Chapter 57 Chapter 57 When Ren Xiaoyue returned, she happened to run into...
When Ren Xiaoyue was returning, she happened to meet Cross.
Unlike Ren Xiaoyue who was alone, Cross was surrounded by three people. He hung the camera around his neck and chatted with the group of people with a smile. When Ren Xiaoyue approached, he reluctantly said goodbye to the group of people: "Sorry, my sister is back, I have to go upstairs with her, we'll talk next time."
When Ren Xiaoyue and Cross went upstairs, she glanced at the three people out of the corner of her eye. After confirming that they were the three people living next door, Ren Xiaoyue withdrew her gaze.
"I found some interesting things again." Cross said after returning to the tree house.
Ren Xiaoyue looked at the shielding device that was flying up and down in his hands and asked doubtfully, "Say it now?"
"Right now." Cross held the shielding device, still not turning it on.
This time he was not as chattering as usual, and he did not explain what it meant to report the work progress without turning on the shielding device. Ren Xiaoyue was not surprised, because Cross's personality was like this, difficult to tell whether he was happy or angry, and unpredictable.
But Ren Xiaoyue can keep up with his pace.
As for why...it's simple, it's just a matter of practice.
In short, what Cross meant now was that using this thing might be discovered by the neighbors, so next, she could only say things that the neighbors could hear.
Ren Xiaoyue said carefully: "I met the tour guide today, and she took me around for a whole day."
"She's a warm person, but in some ways she's a little too calculating and a little weird."
Ren Xiaoyue just said these two sentences. Cross waited for a while, and when he saw that she was not going to speak, he raised his eyebrows.
"No more?" he asked.
Ren Xiaoyue nodded firmly.
This time I didn't give him a perfunctory answer. It was really useless. At the end of the day, the only information from the tour guide was useful.
Cross hummed and said to Ren Xiaoyue, "I took some photos here. The scenery here is very beautiful. I will develop the photos and show them to you after I go back."
"Those people just now also wanted to see my photos, but I told them that there is no environment for developing photos here. If they want to see them, we can contact each other after we go back."
Oh, there is something wrong with his photo, and the source of the problem is related to the neighbor. Ren Xiaoyue understood.
Cross then asked, "Do you want to be apart or together tomorrow?"
Ren Xiaoyue: "I'm tired and want to rest."
Today I took a walk around the places where tourists can visit, and it looks like it’s done. Tomorrow she would go directly to the places where tourists were forbidden to enter to investigate. This would allow her to pretend, part ways with Cross, and satisfy her curiosity, killing three birds with one stone.
Cross received her clear indication that she wanted to act separately, looked at her, and did not object to her idea.
"Since you are tired from playing, then have a good rest," Cross touched Ren Xiaoyue's head gently like a good brother, "I have an appointment with the brothers and sisters next door. I will go out with them tomorrow, so I won't accompany you."
After finishing the business, the two of them chatted for a while, with Cross doing most of the talking and Ren Xiaoyue responding with "hmm" and "ah". When the moon was at its zenith, they washed up and went to bed.
In the middle of the night, Ren Xiaoyue was dozing off in bed when she felt someone breaking into the tree house where they lived.
Ren Xiaoyue closed her eyes calmly and let the intruder rummage around. As she expected, the intruders searched the entire tree house but didn't find what they wanted. Before the intruders left, Ren Xiaoyue heard them discussing in low voices where the film was.
The voices are familiar, they are my friends next door.
The efficiency next door is quite high, and they arrived so quickly. It made her curious about what Cross had photographed.
The next morning, Ren Xiaoyue pretended to be sick and said goodbye to Cross reluctantly. After the door of the tree house was closed, she slowly moved to the window, watched Cross and the people from the next door leave together, and sighed.
Cross might have provoked the attitudes of the people next door. They were still cautious on the first night, but last night, they actually broke into a house they had never been to before because of a roll of film.
The guy next door is also unlucky, how come he was noticed by Cross?
She didn't stay in the tree house for long. After the people next door left the tree house, she walked towards the area where tourists were not allowed to enter.
Avoiding the patrolling guards, Ren Xiaoyue fished around in that area for a long time and did not return home until the evening.
In the next few days, Ren Xiaoyue found various excuses to separate from Cross. She left the tree house alone and entered the area where tourists were prohibited from entering.
It’s actually quite an exciting job. The tour guide even went to the tree house to look for her and blocked her at the door when she was about to go home.
The tour guide enthusiastically invited her to go out with her. She refused fearlessly, and the tour guide who had ulterior motives finally gave in and stopped bothering her.
On the second day of exploring that area, Ren Xiaoyue found a portrait of Noh in the saint's residence. The Noh in the portrait was her original appearance, which was different from the face she used now.
Seeing this portrait, Ren Xiaoyue guessed that this group of people had not given up on finding Noh and taking back the Soil of Creation.
It was obvious that Noh was able to get the portrait in the first place because of the saint at that time. Ren Xiaoyue thought.
On the third day of exploring that area, Ren Xiaoyue found some useful clues.
In order to avoid being lazy, she stepped into the deep forest, going far enough to reach corners that even the locals rarely set foot in. As she went deeper into the forest, signs of human activity became fewer and fewer, and the forest became quieter and quieter. Even the birds' songs gradually faded away, leaving only the rustling whispers of leaves.
