Chapter 215: Inhuman (23) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update) [VIP]
The audience on the barrage seemed to have remembered something:
【Oh, oh, oh, I remember a little bit. 】
【Remember what? 】
【I remember this strange story.】
Bai Jinshu's gaze subconsciously fell on the screen.
[Do you remember the content of this strange story? ]
[No, I remember what this strange story is about.]
【What's going on? 】
[The anchor's story is a limited story, with a triggering frequency requirement. There are only eight triggers in the refresh cycle, and they are recycled after being used once.]
The trigger... that jade furnace?
Bai Jinshu frowned slightly.
Yes, after they came in, the jade furnace disappeared.
Shouldn't triggers play an important role in ghost stories? Just like the model application form in Xuxu Photo Studio, why did the jade furnace disappear after entering?
Eight jade furnaces, eight roads, does that mean there is one in every place where fire can start...
Bai Jin's thoughts were interrupted by Xiao Fei's voice just as he reached this point: "Hey, Xiao He? Why are you up the mountain?"
He subconsciously looked in the direction of Xiao Fei's voice and saw Xiao He standing under a tree in the middle of the mountain.
When he heard Xiao Fei's voice, he actually looked up at the two of them, then turned around and ran away without saying a word.
"Hey...?" Xiao Fei was startled by his action, "Why are you running?"
What's going on, Xiao He?
"Is there something behind us?" He paused, then suddenly turned his head.
Behind the two of them was the path leading down the mountain, and apart from that, there was nothing else.
In just a short while, Xiao He disappeared.
"What's going on?" Xiao Fei was confused by this episode and subconsciously looked at Bai Jinshu, "Er Ge, what's going on? Should we chase him?"
"I don't know either." Bai Jinshu's thoughts were suddenly interrupted, and the weather was hot, so his expression was naturally not good.
Xiao Fei took a few tentative steps forward, complaining as he walked: "No, why did he run when he saw us? Are we some kind of monster?"
The direction Xiao He left seemed to lead deeper into the mountains.
"Er Ge..." Xiao Fei walked a few steps and didn't dare to go any further. The deeper into the forest, the darker it was. If he went any further in, there would be no way to go.
On a hot summer day, he thought of the formation they had discovered before and shuddered: "Could it be that Xiao He is possessed by something? Didn't they say that their house would be the next to burn?"
"It shouldn't be..." Bai Jinshu frowned, "If there was a fire at Xiao He's house tonight and he was possessed, then why aren't Shi Xiuzhu, Shi Xiulan and I possessed?"
It was their house that was burned down two days ago.
"On the first day, you were in the fields, and on the second day, we all went shopping." Xiao Fei ran back, his tone still frightened, "You were not in the village! But Xiao He was here today!"
There seems to be nothing wrong with saying this.
"Did you see Xiao He go into the woods just now?" Bai Jinshu pinched his brows and stretched out his hand to block the increasingly dazzling sunlight.
"Yes," Xiao Fei nodded, "Brother Er, why don't we go down quickly? I'm afraid something has happened down there."
They have been here for several hours. The signal is not good in the deep mountains and they are far away. If something really happened down there, Xiao He might be the one who came up to inform them.
"Then let's go." Bai Jinshu thought about it and felt that it was possible. He clenched the drawing paper in his hand and started to rush towards the village with Xiaofei under the scorching sun.
There were not many people along the way. I don’t know if it was because something happened in the village or because the sun had already risen at this time and the villagers were unwilling to go out.
The two walked and ran all the way and soon arrived at the village entrance.
When we arrived at the village, there were finally more people around.
But the strange thing was that everyone seemed to be rushing towards a certain direction in the village.
The two were at a loss, and finally Xiao Fei grabbed a woman whose name he still remembered and said, "Aunt Wu, what happened?"
"Hey, Xiaochuan and Xiaobo?"
Aunt Wu turned around and looked at the two of them in surprise: "Where did you two go this morning? Your mother has been looking for you for a long time and said that you two didn't go to Xiaohe's house at all!"
