Chapter 67 "The Little Taoist Priest" — How to get along with someone you like at first sight...
That evening, Zhong Ding arranged rooms for him and Daoist Jian. As a "furnace" or "bed warmer" that the Celestial Master could casually pull onto the bed, Daoist Jian did not sleep in the room next to the head of the household on his second night after descending the mountain. Instead, he was sent to the farthest tea garden.
The person taking care of him was named Lanlan. She was originally a servant girl born into the household, and she was the twin-tailed maid who was supposed to be assigned to Master Zhong tonight.
The newbie NPC looks cute, with big eyes and braids, but she has a grumpy face, so it seems hard to raise her favorability.
Lanlan: "I was supposed to serve the master! Tonight it's all because of some people..."
She was hoping people would call her "Grandma," and now this has happened.
Jane Dieda was just as speechless as she was: "How about I give you this opportunity now?"
The young girl coldly shrugged at him: "No! A good marriage is gone if it's gone. Maybe it was never meant to be mine anyway. Besides, you running away like this is the one thing you're doing wrong to my master. Do you know how much risk he took for you..."
The young Taoist priest really wanted to run away. He originally thought that Zhong Mansion was an NPC supply respawn point where they could help him repair the peach wood sword, but he ended up losing more than he gained.
But having just enjoyed a delicious late-night snack, Master Jian would give the world a two-second smile. Uncharacteristically, without any social anxiety, he proactively asked Lanlan, "I'm not running away. Tell me, where are the Zhongding people?"
Strangely enough, even now, just hearing the name still gives Jian Dieda a jolt.
The teeth and corners of the lips seemed to be pulled by the emotion of oxygen deprivation in the brain, causing an inertial bite.
This is a bit broken, and the area that has been treated with medicine is where Zhong Ding previously opened his mouth to nibble, lick, and kiss.
He therefore attributed this strange feeling to...fear.
Because when Zhong Ding tore his clothes on the dimly lit embroidered bed, his blood-red eyes really looked like those of a demon in a demonic state, devouring people.
But in the end, it was just a misunderstanding. He didn't know that person. He was just lying to Uncle Wu. He could have explained it to Master Zhong and then left.
But he seems to have oversimplified things.
Lanlan didn't directly explain Zhong Ding's whereabouts. She took a quilt from the trunk for the young Taoist priest, spread it out, and then put on a soft, imported Western woolen blanket, saying, "Haven't you heard the legend of the master in Qingyang Town? This month, because of some things that happened, the town mayor and the others are going to hold a mountain god festival by Cilonggou. If the offerings aren't arranged properly, the gods above won't help. The Celestial Master is the medium between ghosts and gods and the living; his body is very precious."
Upon hearing this, Jian Dieda was able to immediately picture a person without clothes on.
It's very sensual.
She is alluring yet not effeminate, and her beauty surpasses all others.
It's rare to see a grown man with long hair, long nails, and such a tall, imposing figure with an absolute dominant aura... But things have changed tonight. The Grand Master went to take a bath. When will he go to Cilonggou next?
"Tell Lanlan to keep an eye on that furnace. He has to tell me everything he does. We can't let anyone else hear about this dirty business."
Uncle Zhong was sitting there drinking tea, unable to fall asleep.
Like Jian Dieda, his mind was still filled with the scene from earlier, and what made things worse was Zhong Ding's subsequent attitude of 'keeping' him.
Everyone knows that Master Qingyang is a living immortal, patrolling the realm on behalf of Heaven and protecting the land. However, they don't know that if Zhong Ding had truly chosen a young woman like Lanlan, the vessel would have to be sacrificed after the first use. This is because a virtuous woman's chastity is only once, and the gods will not allow the sacrifice to be repeatedly defiled. This is the real reason why Master Zhong had never allowed women to serve him before. Now that Zhong Ding has found a male vessel, it conveniently saves the life of an innocent woman like Lanlan. Furthermore, since Jian Dieda is a man, he doesn't need to be executed immediately. However, the clan will inevitably question whether the gods can accept this…
Master Zhong is currently too busy to deal with this matter.
Before he went to take a bath, he said, "Fifth Uncle, I have been living a life worse than death for many years. Qingyang Town is in a turbulent time right now. It's not easy to find a male vessel to use. Please think of a way to help me."
Yes, the whole town is counting on Zhong Ding. Human sacrifice is harmful to the body, but only those with five deficiencies and three lacks can become the Celestial Master. So he was born paralyzed, and it's no wonder that Zhong Ding has been sad and world-weary in recent years.
The more Uncle Wu thought about it, the more heartbroken he became, so he truly endured the matter and forbade everyone to gossip about Zhong Ding taking a man into the backyard.
"Yes, Fifth Master."
Fifth Uncle's men nodded in unison. They didn't actually know what the person in question looked like. They had only taken a quick look and remembered that Jian Dieda was not very old and was thin and frail. He was not at all charming and attractive. He was lying on the bed like a mangy dog, clinging to Zhong Ding's fair arm, and shamelessly showing off his bare round buttocks.
Then think back to the blue Taoist robe and beggar's bag that were found by the head of the family's bed. This simpleton was just after money; he was one of those lowly people who went from street to street begging for coins.
Exactly, damn it, how did such a stinking beggar become so lucky? If Master Zhong hadn't taken some aphrodisiac, he definitely wouldn't have been able to bring himself to do it.
