Chapter 151
Can we continue to go down? Ping Chu didn't know.
Is it dangerous down there? Extremely dangerous! Ping Chu knew this clearly.
After thinking for a while, Ping Chu immediately decided to go back. He walked back quickly, faster than going down the mountain.
It took him half a day to get down the mountain. It was winter and it got dark very quickly. He had to get back to the village before dark. The playground was more dangerous at night than during the day, and there were no lights in the village. If he turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone and entered the village in the middle of the night, he would probably be beaten to death on the spot.
On the other hand, since the villagers did not dare to come to Xiaoqing, it gave Shen Yunzhe and He Yufeng space to communicate.
Erniu's body was still there. Every time He Yufeng came to see the body, he felt complicated.
When I first arrived, there was also a body displayed outside their door, but that body was that of the young Yaya who was strangled and drowned. This time, she was the culprit.
"The villagers were too scared to come and deal with the body, so they just dumped it here," Shen Yunzhe said. "Well, let's just dump it here. Yaya was also left outside for a long time. After all, it was Yaya who took care of him."
He Yufeng nodded, "Do you think Ping Chu can go out?"
"The probability of getting out is very low," Shen Yunzhe analyzed rationally. "I don't know who found Xiaoqing's path. Perhaps because she plays such a crucial role in the entire plot, they all contacted her and eventually unlocked this path. But honestly, so many people have unlocked this path and obtained the route, yet not a single one has left."
"It only means there's a trap in this line."
He Yufeng looked at his notebook, which contained all the information he had collected. "The Yaya storyline should be a supplement to Xiaoqing's storyline, not a separate storyline."
Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Apart from Yaya's connection, we should pay attention to the village chief. He obviously has a connection as well."
"Yes, the village rules are also a line." He Yufeng thought for a moment, "After Ping Chu's news comes back, we will go to the village chief to inquire."
"If all else fails, there's still the cemetery," Shen Yunzhe said. "The cemetery is where the dead are buried. It's also where Xiaoqing left the village. Yaya's body also disappeared in the cemetery. I always feel that this place might be more important than I thought."
He Yufeng recorded the village, village rules and cemetery in the notebook.
"Speaking of which, there's one more thing." He Yufeng said, "It seems we arrived earlier than the others. This might be because the person you first brought in was Xiaoqing."
He Yufeng recalled the various remaining clues he had discovered, "According to the information, the predecessors didn't know who Yaya was at first."
"They spent two or three days in the village, and every day a villager died innocently. The dead villagers were random, including players. They began to investigate the cause of the villagers' deaths, and finally learned the name Yaya from other villagers."
"They later learned that there was a woman named Xiaoqing in the village who had been locked up in the punishment room. Xiaoqing had a daughter named Yaya who had died not long ago."
"Xiaoqing's husband Erniu was the first to die."
Shen Yunzhe hissed, "Really?"
He Yufeng wondered why their story started earlier than others. However, this did allow them to get a lot of clues in advance.
What Shen Yunzhe thought was: the killing of Erniu was under his control, but he didn't expect that in the original plot, Erniu was also the first one to die. If a villager died that day, wouldn't he have to kill a villager early every morning?
What a hassle.
[Killing Erniu was a stroke of luck. Now that you have the plot, it's best to follow it.]
Okay, okay, follow the plot.
Thinking of this, Shen Yunzhe suddenly raised his eyebrows slightly. He looked at He Yufeng next to him, "He Yufeng."
"What?" He Yufeng looked at him.
"I've thought of a question," Shen Yunzhe said. "I remember Xiaoqing's plot goal was to find a way to leave the village. She's already at odds with the village, but the village's rules state that even after death, you must be buried in the village's allocated grave. No one is allowed to leave the village."
“Is this a contradiction of purpose?”
He Yufeng looked at Shen Yunzhe, "One asked to leave the village, while the other asked to stay."
“Different rules on both sides.”
Shen Yunzhe nodded. "We initially believed Xiaoqing, and even your former colleagues believed her because the players wanted to leave the mountain village playground. But after thinking about it... Xiaoqing's route was to leave the village. She didn't say that leaving the village meant leaving the playground."
He Yufeng took a breath of cold air.
"Even if Xiaoqing's route is correct, Pingchu's departure from the village doesn't mean he's leaving the playground! But he definitely violated the village rules!"
Village rules do not allow anyone to leave the village!
There’s a pit here!
He Yufeng immediately ran towards the cemetery, and Shen Yunzhe stood up and looked over.
Just then, a voice sounded behind Shen Yunzhe.
"Yaya, where is he going?" Xiaoqing said from behind him, "This kid is running so fast."
Shen Yunzhe looked back at Xiaoqing, thought for a moment, and then said, "A cemetery."
"The cemetery is where Mom wants to take Yaya away." Xiaoqing said gently, "There are many people buried there. Every time I go to see it, there are more people buried there."
She suddenly stopped talking, squatted down and looked at Shen Yunzhe, "Yaya, were you talking to your mother just now?"
Shen Yunzhe looked at her and nodded, "Yeah."