Did anyone look for them this morning?
The two looked at each other, and Bai Jinshu said decisively: "Xiaobo and I went to paint together this morning. Now that the weather is getting hot, we are going to come back."
"Xiaochuan..." As expected, as soon as Aunt Wu saw Bai Jinshu, her angry expression immediately softened, "Where did you go to paint? The weather is so hot, just stay home next time."
"Aunt Wu," Bai Jinshu made a strange expression, "It's only a little after ten o'clock, what does Aunt Rong want us to do?"
From what Fifth Aunt said, Aunt Rong is looking for Xiaofei very anxiously. Didn’t she say that there is nothing that needs to be done by them youngsters?
"Oh, this..." Aunt Wu slapped her forehead, "I was so anxious that I forgot to tell you two that the gentleman I met when I went out of Xiaoxi just came up the mountain! He is in the ancestral hall now!"
"Ancestral hall?" Xiao Fei immediately exclaimed in surprise.
It’s only the third day and this gentleman has already arrived?
He thought that this ghost story would last for five days, and this person would only make a grand appearance on the last day to solve the problem.
"Yes, yes, this gentleman and the man beside him are amazing!" Aunt Wu opened her mouth and began to talk nonstop, "You two don't know, this gentleman arrived at the entrance of the village early this morning, not long after the sun rose, and he brought a handsome boy with him! Xiaoxi was the first to recognize that it was the gentleman!"
"When everyone heard that it was that gentleman, they quickly invited him in, and asked why he had troubled to come up the mountain by himself. If we had known he was coming up, we should have sent someone to greet him..." Aunt Wu lowered her voice mysteriously, "Guess what the gentleman said in the end?"
"What do you mean?" Xiao Fei asked cooperatively.
"He said that once you prepare the necessary things for the ritual, he will come naturally." Aunt Wu widened her eyes a little, "Just tell me, it's magical! Xiaoxi doesn't have his phone number, so how did he know that we had prepared everything!"
"God, God..." The two nodded.
"But..." Xiao Fei scratched his head, "If this person has been waiting at the bus stop, he can actually know that we have prepared the things we need for the ritual. Anyway, there is only one way back to the village."
"You kid!" Aunt Wu rolled her eyes at him. "It's not that simple. Do you think we are stupid?"
She dropped the basket on her arm and continued in a low voice, "What's even more amazing is what happened next... We had only walked a few steps inside when Xiaoxue's parents came out to greet us. But the man next to the gentleman said as soon as he saw them that the fire in your house had died down, so why did you come here to greet them instead of going to see if there was anything that could be saved?"
"You don't know...the couple's faces changed immediately," Aunt Wu said vividly, "and they told us later that the fire was indeed much smaller when they came over, but they thought that the fire had been burning for a day and a night, and anything valuable had been burned anyway, so it didn't matter whether they put it out early or late, so they might as well come here to pick up the gentleman."
"And then?" Bai Jinshu asked.
"And there was more than just this one. The person next to that gentleman was so good at predicting things that he pointed out several urgent matters in a row, which really stumped everyone!"
“As a result, at this time…” Aunt Wu lowered her voice and raised her eyebrows subtly, “So-and-so’s sister-in-law, who got married just a few years ago, bravely went up to ask when she could have a child…”
In the city and the countryside, this kind of thing really spreads the fastest.
Aunt Wu did not shy away from the two younger generations. She estimated that the matter had already spread throughout the village. "Guess what that person said. He said that if you don't get a divorce, you will never have children in this life. Don't you know that your husband is not good enough?"
ah?
Both of them were stunned for a moment.
Is this... something that can be said in public?
Sure enough, what Aunt Fifth said next was extremely explosive.
"As soon as these words came out, her husband's face turned green in an instant, and that person's sister-in-law went crazy. She picked up a broom from the side and chased him to beat him, cursing as she beat him, saying, 'I told you long ago that you are not good enough, we need a divorce, you son of a bitch! I was so blind to believe your bullshit, your family has been hiding this from me before I got married!"
