's mission to pass the level is to unravel the secret of the forest fairy. He actually knows Xie Daqiang. It seems that he had looked for other people before coming to her last night.
Yu Qiaoqiao, special program.
Su Qingyun smiled and continued walking towards Wang Aping's house.
At this time, her cell phone rang again, and the song playing was Danny Chan's "What Do I Want in Life".
Su Qingyun quickly ran to a deserted place and answered the phone.
Needless to say, it was Ye Jian again.
No one else called her.
"What's the matter?" Su Qingyun's voice lacked enthusiasm.
"Oh, I want to tell you that you can't talk to me for more than three minutes, otherwise it will be monitored by the rules."
"What do you mean I should follow you..."
"Have you formed a team with Xu Xinghe?" Ye Jian suddenly asked.
"Why do I want to team up with Xu Xinghe?" "Because he is very powerful, otherwise why would I send you a message."
"Didn't you send me a message telling me to be careful of him?"
"How is that possible... Oh, maybe the time is up, the following information didn't appear. I told you to be careful of his ring. His ring is more powerful than my skill card..."
The call was disconnected and three minutes were up.
Su Qingyun looked at the black screen of her phone. She felt that Ye Jian was a stumbling block on her way to passing the level.
It's still a stumbling block that can't be shaken off.
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