"Yaya, my Yaya!" Xiaoqing cried and laughed, "Mom will definitely take you away!"
Just then, Shen Yunzhe heard the ringing of a bell. The ringing was so urgent that it brought Xiaoqing, who was crying and laughing, out of her mood. They looked up and looked outside.
The villagers came out as the bell rang. Each of them carried farm tools. They stood at the door with expressionless faces, looking particularly strange.
The village chief came over with a bell in his hand. He walked from not far away, shaking the bell. The people in the village slowly followed the village chief. Xiaoqing looked at the bell and slowly followed. Since Xiaoqing followed, of course he had to follow and see.
Soon Shen Yunzhe followed a group of people to a familiar route and soon saw a familiar person.
He Yufeng stood beside the cemetery and looked at all the villagers coming over in confusion.
The village chief didn't pay attention to He Yufeng, and the bell he was shaking stopped.
He Yufeng took the opportunity to walk next to Shen Yunzhe.
"What's wrong?"
Shen Yunzhe shook his head.
After Shen Yunzhe shook his head, the village chief finally spoke.
"Everyone, our family has its own rules and regulations. We've all come this far. Rules make us stronger," the village chief said politely, expressionless. "But just today, a villager forgot the rules, forgot about the village, and actually left the mountain without permission."
"What should we do with people like this?"
The villagers raised their farm tools and shouted, "Kill him!"
The village chief looked at everyone and said, "That's right, anyone who violates the village rules and goes down the mountain without permission will be killed!"
He Yufeng immediately realized that they were talking about Ping Chu.
He, who was always silent and calm, seemed a little flustered. Shen Yunzhe grabbed his wrist to stop him from any possible panic.
But how could He Yufeng not be worried? He and Ping Chu grew up together, worked together as officials, and even became partners until now. Even if he was mentally prepared, he could not watch Ping Chu get injured or even die so calmly.
"Then you can't die with him." Shen Yunzhe whispered, "Let's see first."
There was a rustling sound from the grass and trees beside the cemetery, and the sound of human breathing could be heard. Ping Chu had almost exhausted all his strength at this time. When he saw the strange atmosphere not far away, he could no longer walk, but he did not let his guard down. He held on to a tree trunk five meters away from these people, looking at this place breathlessly.
Ping Chu is not stupid, he obviously noticed something was wrong.
His eyes swept over all the villagers holding farm tools, and finally stopped at Shen Yunzhe and He Yufeng in the back.
He thought quickly and soon remembered the village rules. He realized that if he followed Xiaoqing's method and went down the mountain, he would be violating the village rules.
It's really a dead end, you can't go down or up.
Depend on!
The first villager rushed up, Ping Chu dodged, but fell to the ground.
He had been going up and down the mountain all day and had long since run out of strength. It was a blessing that he could escape.
When he fell, Ping Chu gave He Yufeng a look, telling him to control himself and not come over.
More villagers walked over.
It is unknown how many official personnel were beaten to death here. When they believed Xiaoqing and were sure that it was an escape route, they were caught in a dilemma: going down was not the way to leave the playground, and going up was where the villagers were waiting.
This is too painful.
He Yufeng watched helplessly as the villagers surrounded Ping Chu. He gritted his teeth hard and felt the taste of blood in his mouth.
Ping Chu is a friend who grew up with him. They have been in the same school from elementary school to university, although they are not in the same major. Later, He Yufeng was tricked by his roommate into seeing a surprise easter egg, and thus entered the official work, but he did not expect to meet Ping Chu in the same place.
Ping Chu broke the rules and beat up his roommate severely, and since then they have been supporting each other to survive.
If Ping Chu must die, he would rather Ping Chu die after entering the game field, rather than watching Ping Chu being beaten to death by the strange creature and being unable to save him.
Shen Yunzhe held He Yufeng down hard, preventing him from passing.
"Can I control myself now?" Shen Yunzhe suddenly asked.
He Yufeng turned to look at Shen Yunzhe, but found that Shen Yunzhe was not looking at him, and the words did not seem to be directed at him.
Talking to yourself?
It seems that I have heard that Shen Yunzhe has a problem of talking to himself.
[After synchronization, your abilities will be enhanced, but I don't recommend changing your counterpart now. Once you do, you won't be able to continue substituting with Yaya, and you might even be discovered by her.]
"It doesn't matter, it only takes a moment." Shen Yunzhe said, "We can't go down the mountain or up the mountain, but there is a gap in the mountain. As long as we enter this gap, the villagers won't dare to chase us."
[Understood. This will probably buy me five seconds.]
"That's enough."
Shen Yunzhe let go of He Yufeng's hand, his eyes always looking forward. He Yufeng subconsciously took two steps back. He realized what Shen Yunzhe was going to do now.
The villagers raised their farm tools, and Pingchu was ready to die.
But at that moment, it was as if the air had frozen, and all the villagers were suddenly unable to move. If anyone could see, they would have discovered that countless invisible threads were coming from all directions, wrapping around the joints of each villager and controlling them tightly.
"Run!" Shen Yunzhe shouted.
