Chapter 24: Suspicious Konjac Village
Chu Xihen guessed that the [Paper Umbrella] must have some hidden function and would not be as useless as described on the card. However, he was pulled into the dungeon before he had the chance to experiment.
But he didn't expect that [a paper umbrella] could actually block the scorching sun!
After exchanging basic information with Ling Ji, Chu Xihen thought that the other party would finally keep quiet for a while, but he didn't expect that he would bring the topic back to the dungeon mission.
"Brother Fox, what do you think about the dungeon mission?" Chu Xihen did not reveal his name. Ling Ji called him that because he saw he was wearing a fox mask.
Chu Xihen rolled his eyes in response to the greeting, "I looked up."
Ling Ji: “…”
He was stunned for a moment, "I'm asking you if you have any clues?"
"We haven't even entered the village yet, what clues can we have?" Chu Xihen said.
Although he really did have it, he was just too lazy to say it.
"I've made a preliminary analysis. Do you want to listen to it?" Ling Ji had already sensed Chu Xihen's impatience.
"I don't want to." Chu Xihen refused bluntly.
Ling Ji just swallowed back all the words in his heart.
"This is our first meeting, it's not good for you to be so direct, right?" Ling Ji suggested tactfully.
Chu Xihen replied, "This is our first meeting, it's not good for you to talk so much, right?"
"It seems so." Ling Ji nodded in agreement.
During the rest of the journey, Ling Ji finally shut up and stopped talking, leaving Chu Xihen a lot more relaxed.
When they arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw the two girls who had arrived earlier talking to an uncle who was returning home from work.
There was a sign behind the uncle with three words written crookedly on it: Konjac Village.
Seeing that the name of the village was related to the mission, Ling Ji couldn't help but whisper to Chu Xihen, "They call it Konjac Village, and our mission is to get rid of the poisonous konjac. Could it be that the konjac they planted has mutated?"
After all, we came from the end of the world, so it is normal for our thinking to be a little advanced.
"Probably." Chu Xihen said.
As they walked forward, they heard the man carrying the hoe say angrily, "There's nothing fun in our village. Go somewhere else to play!"
"This uncle thinks we are here for tourism." Ling Ji whispered to Chu Xihen.
Chu Xihen said nothing.
He Jia in front smiled and explained: "Uncle, please forgive us. We are not here for fun. We just happened to get lost when we got here. It's getting dark now. Can you let us stay in the village for a night?"
Their mission is to help the villagers get rid of the poisonous konjac. They don't have any information yet, so they must go into the village to investigate first.
"No, our village does not welcome outsiders." The uncle said firmly.
Ling Ji then said to Chu Xihen, "Based on the games I've played before, this NPC won't let us enter the village because we haven't completed the prerequisite quest yet."
"Is there any clue by the river that we didn't find just now?" Ling Ji touched his chin and frowned as he thought.
Chu Xihen looked at him speechlessly.
This uncle simply doesn't want them to go into the village and die!
"How about we go back to the river and look for clues?" Ling Ji said to the two girls in front.
Seeing the uncle's firm attitude, the two girls believed Ling Ji's words. When they were about to turn around, several people came out of the village, led by an old man with white hair and beard.
"Erniu, what are you doing? Are you being disrespectful to the guests again?" The old man had a sharp-nosed and monkey-faced look on his face. After saying this, he pushed the uncle, whom he called Erniu, aside and then greeted the few people with a smile.
"Are you guests here for tourism? Please come in. The scenery in our Konjac Village is beautiful, and there are homestays for you to stay in." Compared with Erniu, the village chief was a little too enthusiastic.
This made the two girls and Ling Ji feel nervous.
"Should we go in?" He Jia turned around and asked Chu Xihen and Ling Ji what they thought.
The village chief interrupted, "Now that we are here, we must go in and take a look. Don't hesitate, come in!"
The other three did not dare to move, but Chu Xihen strode into the village. When he passed by the village chief, he kindly "reminded" him, "One of our companions fell asleep by the river. Please take someone to carry him back."
"Asleep?" The village chief smiled immediately. "Falling asleep is good. I'll have someone carry it. You find a few people to go with me to the river, and you take a few guests to the B&B to check in."
"Do I have to pay to stay in a B&B? I don't have any money on me, do you have any?" Ling Ji asked others.
The two girls shook their heads. It’s the end of the world outside, who would still carry money?
However, Ling Ji quickly responded, "By the way, have you checked your own portable mall? I guess the tokens in the game should be points, not RMB."
"I have seen it, but we don't have any points now." He Jia was a little worried.
They have just entered the dungeon and will only get points after they complete the dungeon.
The villagers leading the way replied, "You are a guest, we don't charge you for accommodation."
Yes, no accommodation fee, only life, Chu Xihen answered in his heart.
Hearing that the villagers said they would not charge money, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief. Then the chatterbox Lingji asked again: "Why do you call it Konjac Village? Are there a lot of konjac in your village?"
But they didn't see any konjac on the roadside along the way.
The villager was a little unhappy when he heard him ask this, "Why are you asking this? We don't grow konjac in our village."
This is strange. If there is no konjac, why is it called Konjac Village?
With such doubts in mind, the three ignorant newcomers and Chu Xihen were taken to a homestay by the villagers.
"This B&B looks great!" He Jia said excitedly after the group took a tour.
Especially after struggling for a few days in the apocalypse, they almost cried when they saw such good accommodation conditions.
The villager brought them there and left, saying before leaving that he would bring them dinner later.
Chu Xihen decided to make the best of it and immediately lay down on the sofa in the hall.
Ling Ji groped his way to the door of the B&B and looked outside. Only after he made sure that the villager had really left did he return to the house.
"It's so strange. The houses in the village look very shabby, but this B&B is so new, as if it was just renovated not long ago." Ling Ji felt that there was something suspicious about this village.
"Yes, and the villager just now didn't let us ask about konjac. Our mission is to help them eliminate the poisonous konjac!" He Jia continued Ling Ji's words.
Meng Jiayi then joined the discussion. The three of them talked for a long time before they realized that another teammate was paddling the water nearby. They all looked at Chu Xihen, only to see that his eyes were tightly closed under the mask, and he had obviously fallen asleep.
"He doesn't really think he's here for tourism, does he?" Ling's face was full of disbelief.
He Jia then raised another question, "Didn't the masked man ask the village chief to carry that wretched man? Why hasn't he brought him here in such a long time?"