She spoke vividly and her facial expressions were lifelike, and it was obvious that she had often eaten melon seeds and gossiped in the village.
The two people who heard it were stunned.
Later, the two heard Auntie Wu tell several more stories, such as pointing out that a certain family had been unlucky for years because of the bad Feng Shui of their house, that an uncle who walked without any problems had injured his legs, and that a notorious scoundrel in the village had stolen other people's poultry.
In short, in her mouth, this young man who came with her husband was simply a god. Nothing in the world could escape his control. He even knew how many bowls of rice everyone had at night. He was simply a god.
She even changed her way of addressing the young man to the more respectful "Sir".
In a short while, this "Mr." became a more popular figure in the whole village than the old "Mr." because of this skill.
"The villagers invited him to the ancestral hall and asked him to look at everyone's problems one by one," Aunt Wu patted the small basket she was carrying. "I thought about it. My child is still in school in the town. I wanted to ask, with his current grades, can he go to college in the future? So I brought the teacher the child's cut hair, nails and clothes."
"If the gentleman needs it, I will go to the school and prick his fingertips for blood! I hope my child can go to a university in a big city in the future! I will do whatever the gentleman says!"
Isn’t this... too exaggerated?
It is better to go to school to ask the class teacher about your child's academic performance and then rent a house to accompany your child while he/she is studying, rather than asking a charlatan who came from nowhere, right?
The charlatan may not even know whether the current system is divided into arts and science or 3+3. If you expect him to help your child go to college, it would be better to enroll him in a cram school...
Bai Jinshu twitched his lips, but still didn't say anything so hateful.
Parents who want their children to be successful are very scared. He suspected that once these words were spoken out, even if Xiaochuan was the darling of the village, it would not be able to save him.
The two followed the nagging Fifth Aunt all the way to the ancestral hall, and then they were simply shocked by the scene before them.
The crowd filled the ancestral hall, three layers deep inside and three layers deep outside, and seemed to be queuing up to ask questions one by one.
Aunt Wu slapped her forehead in annoyance when she saw the situation: "Oh, I'm late! It's all my fault that I spent so much time looking for the hair I left for the baby."
So the hair she brought was still a souvenir from the past...
"Fortunately, my husband is queuing inside!" Aunt Wu muttered, and stretched out a hand to rudely push away the people in front of her, "Make way! Make way! My husband Changsheng is queuing inside, make way!"
Bai Jinshu and Xiao Fei followed her and actually got in the innermost part.
Relying on Xiaochuan's invincible face, many villagers enthusiastically pushed him in, saying as they pushed him in: "It's too hot outside, Xiaochuan, come in and take a rest. Two gentlemen have come to the ancestral hall, and we have turned on the air conditioner!"
Xiao Fei followed Bai Jinshu and was also taken care of by the villagers.
The two followed Aunt Five all the way into the innermost part of the ancestral hall. As expected, the air conditioner was on in the hall. The air was icy cold and everyone shivered as soon as they entered.
Aunt Wu was not scared away by the cold air. She carried the basket, held up the tuft of baby hair, looked around and shouted, "Changsheng! Changsheng, I brought the baby's hair here!"
Soon, a middle-aged man's voice was heard: "Here!"
At the same time, Xiao Tang also quietly came over from behind and gently patted Xiao Fei on the shoulder: "This way, come here."
"Fuck..." Xiao Fei was suddenly patted on the back, and he almost blurted out "Sister Xiao Tang! Don't scare me! Scaring people can kill them!"
"Shh, keep your voice down, don't talk nonsense," Xiao Tang made a "hush" gesture, glanced at Bai Jinshu, and lowered his voice, "You two come over here first and talk."
The two were puzzled and followed Xiao Tang into the ancestral hall for a short distance, only to find that everyone was there.
Xiao He is here too.
"Xiao He, why did you run when you saw us?" Xiao Fei asked quickly.
"Why are you running?" Xiao He's face was full of confusion, "I'm not running?"