The group figured that this poor Taoist priest must look like a monstrous rat, and the head of the household probably wouldn't be interested for long before kicking him out of the mansion.
That night, truth and falsehood mingled, reality and illusion intertwined.
Some people are lying, and some are helping to cover up the lies, but these are not enough to form a complete investigation plot to find out who the "Red-Clothed Demon" is.
The only evidence that the game's eyes are still observing people is the sound of a mechanical stopwatch:
[Current story progress: 30%]
[Congratulations on successfully surviving the second night and completing the 48-hour survival period! You are now rewarded with a copy of "The Complete Encyclopedia of Ancient Emperors, Physiognomists, and Astrology" 1.0. This book can help you predict the weather, calculate your zodiac sign, provide navigation, and even offer information on predicting the Red Phoenix Star, comparable to the effects of dating websites like Jiayuan.com...]
"Shut up."
Tongzi: "I can shut up, but the way you kept blushing after giving a kiss to a stranger tonight was adorable."
Jane Dieda really wanted to go to hell.
Who developed this little bald head?
He didn't.
The dignified Master Jian Burang would not be ashamed of such a thing.
He didn't dwell on the name Zhong Ding; whenever he saw the moonlight outside the window, he would blush and hide under the covers, lost in thought for a long time.
Besides, no matter how realistic an NPC is, he's still a player. A truly indifferent player is better off solving the case sooner rather than later.
There was no point in saying more in this situation. Jian Dieda recalled what Furong Dan and Bai Xiaosheng had said, and also connected it with what Lanlan had mentioned about the sacrifice. He turned over and opened the astrology book to organize the clues. In the overnight system panel, he found the ancient book, but the content of the book was mostly in traditional Chinese characters and some technical terms. It said that the position of the stars and the sun was an important basis for the ancients to judge the harvest in the four seasons, because the yield of the land originally represented the livelihood of a county for a whole year. Therefore, clans would build their ancestral halls on the most auspicious sites according to astrology.
This matches the situation in Cilonggou before the strange events occurred. Unfortunately, the locals of Qingyang don't know that the celestial phenomena a hundred years ago don't match the current seasonal changes. Changes in time and the position of the sun could potentially turn a precious place into a human temple within a hundred years.
In this situation, if people continue to worship abandoned feng shui eyes, it will give perverse and cruel monsters the opportunity to grow into a real human form and infiltrate ordinary people.
However, the red-clothed demon is special, and this specialness is a secret for the time being. Based on the government's investigation, Bai Xiaosheng and his companions came up with a guess: they felt that they could wait for the murderer to come to them by taking Xiaomei with them, because the demon always revolved around Xiaomei, which meant that Xiaomei had some special conditions that would stimulate it to commit the crime.
“But I think they’ve all fallen into a misconception,” Jane Dieda thought. “Is it really a woman to so blatantly expose her weaknesses, like an immortal demon who has lived for a thousand years?”
As Jian Dieda was pondering, he saw a broadcast message on the game progress panel announcing a change in Nightmare Live score.
[The viewers in the current live stream have given you over 300,000 RMB worth of late-night hair as a reward.]
The murder mystery game was actually being streamed live all along? Jian Dieda's privileges were reduced after leaving the third world; his webcam and private messaging were also disabled. It seems his deep research and insights into the world of gods and demons earned him the approval of some of his 'good brothers'...
Then let him be bolder.
Is Xiaomei a smokescreen?
Was the demon's motive for the attack not her at all?
Congratulations on completing your first case clue chain!
[The first S-level hidden feature of the "Stay-Up-All-Night System" has been released!]
The virtual scenario's Qingyang Town team formation function is now available. In this round, you can summon a scriptwriter from modern society to participate in the game after any "player" dies.
[GM Permissions:]
You can hide the ID of the invited player.
[You'll have 5 minutes of "God's-eye view" per round.]
You can kick out any player to fill a vacancy in the team.
[Current vacancy slots: 0/4 (Monk, Nun, Fortune Teller, Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner), NPCs: Zhong Ding, Bai Xiaosheng, Furong Dan, Antique Zhang.]
How does the nine-player murder mystery game in the movie work? The original characters who died can be brought back into the game intact. In this way, the later players treat him as a character in the story, and the original protagonist is unaware that a group of modern people have entered the world.
Jane Dieda remembered that there were also living players in the second world, but he did not expect that he would develop such a reasonable multiplayer game rule in this instance.
"Hello, would you like me to activate the 'call for help' mode now?" the narrator asked him. Once the multiplayer scenario was activated, Jian Dieda would no longer be able to act recklessly, and his affair with Zhong Ding would be quickly brought back on track by the main storyline.
Jian Dieda said he would wait until dawn to check the prize pool.
He was afraid that if he asked for help today because he was so unlucky, he would have bad luck. After all, he was an African who never believed that he could pull a miracle with a single pull, let alone pull four times in such a terrible game.
Coincidentally, after he declined the narrator's offer, he noticed several reference books on the main bookshelf next to him. Among them, only one book had been read 50% of the time and was titled "How to Chat with a Guy You Like at First Sight".
Jane Dieda, “…”
He pretended to be looking down at a divination book. The narrator left at that moment.
Tongzi was charmed again, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he asked the aloof and arrogant man with a mischievous grin, "Do you need it, honey?"
Who said you can't include a romance storyline in a horror game?
After a two-minute silence, Jian Dieda whispered, "I want it."
If it's free, why not take it?
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Author's note: Yes, yes, Jianzi wants it!
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