Ren Xiaoyue accidentally discovered a place similar to a secret base deep in this sparsely populated forest. The simple tree house is built on the high branches. Ren Xiaoyue climbed up to the tree house and found a diary there. She flipped through it briefly and found that the diary looked like it was written by a child.
The contents of the diary are very scattered. Today I write about what I ate, tomorrow I write about a doll I got, and so on. Ren Xiaoyue looked for a long time before she figured out some clues.
The owner of the diary is one of the next generation of candidates for the Saint, but she does not want to be a Saint, does not want to receive Saint training, and does not like harvest celebrations.
As far as she could remember, the harvest celebrations had always ended with human sacrifices. The adults said that the sacrifices were "sinners" who had made mistakes and were being chosen as sacrifices to atone for their sins, but she felt uncomfortable.
She wanted to leave the tribe, travel around and see the wider world. She also wrote in her diary that compared to her who had no ideas and yearned for the outside world, her sister who had been working hard was obviously more suitable.
In addition to this diary, Ren Xiaoyue also found another one nearby. The handwriting on the other diary was much neater and there were no typos. She flipped through them and confirmed that both diaries were written by the same person, but the latter was written at a later time.
This diary is much more organized. From the text, we can see that the owner of the diary hates the harvest festival more and more as she grows older, and she begins to question the significance of the harvest festival. In her adult years, she befriended an outsider.
Unfortunately, this outsider was chosen as the sacrifice.
This time, the owner of the diary began to question whether the sacrifice was actually a "sinner". The outsiders she knew were warm, cheerful, kind-hearted and generous. If people like this are sinners, then at least half of the people in the world are sinners.
As doubts about the harvest festival grow, she goes undercover to investigate.
She did not write the results of the investigation in her diary. At the end of the diary, she said that she would reveal all the truth, end the sinful harvest celebration, and hoped that the gods would bless her.
Ren Xiaoyue put the diary back to its place and erased all traces of herself. On the way back, combined with the outline given by the system, she felt that she had understood what was going on with this tribe.
The tribal celebration is actually a sacrifice of innocent people. After Noh took away the soil of creation, the people in the tribe deceived their compatriots and used foreign "sinners" to maintain the prosperity of the tribe. The owner of the diary, some unknown saint, discovered this and decided to stop her compatriots.
Judging from the fact that the harvest festival is still used as a tourist gimmick, the owner of the diary probably failed.
The method of screening sinners... Ren Xiaoyue suspected it was the sacred stone at the gate. Only such a thing would be touched by every outsider entering the tribe.
Now the only thing she didn't understand was what those people next door were doing here.
Ren Xiaoyue swore that while she was thinking about this, she was also paying attention to her surroundings, and somehow, she got lost.
When she turned to the familiar big tree for the third time, Ren Xiaoyue realized this with sadness.
She stopped walking in that direction and began to explore more consciously. It took Ren Xiaoyue some time to figure out that she was not lost, but had entered the defensive magic circle here. Those who don't know the correct way to go out will get lost here.
The magic circle affects the land, not the people who enter the circle. It is for this reason that the magic circle is not directly invalidated by her supernatural power.
She can enlarge the effective range of her supernatural power and break the formation directly, but in this way, anyone who sneaks in here will be discovered.
Ren Xiaoyue leaned against the tree and fell into deep thought.
In the end, since she had never studied the supernatural magic array, she could only spend a little popularity value to ask for help from the system. The system told her that once the magic circle was activated, there was no way to leave without destroying it. It could only provide her with a way to leave that would destroy the magic circle but not trigger the alarm.
The system also said that there would be a different price for repairing the magic circle, and then gave a sky-high price.
Ren Xiaoyue thought about it for a while and didn't pay the extra price.
Although she was stuck in this magic circle and wasted a lot of time, Ren Xiaoyue still managed to get back without arousing suspicion from the neighbors. Looking at the person next door who was getting more and more familiar with Cross, Ren Xiaoyue seemed to be hesitant to speak.
What did the pangolin say? No, what on earth were the people next door doing here?
By midnight, Ren Xiaoyue found out from the latest comics what the people next door were here for.
Perhaps it was because what she and Cross had done in the past few days contained too much information, and Ren Xiaoyue read out several chapters while lying in bed in the middle of the night. She opened the comic and read it chapter by chapter.
These comics not only provide plots from her perspective, but also provide plots from Cross' perspective. From another perspective, Ren Xiaoyue learned that the group of people next door were related to the outsider in the diary.
When on the bus, Ren Xiaoyue guessed that someone in the group next door had disguised himself. The comics confirmed her idea and she was right.
Let’s call the disguised person A. This was not A's first time here. She had come to this beautiful tribe with the outsiders in her diary. During that harvest celebration, outsiders who befriended the diary's owner were sacrificed. A ran away.
A has come back now for revenge and to destroy the tribe. The people who came with her were all her helpers. Some of them were hired by A, and some were friends of the deceased outsider.
As for why they were looking for Cross's film, it was because they found that Cross had filmed the scene of them placing explosives in the tribe, and they were afraid that this would be discovered, so they were looking for the film.
As for why they became more and more familiar with Cross over the past two days, that was due to Cross's own ability.
After reading the latest episode, Ren Xiaoyue turned off the screen and felt that she had collected all the puzzle pieces and completely understood everything.
Why did she understand everything? Let’s start from the source of everything - more than a hundred years ago.
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