Ping Chu quickly got up. He understood what Shen Yunzhe meant. He reacted quickly and turned around and ran down the mountain while the villagers were unable to move.
Creaking, the villagers twisted their limbs hard and the silk threads broke.
This was running for his life. Ping Chu heard the sound of breaking threads behind him and realized that Shen Yunzhe could only maintain it for a short time. He had never run so fast in his life. He jumped off the mountain at the last moment. The pickaxe head brushed against his hair and hit the frozen soil hard.
All the silk threads broke, Shen Yunzhe's eyes went dark, and he almost fell to the ground.
This time it was He Yufeng who supported him from behind.
"Run away?"
“Run away!!”
"The traitor has escaped!"
They said this, but withdrew their hands and turned back. The village chief no longer cared, and they began to retreat.
Shen Yunzhe breathed a sigh of relief. He felt a little better, at least his eyes were no longer filled with darkness. He raised his head and saw that the villagers had passed by them and were preparing to return to the village.
"I remember the plot said: A villager dies every day, and it's Yaya who kills him."
"That's true, but now that you've taken on Yaya's identity, I'm not sure if the background is still consistent." He Yufeng said, "And are you okay? You look very pale. Do you want to rest for a while?"
Shen Yunzhe squatted down and put his hands on the ground. "No, there is one more thing to do."
Invisible threads emerged from the ground. He Yufeng saw the villager walking at the end suddenly stop moving. Then he raised the pickaxe in his hand and smashed it hard on the villager next to him. The villager twitched and fell to the ground.
This unexpected plot made He Yufeng stunned for a moment and he was completely unable to react.
It wasn't just He Yufeng. The villagers in front who were obviously abnormal seemed to be suddenly normal because of this sudden situation. They looked at the person lying on the ground at the back in confusion, and then looked at the villager holding the bloody pick.
Only then did they suddenly notice that Xiaoqing was standing in front of the cemetery.
They looked at Xiaoqing in horror.
"It's Yaya!" Someone suddenly shouted, "Yaya is back for revenge!"
"Help!"
"Don't kill me, don't kill me! I didn't do anything, this is all Erniu's fault!"
"Run!"
Almost in an instant, all the villagers including the village chief ran away, leaving only the villagers who were suddenly crushed to death.
[I've overused my abilities. Don't use them today.]
"I don't use it much on weekdays." Shen Yunzhe murmured.
"And I'm just maintaining the plot. Yaya kills a villager a day in the plot. This is today's share."
He Yufeng looked at Shen Yunzhe in confusion and talked to himself again.
But this time he thought: Is Shen Yunzhe really just talking to himself?
Or is it that he is really talking to something that ordinary people cannot see or hear?
…
Ping Chu sat on the ground panting, his body covered in dust, but he didn't care at all. After all, his life was almost gone, who would care about a little dust.
He looked ahead. He had been running so fast that he didn't even realize where he had jumped from.
But this is obviously still in the mountains.
Ping Chu took out a red cloth from his pocket and then wrote a line of words on it with a black pen.
【Once you go down the mountain, don’t go back to the village! 】
After finishing writing, Ping Chu tied the red cloth strips to the tree. He wrote several strips and planned to hang the red cloth strips at intervals after he had rested enough, so that at least his traces would be left.
After confirming it, Ping Chu breathed a sigh of relief and lay down on the spot.
I didn't expect to survive.
When Ping Chu saw those villagers, he knew that he was probably finished this time. The village rules that he had long forgotten also resurfaced. Because he had been entangled in the Xiaoqing line, he always thought that the purpose of the Xiaoqing line was to leave the mountain village playground, and completely ignored the village rules.
"Shen Yunzhe really has a hidden trick that the authorities don't know about," Ping Chu murmured. "He delayed the villagers for a few seconds and saved my life."
If he could really get out alive, he would have one more secret. Alas, he owed Shen Yunzhe a life. He didn't intend to tell the higher-ups what Shen Yunzhe didn't want to say.
Thinking of this, Ping Chu stood up by holding the tree trunk and continued walking forward.
To hang up all these red ribbons, it is best to find a location close to the mountain village.
At least let Shen Yunzhe and He Yufeng know that I am still alive.
On the other side, He Yufeng sent Shen Yunzhe back to Xiaoqing's house. He asked Shen Yunzhe to have a good rest, and then went to the punishment room alone. He still remembered that there was a telescope in the punishment room. Due to Xiaoqing and Yaya's problem, no one passed by the punishment room, so He Yufeng brought out the telescope very easily.
He came to the cemetery with a telescope, walked to the edge and set up the telescope, then began to look for Ping Chu.
Soon he saw a red cloth strip not far away. The red cloth strip was wrapped into a danger sign. Ping Chu breathed a sigh of relief and continued to look. After a while, he saw a figure leaning against a tree trunk.
The familiar person seemed to be dozing off, and on the tree trunk he was leaning against, a simple symbol was carved out of stone.
He Yufeng recognized this symbol.
Officially, this symbol means: All is well.
He's fine.
He Yufeng breathed a sigh of relief.
It’s really great.
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