Chapter 12: Village in the Rain (12)
"Can we take these three books away?" Su Yue put the ring back on his hand and asked the priest leisurely.
The priest had just opened the door on the left and, still furious, roared back, "...Dead end!!"
oh.
It seems not possible.
Within that half hour, you have to complete two things: read three books and enter the room on the left.
Su Yue thought about it and threw the three books to Cang Zhi, university teacher Briefcase and college student Zhao Shuo respectively, because these three obviously seemed to have better brains.
"Divide the work among yourselves and take a look at it as soon as possible." Su Yue instructed.
Then he walked into the room on the left.
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As soon as he entered the room, Su Yue felt a strong chill, which made him wrinkle his nose uncomfortably.
The room was extremely cold, just like the hallway outside, small but high, with a faint light shining down from above, and the air was very humid. It felt like you could inhale water mist with every breath, as if you were standing at the bottom of a deep well.
There is a transparent crystal coffin placed upright in each of the nine directions against the wall, with strange characters carved on the coffin.
Buried in the coffin was a paper doll.
There were paper dolls that were very tall and huge, like giant figurines. They were in the crystal coffin, standing against the wall with expressionless faces.
There are only eight paper dolls in the nine coffins. The missing one should be the small doll that died this morning.
What the briefcase man said before was very correct. The paper dolls given to them by the villagers were not the key to the "Nightmare Technique" at all. The real "doll" should be somewhere else.
It's obvious that this is where these paper dolls have a very strong, very evil aura.
Su Yue could vaguely see that each paper doll was holding something in its hand. From the perspective of the game, he must get the things in the hands of these paper dolls, which must be the key to the main storyline.
But Su Yue couldn't pay too much attention to those paper dolls now.
Because there is a thin line extending from the outside of each crystal coffin, and the ends of the thin lines gather in the middle of the stone chamber.
The end of all the threads is the source of all the terrifying aura in this stone chamber.
A little girl in white clothes sat there. She looked to be about four or five years old, with wet hair covering most of her face.
She exuded a strong smell of dampness and resentment. Between her bangs, a pair of dark eyes with almost no whites were staring at Su Yue.
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Water was dripping from the little girl's hands, making them soft and wrinkled like wet paper. She was very damp, as if she had been soaked in cold water for a very long time.
Obviously, she's also a paper doll, but probably a more advanced one, as she has human-like facial features. Of course, in reality, she looks more like a ghost from a horror movie.
The paper girl's drooping hair covered the upper half of her face, revealing only her chin, which was so white that it was almost transparent.
Her dark eyes stared at Su Yue through her bangs, like a vengeful spirit that had been sitting here since long, long ago.
"Big brother." The paper girl's voice was spooky, and her eyes were full of malice when she looked at Su Yue. "Are you here to play with me? I love dolls the most."
Obviously, in order to open the crystal coffin, one must get past the paper girl.
It is also obvious that here, if you are not careful, you will be made into a paper doll by this paper girl.
The paper girl exuded a strong sense of resentment, and Su Yue felt uncomfortable being near her. It was clear that she was in a position similar to the "center of the formation" in this ancestral hall.
Moreover, this stone chamber is her home ground. The cold and heavy resentment means that her fighting ability will be very strong in such a place.
It’s not that Su Yue can’t fight, but generally speaking he believes in avoiding violence if possible, and he is a god who values elegance.
Besides, if you do it, it will probably cause the sensitive earring to start beeping.
Sounding the alarm will attract Supervisor Z.
He had just bullied Supervisor Z, and now he felt a little guilty when he saw people again.
So Su Yue had an idea, "I can play with you, let's have a competition."
"?" The paper girl was stunned.
After all, she was only four years old. She blinked her dark eyes with almost no whites, and there was a hint of innocence in the horror.
"Let's play a game." Su Yue smiled slightly. He had a face that no one, god, or ghost could dislike when he smiled. "Let's see who can open the lids of these crystal coffins first. If you win, I'll give you a doll. How about that?"
