Chapter 9 Scene 9 I... don't plan to go back. ...
"Are you new here?"
"Newcomer?"
"Yes, it's a stranger. If you just walked in here by mistake, I won't pursue it."
"Who are you?"
"Me? I am—"
"The bride arrives—"
"......ah."
"Why is the groom still hanging around outside? Come in quickly, everyone is getting impatient waiting."
"I don't......"
"The auspicious time has arrived—"
"Groom, hurry up, what are you waiting for at the door?"
"Can......"
"Bow to Heaven and Earth——"
"Two bows to the parents—"
"couple--"
“Ding-ling-ling——”
"It seems that the inspector is not alone." A woman's voice came from all directions.
"Now I have the upper hand over the inspector. If I tell 'it' all this, inspector, guess whether 'it' will be angry?"
The inspector covered his head, which was in unbearable pain due to hypnosis, and forced himself to calm down.
He looked at the woman standing in the moonlight, wearing a black and white diamond-patterned dress.
"Are you one of 'it' too?" The inspector remained calm on the surface, but his heart was filled with turmoil.
The woman stepped out of the moonlight and approached the inspector. She replied softly, "Yes, inspector, are you going to kill your colleagues?"
The inspector was frightened by her momentum and stepped back, but he was suddenly tripped by something.
He looked down and saw a pile of soil that had been buried into a small hill, with bones vaguely exposed inside.
The two fell into silence.
"You destroyed my things. How do you think I should compensate you, Inspector?" the woman spoke first.
The pile of earth beneath the inspector began to tremble, and snow-white bones floated out from it, surrounding him and trapping him in a small space, making him unable to move.
"The inspector is well aware of the power of the woman who is 'It's' right-hand man, but he will not give up the chance to 'live'. He decides to fight to the death."
[About to enter the story battle mode.]
[In the story battle mode, players only need to respond appropriately to enemy attacks. Compared with other battle modes, the difficulty of the story battle mode is basically zero.]
[Attention! Entering story battle mode!]
He Yuezhe opened her eyes and saw the woman in front of her controlling the bones to attack her.
If you want to avoid...
He Yuezhe quickly pounced to the left!
When she was inside the inspector's body, she observed that the woman seemed to be least skilled in manipulating the bones on his left side, so perhaps the only way to survive was to escape to the left!
With the inspector's body having rarely exercised for many years, He Yuezhe barely avoided the woman's first attack.
The bones brushed against her trouser legs, knocking away all the dirt that had accumulated inside the cabin.
"Hmph," the woman closed her eyes. When she opened them again, her pupils had turned into a pair of vertical cat eyes. "I will never forgive you, intruder."
At this time, He Yuezhe had just stood up and saw Bai Gu about to stab her again!
He Yuezhe summoned the dagger from his backpack and hid it under his sleeve. If he really couldn't avoid it, he could use it to block.
She quickly rolled backwards, avoiding most of the bones. Only a few were blocked by her arms, and she was not injured.
"I'm here to do something too!" the inspector shouted at the woman. "I'm so sorry..."
Before she could finish her words, the woman launched a new round of attack!
Control of the body had been transferred to the inspector himself. He froze in place, seemingly frightened, his pupils trembling slightly as he watched the white bones rushing towards him.
The dagger summoned by He Yuezhe had not been retracted in time, and now with the inspector's movement, it slid "plop" into the small mud puddle beside him.
"bite--"
The bones that were close at hand were bounced away by a dagger, and the remaining bones were all blocked by something unknown in front of them!
"You—" The woman rushed in front of him, pulled out a bone, kicked the man in front of her away, and pointed at the inspector's neck, "Are you crazy?!"
"Enough!" A baby's tender voice came from the sky, "Aling, this is my guest! How can you treat him like this!"
"I!... I'm sorry, I overstepped the line." The woman called "A Ling" bowed to the sky, then turned around and pulled up the inspector who was kneeling on the ground.
Could this... the leader he was looking for be this little baby? The inspector was puzzled.