"On the mountain, I called you on the mountain, why were you running, and how come you are faster than us..." Xiao Fei was interrupted by Xiao Tang before he could finish his words.
"Shh, keep your voice down, they don't know we are here."
The triggerers were actually hiding from the crowd.
Xiao Fei immediately shut up.
After he shut up, he realized that among the crowd, the three brothers were sitting on the ground with pale faces, not saying a word.
"What's going on?" Xiao Fei was shocked.
"The three of them were exposed..." Xiao Tang lowered his voice, "When the gentleman outside came, the three of them happened to be at the scene. Their father went up to ask about the harvest, and then said that he had three sons so that he could harvest the crops. As a result, he was exposed by the gentleman."
"It's revealed...how did you say it?" Bai Jinshu frowned.
"He said... Don't you only have one son? How did you get three?" On the ground, one of the three brothers said in a hoarse voice, "As soon as he said this, the man seemed to wake up from a dream and reacted immediately. He said, "Yes, he only has one son, how did three come from..."
“Then the three of us… vomited blood instantly,” a person next to us continued. “Then, it was as if this body was not ours. We couldn’t move at all, even our eyeballs couldn’t move. It was as if we were petrified or turned into a vegetable. We still had feeling at that time, but we couldn’t control our bodies to react. It was the other people who were present at the time who supported us…”
It sounded like the triggerer's soul was trapped in this body after the identity was revealed.
"After the group of people swarmed away, a villager passed by and saw the three of us lying beside him. He was shocked and asked us what happened," the last of the three brothers spoke. "At the moment when the villager spoke to me, I felt that my fingers could move suddenly."
Suddenly they could talk.
The three brothers quickly said that they had fainted from the heat. The villager passing by said a few words of concern and then hurried towards the ancestral hall.
"Hiss..." Xiao Fei took a breath, "In other words, you have obtained the identity that others think that the three of you are equal to you, and only after this recognition can you regain consciousness and control of your body?"
"...Yes," they nodded, their voices all hoarse, "So after the three of us recover, let Xiao He find the others, Shi Xiuzhu and Xiao Tang. The four of them must not appear in front of that gentleman, otherwise we'll be in trouble."
The seven of them were forcibly placed into one family. If their identity issues were pointed out in front of everyone, they would be doomed.
"Then..." Xiao Fei suddenly became nervous, "Do we have to avoid this gentleman from now on?"
Judging from the experiences of the three brothers, once the truth is revealed and spread, the person who triggered the failed disguise will be trapped in an uncontrollable body and watch himself die.
The excitement and desire to complain when listening to gossip disappeared in an instant, and turned into lingering fear.
"That's not necessarily true," Xiao Tang twitched his lips and grabbed Bai Jinshu's shoulders, "Do you know who that gentleman is?!"
"Who?" Xiao Fei hadn't reacted yet, but Bai Jinshu already had a subtle bad feeling.
"It's that big monster! The big monster in Fox Wedding!" Xiao Tang shook his shoulder frantically, "It's you who brought up that weird story! You brought it up, so go solve it!"
As expected.
Bai Jinshu felt that he was becoming immune to the magical identity that Huai Jiamu had acquired.
The comments in the live broadcast room were strangely in sync with Xiao Tang:
[Why did the anchor bring out a big monster? 】
[Why did the anchor bring up such a strange story? 】
[Why doesn't this ghost story recognize these three brothers? Haven't they met before? ]
[The big monster doesn't seem to be very familiar with anyone other than the anchor. 】
[God knows him well, is he familiar with the anchor? Didn’t they meet for the first time yesterday? ]
…
Xiao Tang said in a frantic voice: "Why on earth? That big monster doesn't seem to recognize us! What on earth did you do?!"
Bai Jinshu touched the tip of his nose silently: "I don't know what I did!"
"No, you must have done something!" Xiao Tang said firmly, "Anyway, I don't care, just solve it quickly. If he keeps saying this, we will be wiped out!"
Bai Jinshu: "...How can I solve this problem?"
