Chapter 61: The Secret of Linhu Village 32 (End)
Su Qingyun had never fought against monsters in a dungeon, but she didn't expect that with the power of the black stick, she only needed two hits to beat the eldest lady of the Zhu family to death.
The screams disappeared, and the furnishings in the room slowly disappeared, until only the guqin remained.
Su Qingyun naturally would not touch the piano. She pushed open the door and walked out.
There is a desolation in front of me.
There was no high wall and courtyard of the Zhu family, only the dilapidated house where Su Qingyun first arrived, with collapsed tables and chairs and miscellaneous items piled up in every corner.
Su Qingyun turned around, and the room behind her disappeared.
It was eerily quiet all around. The dead trees were swaying in the wind, but there was no rustling sound.
At his feet, the tent that Xu Xinghe had put down was still there.
Not far away, the guqin was leaning against the collapsed beam, swaying precariously.
Did she come out of the dungeon?
Where is Xu Xinghe?
Su Qingyun looked around, but there was no sign of Xu Xinghe.
At this moment, the sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds and thunder could be heard faintly.
It's going to rain.
Su Qingyun picked up the tent and backpack that Xu Xinghe had put down. She found a relatively clean place and started to set up the tent.
There is a rule in the first copy of Linhu Village that states that the body cannot be wet by rain. Although Su Qingyun is now far away from the bamboo garden, she has not left Linhu Village.
Su Qingyun felt that it was better to be cautious.
It started raining just as we set up the tent.
The rain continued until evening. Su Qingyun could do nothing in the tent and could only close his eyes and rest.
She was wondering why the Zhu family mansion suddenly disappeared.
Was it her punishment for breaking the rules?
But what kind of punishment is this? Cancel her clearance qualification and make her stay here for the rest of her life?
Su Qingyun turned the ring on her index finger and sat in the tent thinking like Xu Xinghe.
At this moment, the sound of guqin suddenly came from outside the tent.
Su Qingyun subconsciously wanted to close her eyes, but then she thought about it and realized that the rules mentioned guzheng, and the sound coming from outside was guqin, not guzheng.
But, who is playing the guqin at this evening?
Could it be Xu Xinghe?
Su Qingyun opened the tent and peeked outside. Soon, she closed the tent again and sat back in her original position with a gloomy face.
Outside, the person playing the guqin was the white-robed man seen by the lake. He was sitting cross-legged under a tree, his white clothes making him look ethereal.
The more celestial he became, the more anxious Su Qingyun became.
After going through the two copies of Bamboo Garden and Chui Ling Temple, Su Qingyun guessed that the man in white robe should be related to the monster in the center of the lake, and he was very good at charming people's minds. Now Xu Xinghe was not here, and Su Qingyun did not want to meet this strange thing face to face.
But why is he here now? It’s not even ten o’clock in the evening. Is he here to eat her heart?
What should I do? Su Qingyun asked herself. Although she had the Wu Teng Staff, she had no confidence in whether she could resist such a strange existence in such a strange copy.
[We have to find Xu Xinghe.] A voice told her.
She touched the ring on her index finger with her thumb again, hoping to feel the magnetism like when she touched the ring on Xu Xinghe's hand.
As it turned out, it didn’t.
Xu Xinghe should still be in the copy.
At this time, the sound of the piano outside became louder, as if trying to lift up her tent.
Su Qingyun began to feel a slight headache and her consciousness became a little fuzzy.
Wake up! Su Qingyun shook her head to keep herself awake, then she stood up. She felt that she couldn't just wait here for Xu Xinghe, she had to rely on herself now.
She took the black stick and left the tent.
The man was still playing, his fingers flying and his clothes fluttering.
The closer Su Qingyun got to her head, the more painful it felt. She even fainted for a second or two. At this time, she still felt warmth, like the warmth of spring flowers.
On a spring night like this, with a drizzle in the sky, warmth is important to everyone.
At this moment, Su Qingyun even had a strange idea. She wanted to give her heart to this man in white and grow old with him.
[Quickly abandon this idea.] Su Qingyun ordered herself. She walked over quickly and swept the black rattan stick at the strings. "Bang, bang, bang" the strings broke and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.
"Are you the lake monster?" she questioned the man.
The man raised his head, and fish scales appeared around his beautiful eyebrows and eyes.
He looked at Su Qingyun and smiled, then asked her what her name was.
"I won't tell you my name, so forget it." Su Qingyun replied with a smile.
The man stood up and approached her, then reached out to touch Su Qingyun's head again, but Su Qingyun dodged.
The man's brows sank, his eyes filled with disbelief. "You can actually resist my charm?"
"What's so charming about you? Your appearance is all my imagination. You're not really that pretty. Besides, why do you want to know my name? A name is just a symbol."
“No, no, no,” the man waved his hands. “I need your name.”
"Do you need my name or my heart?" Su Qingyun shook her head and sneered, "Why would you need so much heart for a fish?"
"How do you know I'm a fish?" The man took a step back, and the scales on his face began to increase.
"I guessed it, but now I can be sure of it." Su Qingyun looked at the increasing number of fish scales on the man's face.
She said, "Well, you're quite an interesting fish. You want people's hearts but still care about beauty. You charmed Zhu Xian'er but ignored Zhu Yun'er. In the end, Zhu Yun'er jumped into the lake and died, then turned into a pigeon. It searches for you all day long. Are you happy?"
"Happy?" The man's face slowly changed, and finally turned into the appearance of a fish.
Only then did Su Qingyun realize that its gills could transform into the faces of many people, but without exception, they were all handsome men.
It doesn't have a woman's face, so when this fish monster sees a man, it will just dig out his heart, such as the boatman Xie Daqiang.
Su Qingyun sighed, and this sigh was for Zhu Xian'er. This ignorant girl thought that her lover would risk his life to save her, and she was willingly chained under the bell tower. Little did she know that Chui Ling Temple only regarded her as bait, and this fish had already started looking for the next target and had forgotten her completely.
The man who turned into a fish head began to get angry. He questioned Su Qingyun why she said he was happy. He said, "Who would be happy being entangled by an ugly woman? That Zhu Yun'er is not only ugly but also has bound feet. I want people's hearts to leave the Skeleton Spirit Swamp. Bound feet are useless to me."
"So you wanted to leave the Skeleton Spirit Swamp, but you can just go to the village and take a boat. Why bother with all that trouble?"
"I'm a fish monster and can't cross the woods," the strange fish shook its head. "A few nights ago, I ran into the boatman Xie Daqiang. I asked him to take me to the village, but he actually wanted to cook me in soup, saying that eating me would make me immortal. I took his heart to teach him a lesson."
"But have you ever thought that if you dig out Xie Daqiang's heart, no one on Lake Heart Island can leave."
"It was only the boatman who died. The boat is still there."
A sentence wakes up the dreamer.
Su Qingyun, "It turns out that the secret of Linhu Village can be solved in this way."
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