"Your name is 'A Ling'?" The inspector shook his head, looked at the woman with cat-like eyes, and asked a different question.
"Hmm?" "A Ling" nodded, "But I don't like affectionate men, so you'd better not chat with me."
"Aling, bring him here quickly, I can't wait!" the baby shouted excitedly.
"A Ling" nodded slightly, signaling the inspector to follow her.
^
"A Ling" walked very slowly, as if she was taking a stroll.
The inspector followed her, and if he had known the way, he would have rushed ahead.
"Why did you come to see 'it'?" "A Ling" asked casually without turning around.
The inspector scratched his head and rushed forward to stand shoulder to shoulder with her: "Don't you know?"
"Why should I know?" "A Ling" was a little puzzled and took a few steps forward to shake him off. "Forget it, the Inspector is so famous. How can a junior like me talk to the Inspector?"
After that, no matter what the inspector said, "A Ling" no longer responded to him.
^
"Let me think, you are probably...here to investigate the 'strange noise in the valley'?" Sitting on the throne made of vines, the baby supported her wrinkled face and racked her brains to think.
"Yes." The inspector wiped the sweat from his forehead due to nervousness and answered respectfully.
The baby laughed when he heard this: "Did you find the answer you were looking for?"
"What do you think?" the inspector lowered his head. "Have I found it, or have I not?"
"Hahahahahahahahahahaha, interesting! They said you came to deliver something, where is the thing?" The baby ran down and circled around him.
The inspector handed her the backpack with both hands: "Here."
"Oh oh oh--!!!" The baby took the backpack, without opening it, and threw it into "A Ling's" arms. The two cooperated very well.
“Ding-ling-ling——”
That annoying ringtone again...
"A Ling, take him to the room."
The baby pulled the inspector up from the ground and said, "You stay here and play with me for a few days. When the time is right, I will send you out. Okay?"
"yes."
The baby walked away laughing.
The inspector followed "A Ling" into a room that had the same structure as the wooden house he lived in last night. However, apart from the wooden house, he had never seen any other similar structure.
"How novel." He asked "A Ling", "Did you also build the wooden house in the woods?"
"Wooden house?" "A Ling" didn't seem to know where it was. She shook her head, looked at the inspector strangely, and then left the room.
But, how, how could this happen...!?
^
Compared to the wooden house, this room looks like it was newly built.
There are clean and simple beds, tables and chairs with blunt angles, and a pool with pure "mountain spring water".
The inspector took the most comfortable bath he had taken in weeks, ate the most delicious lunch he had eaten in weeks brought by "A Ling", and slept the most soundly in weeks.
He slept until "A Ling" came to call him at dinner time.
The three people who had just met sat at a long table and ate a very sumptuous dinner that was prepared by someone unknown.
Baby asked the two of them to sit at the two ends of the long table, and even though they tried their best to refuse, she still arranged it this way.
The baby was so tiny, running back and forth between the two sides of the table, eating two completely different meals, with a happy smile on his face.
"A Ling, ah——"
The inspector saw "A Ling" smiling helplessly at the baby, picked up a handful of shredded potatoes for her with chopsticks, and fed it into her mouth skillfully.
"Aling is the best!" The baby ate with relish, hugged Aling's arm and rocked her.
“Ding-ling-ling——”
Well……
The three of them finished their meal in this way.
After dinner, the inspector was dragged by the baby, and together with "A Ling", the three of them ran into the depths of the forest and took a long walk.
The baby seemed to like the wild flowers on the roadside very much. All the inspector saw on the roadside were the stems of wild flowers.
So the inspector generously tied up the wild flowers in the clothes bag with a black rubber band and quietly pinned it into the baby's clothes.
"Oh my!" The baby was startled. "There's something on my neck!" She frantically felt around the back of her neck with her hands. "Aling, Aling! Help me see, what is that?"
“…”
"A Ling? Why don't you say anything?"