Huai Jiamu was now surrounded by villagers in three layers, and it was difficult for him to even take a look. If he wanted to solve the problem, he had to at least let others see him.
Xiao Tang obviously misunderstood what he meant and thought he was asking about solutions.
The girl thought for a long time with ill intentions, and finally whispered: "□□? Promise yourself to me? Wedding night?"
"Hey, hey, hey, don't glare at me! I'm just trying to find a permanent solution!" She shrank her neck, "Aren't you the fox bride? Maybe she will only recognize you and think that we are just passers-by, that man and that woman, and therefore not worth remembering!"
Bai Jinshu held his forehead with his hand: "...Forget it, I'll handle it myself, you guys stay here and don't go out."
Anyway, he estimated that Huai Jiamu would not be able to recognize these people, and that he had inexplicably blended into this weird story. Based on past experience, he just needed to make him recognize himself. The reason he did not recognize them before was probably because his memory had not recovered.
"Go! Fox Bride!" Xiao Tang made a cheering gesture to him, "We will provide you with all the support except the action!"
Bai Jinshu waved his hand: "Just shutting up is the greatest support you can give me."
How come a good person has a mouth on his face?
Xiao Tang made a zipper-up gesture: "Got it!"
A crowd of people watched Bai Jinshu walk out of here with the eyes of a warrior seeing off a warrior.
Although Xiao Tang made jokes, everyone knew that it was actually very dangerous to go out and face the gentleman who was transformed from a big monster.
The big monster had been traveling with them for a long time but didn't recognize them. There was no guarantee that Ersi would be recognized if he went there, so he was just taking a gamble on the possibility that the big monster might remember him.
Success means that everyone will be free from the crisis of being recognized and their identities exposed; failure means Naersi will be the first to die.
Now there are people all around him. If his identity is revealed in this situation, it is equivalent to telling the whole village that he is a fake Xiaochuan. Since no one dares to go out to save him, the biggest possibility for Ersi is that he will die outside.
But they had to take the risk, otherwise they would have no chance of avoiding that gentleman for the next three or four days.
Therefore, this is the only way, and we can only hope that Ersi, who agreed immediately, has his own failure plan.
Everyone watched Ersi walk out, never considering that Ersi himself might not have considered the possibility of a failure plan.
As Bai Jinshu walked, he felt a chill on his back as someone was staring at him from behind, so he quickly quickened his pace.
He was almost accustomed to Huai Jiamu dissolving into the copy. He had dealt with this kind of situation many times and had never really thought about the possibility of failure.
Sure enough, he didn't fail.
As soon as "Xiaochuan" appeared in front of everyone, the enthusiastic villagers pushed him to the front, saying that his father and mother had just been looking for him for a long time and they must have something to ask the gentleman.
Bai Jinshu was pushed and shoved by the crowd and suddenly stood at the front of the crowd.
Xiaochuan's parents were in front of him. When they saw him coming, they held his hands with a smile on their faces and whispered, "Xiaochuan, this master is really good. He said before that Xiaohe and the others will be rich soon. Your parents don't want you to be rich, but want to help you ask about your marriage and see when you will get married. Go up and show your hands to the master later."
Without waiting for him to refuse, the enthusiastic couple carried him and dragged him to the front.
Xiaochuan was really weak and was completely unable to defeat the two middle-aged couple who had been doing farm work all year round. He was dragged in front of Huai Jiamu with a complicated look on his face.
Looking closely, this person is really dressed like a human...
Bai Jinshu's mouth twitched. He felt that Huai Jiamu, wearing a black Zhongshan suit and sitting in the middle of the ancestral hall, looked more like the village chief than the village chief.
Even if he wears black in this weather, he won’t die of the heat.
While he was complaining, his hand was suddenly handed to the gentleman.
Huai Jiamu's expression showed that he had obviously recovered his memory. The middle-aged woman next to him was still muttering, "Sir, please take a look. This is the child I just mentioned. His name is Xiaochuan. He is weak, but he is quiet and has a good personality. His father and I are worried about whether he can find a wife and have a child. Can you take a look?"