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Outside the stone chamber.
At Su Yue's instruction, the others took the time to read.
The high priest sat at the table, cutting paper viciously, and the scissors made a snapping sound like cutting meat.
The sound was so thrilling that it was hard not to notice. Zhao Shuo, Briefcase, the little girl and the others who were not so brave could not help but glance at the High Priest while reading, fearing that she would get angry and pick up a pair of scissors to cut them all into pieces.
Cang Zhi stood outside calmly, standing between the High Priest and everyone else.
This person is very quiet. When he is with Su Yue, he is like a sweet pendant, but when he stands here alone, he still gives people a sense of security.
...Or it could be said that Cang Zhi seems to have attracted the hatred of the High Priest.
After the High Priest noticed this, he kept staring at him and ignored everyone else.
"What on earth did they do last night?" Zhao Shuo couldn't help but whisper to Zhou Hu, "They made so many paper dolls, and made those NPCs stare at them like they were ghosts."
"If I knew, I would be the boss." Zhou Hu said, "Hurry up and read the book."
Zhao Shuo said "Oh", shrank his neck, and continued reading his book.
The three books that the priest took out were: one was the local gazetteer of Qiyun Village, one was a strange book recording witchcraft, and the one Zhao Shuo was reading was more magical. It was a clipping book. When he opened it, he saw some local news collected on it.
"What is this? Travel news?" Zhao Shuo flipped through the clipping book quickly. It was full of travel soft articles such as "Beautiful Village Shows the Wonders of Sea of Clouds" and "Don't know where to go this autumn? Come and see the most beautiful sunset sea of clouds in the country!"
Zhao Shuo didn't understand what this was for at first, but then he noticed the time.
The time here is different from reality. According to the time in the game, these news should be five years ago. Scrolling back, there are still some reports about the sea of clouds, but the most were five years ago. The further back, the fewer there are. By the time you scroll back to three years ago, you can already see travel reviews like this:
"The sea of clouds in Qiyun Village is just so-so, not as impressive as it's hyped up to be. I didn't see any pearl clouds or goose feather clouds at all. It was just an ordinary sunset glow, and it was so far away, it wasn't worth it."
"Scam."
"It's just watching the sunset, it's boring."
Zhao Shuo suddenly recalled the first night he arrived in the village, what Yima said, "There used to be a lot of guests every autumn," and the deserted photo-taking scenes on the first floor of the inn.
He was just beginning to realize something when he suddenly heard a loud bang coming from the stone chamber on his left.
The sound was so deafening in the sealed stone chamber, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground and shattered, instantly grabbing everyone's attention.
As soon as the voice sounded, Cang Zhi was one step ahead of everyone else. He stuffed the book into the briefcase next to him and rushed into the stone chamber.
Zhou Hu immediately rushed in as well.
Zhao Shuo decisively stuffed the book into his briefcase and rushed in.
briefcase:"……"
He rushed in with the two girls, holding three books and looking very unhappy.
The narrow stone chamber was instantly filled with people. Zhou Hu looked around at the scene in amazement and blurted out: "...Fuck."
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In the stone chamber, Su Yue stood in the middle, in front of him was a little girl with her head down and her body wet.
In theory, she looked scary, but for some reason, she seemed kind of harmless next to Su Yue.
Surrounding them stood eight huge paper dolls, each about three meters tall, standing in something that looked like a crystal coffin.
The ground was covered with broken crystal fragments.
The little girl held many strings in her hands, each tied to a coffin. The strings were still shining, and it was obvious that the crystal fragments on the ground were all her work.
Each doll had its hands on its chest, holding a small object. Su Yue was climbing up lightly on the protrusions of the crystal coffin on the side and taking the object from the doll's hand.
When the high priest who came in behind saw this situation, he was so angry that his hair stood up.
She was wearing a mask and her hair stood up, which was a very interesting visual effect.