“…”
"Aling! If you keep throwing tantrums like this, I'll be mad!"
"......" "A Ling" finally spoke, "It's a bouquet of wild flowers."
"Ah?! Wild flowers?!" the baby screamed loudly.
She yanked her coat off, and the bouquet fell into the dirt with her movement!
The inspector saw that the baby's smooth arms were now covered with small red spots, and in the center there was even a little yellow-white color flowing! !
The baby fell to the ground in pain. She wanted to grab it with her hands, but was stopped by "A Ling".
"It's so itchy! It's so itchy!" the baby cried out in tears, "A Ling! I'm so itchy! I'm so itchy! It hurts!"
"Aling! Aling! Am I going to die? Aling!"
The baby hugged the squatting "A Ling" and said, "A Ling! A Ling! I don't want to die! I don't want to die!"
^
“…”
“…”
"......Why did you do that?" "A Ling" supported her forehead, sat beside the baby's bed, and questioned the inspector standing beside her.
The inspector was speechless.
He knew that he had hurt her, no, everyone knew that he had hurt her.
"I'm sorry..." The inspector looked at the baby on the bed, whose breathing was deep and shallow. Her body was covered with red swellings.
"......sorry?"
"What's the use of being sorry?"
"Just say it! What's the use of saying sorry!!"
"You're always like this! You're always like this! You know nothing and you still think you're a hero!!"
"Why are you doing this again?!"
"Haven't you hurt enough people?!"
"I......"
I didn't. I really know I was wrong. I won't do this again. I promise. I don't want to be like this. I deserve to die. I'm not a hero. I don't want to be a hero. I won't be a hero. Can you please forgive me? ...
"Stop talking! Go away!"
The rest of the words were drowned out by the crying ending of "A Ling".
The inspector turned and left in silence.
^
"It's been three days since that incident."
"Today is the day I set out to return to the 'village'."
"These past few days have been so painful."
"The Inspector has a lot on his mind and a lot to say, but no one's listening. Everyone..."
“Ding-ling-ling——”
Why……
“They’re all dead.”
The inspector looked at the hall covered in blood.
The baby was held by "A Ling" and sat on a throne made of vines. Both of their bodies were pierced by a black dagger, but their faces were filled with smiles.
How strange, how strange, how strange.
The inspector's eyes were blank, everything in front of him seemed fake, and warm scenes from the past kept flashing back.
The inspector fell to the ground, unable to hold on. He felt the small raised dots next to the door, but had no idea what they meant.
I can’t think about that anymore.
Run away!
Run away quickly.
Run away...
He said this to himself.
"Are you leaving? Not going to play with me for a while?"
The baby's voice came from the throne.
The inspector shook his head.
"Inspector, why are you in such a hurry to go back? Do you know everything you want to know? Inspector, why don't you answer me? I don't really like men who pretend to be deep."
"A Ling"'s voice came from beside the throne.
The inspector nodded again.
"Inspector! You're here... I'm so scared. I don't even dare to walk in the cave alone. Shall we go back?"
My younger brother's voice came from the woods.
The inspector still shook his head.
Where are you going?
Are you going to be alone again?
Aren't you going back?
the inspector asked himself.
I'm going to a "safe" place.
I will have a lot of companions.
I... don't plan to go back.
The inspector replied.
He walked resolutely and incompletely into the depths of the woods without looking back.
He took out a bottle of "hemostatic agent" from his pocket, poured it over him from head to toe, and swallowed it in one gulp.
In his increasingly blurred vision, he saw his past, happy self, wearing ordinary clothes, doing ordinary work, and living an ordinary life.
The drink that he drank in one gulp from his friend looked exactly like the bottle of hemostatic agent.
“…I’m sorry.” said the friend.
"...I'm sorry...what's the use..."
"The inspector hasn't seen all he wanted yet, but unfortunately, he's already fallen, as always."
[Congratulations on completing the dungeon: The Sound of the Valley Normal Ending: "Sorry"! The ending has been recorded!]
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