Now that it has come to this, it would be impolite not to take a look.
Bai Jinshu felt his hand being taken by Huai Jiamu, so he raised his eyebrows and followed suit: "Take a look?"
"Sir, let me take a look!" the middle-aged man next to him also spoke up.
Three faces looked over. The two on the sides showed the same expectation and respect, while the one in the middle just wanted to watch the fun.
Let’s see whose fun it is…of course it’s Huai Jiamu’s.
Bai Jinshu is now very curious about what he is going to say.
Although he didn't know how he managed to keep it a secret, he was now very curious about whether Huai Jiamu saw Xiaochuan's life or his own.
“Isn’t it too bad…” Huai Jiamu was silent for too long, and the middle-aged couple next to him murmured softly, “Sir, why don’t you just say it directly, Xiaochuan has been weak since he was a child, we can all bear it!”
"Yeah," Bai Jinshu nodded insincerely, "I can bear anything. I can bear anything."
The implication is that you can just make up one.
After all, he didn't want to hang Huai Jiamu here.
Now all the triggerers are juniors in the village. It's rare that Huai Jiamu has found someone with some ability. Now basically, the villagers believe whatever he says. With such a useful identity, he must be sick to ruin the stage that Huai Jiamu has worked so hard to build.
He winked at Huai Jiamu, indicating that he should just make up something and deal with the situation as soon as possible. They would be leaving in three days anyway, and it was none of their business what happened to the original owner in the future.
The person on the other side should understand this look.
Seeing this, Bai Jinshu prepared to withdraw his hand.
He pulled it, but it didn't move at all.
Bai Jinshu:?
Why are you holding his hand?
He looked up and met the man's face, which seemed to understand. Then, Huai Jiamu carefully held his hand, looked at it seriously for a long time, and slowly uttered a few words: "You ask about offspring? No descendants."
As soon as these words were spoken, the entire ancestral hall was in an uproar.
The two middle-aged couples on both sides seemed to accept it well: "It's okay... It's okay... As long as the child is happy, it's fine. Since there will be no descendants, then they must not have gotten married..."
"I did get married," Huai Jiamu replied immediately.
Bai Jinshu glared and squeezed his hand.
That's about it.
Just say something to fool around, but you're going to keep talking, right? Next, the couple must ask about the identity, position, character, personality, and appearance of the marriage partner!
Sure enough, the couple asked immediately.
Bai Jinshu seized the opportunity and pinched him viciously.
Look, we are in trouble!
You don't look like a good liar, let's see how you can tell a lie now...
Really...
Although most of the time he could remember that Huai Jiamu was once an evil god, the longer he spent with him, the more he felt that this man was incredibly gullible, and it was difficult for people to associate him with such behavior as lying and making up stories.
"The person you want to marry is far away..."
At this moment, the old man next to him who had not spoken a word patted the table, attracting everyone's attention: "Okay, your child is very good and lucky, don't worry."
He first said to the couple: "This child is the best in the village, don't rush it."
Then, he said to everyone in the ancestral hall: "Everyone, the time for our ritual is almost up. We stayed here with everyone before to wait for noon. Now that noon is approaching, we need to prepare for the ritual. When we are ready, we will join you again!"
The ritual was far more important than these things, so the villagers quickly dispersed, diligently making way for the gentleman, and surrounded him as he walked out of the ancestral hall.
The couple also walked out. Bai Jinshu stood in front of Huai Jiamu and shook his hand expressionlessly: "Are you going to let go?"
Everyone has left, what is there to pretend?
It must be tiring for him to maintain this bent posture, right?
The culprit who was holding his wrist looked up at that, revealing a pair of very dark eyes.
"No loosening." said the evil god who pretended to be a charlatan.
His voice was filled with anger, as if he had misheard. "I haven't finished yet..."
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Brother Jiamu: "Far away in the horizon..." (interrupted) Right before our eyes
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