"What are you doing?!" the high priest roared, not knowing whether he was targeting the little girl or Su Yue.
"I won." The little girl looked straight at Su Yue, ignoring the priest, and said happily, "Big brother, you lost, you have to make a doll for me."
The tone of this sentence is actually quite scary. The original meaning is probably that if you lose, you will become a paper doll of a little girl.
However, Su Yue already had a lot of paper dolls.
The paper doll snatched from the High Priest.
It has not been returned to the High Priest yet.
Su Yue generously stuffed the paper dolls into the little girl's hands and said, "Here, so many dolls, all for you."
The little girl was actually fooled by him. She took the doll and said happily, "Thank you, brother."
This is the extreme use of the phrase "borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha".
Lord Priest: “…………”
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The little girl was visibly happy when she got the dolls, and even her scary face had a hint of cuteness.
The high priestess obviously didn't expect things to develop like this. She roared, "Everyone must die!!!" and blew out the candle furiously.
She forced the tour to end early and kicked everyone out.
It is really rare to see a scene where an NPC actively breaks the rules of the game.
When the group was driven out of the ancestral hall, Yimadu was still admiring the scenery from a distance, as the tour time had not yet ended. They immediately surrounded Suyue and dealt with the things they had just taken from the paper doll.
What Su Yue had just taken from the eight dolls was a puzzle. When he put the pieces together, he found that it was the same complex pattern as the paper-cut on the wall in the room, but there was a piece missing.
Because there are only eight dolls in the nine crystal coffins, the puzzle piece for the smaller one is not here.
However, this doesn't seem to be that important.
Because just when Su Yue put the eight pieces of the puzzle together, there was a fluttering sound of wings in the sky, and a black bird flew over.
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This bird doesn't fit in with the painting style of the entire village. It's obvious at a glance that it doesn't belong here. And the moment it appears, time seems to have stopped.
The clouds in the sky stopped flowing, and Yima, who was walking over, stopped moving. It seemed that only a few players were left alive in the world.
The black bird flew closer and hovered in the air.
Everyone, except Su Yue and Cang Zhi, stared at the black bird in amazement. The black bird's beak opened and closed, and what came out was actually human language.
"Trigger the hidden quest: Collect all the ghost pattern puzzle pieces and crack the Qiyun Village formation. After completing the hidden quest, the game will be cleared immediately, regardless of the remaining days."
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After saying this, the black bird flapped its wings and flew away again. When it disappeared among the clouds, the whole world finally began to flow again, and Yima walked towards everyone with a smile on her face.
The other tourists seemed to be petrified and it took them a while to recover.
"There are hidden missions?" Zhou Hu was stunned. "This game has hidden missions? I've played it so many times and never knew there was such a thing! I always thought I could only last until the last day, damn..."
Zhou Hu kept chattering, and it looked like he wanted to laugh because of the surprise, but also wanted to cry because of all the suffering he had endured before.
He was so emotional that his voice was shaking.
Su Yue was quite used to it. He would basically trigger the hidden mission every time and complete it quickly.
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Seeing Zhou Hu so excited, Su Yue didn't rush to act, deciding to give his younger brother some time to calm down. Although Zhao Shuo and the others were newcomers, they also sensed Su Yue's strength from this development. They gathered together to comfort the excited Zhou Hu, while looking at Su Yue with admiration.
As the saying goes, flattery never wears out, no matter how many holes it has. Although he is a noble and reserved god, Su Yue is still in a good mood when being looked at with such admiration by the players.
At this time, Cangzhi poked Suyue, and the puppet's handsome face was full of curiosity.
The Cangzhi doll has a strong learning ability, and Suyue happens to be in a good mood now.
So Su Yue raised her eyebrows, looked at him, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?"
"Did what you did just now count as deceiving the feelings of an ignorant girl?" Cang Zhi asked, pointing to the ancestral hall not far away.
Su Yue: "..."
What a joke.
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