Chapter 3: Ghost Town (Part 2)



The sound outside the door undoubtedly caused considerable psychological pressure on the players.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew, and the wooden door of the blacksmith shop began to creak. The person who was talking outside the door seemed to have not left yet. He was standing there, separated by a not very thick door. Heichuan and the other players only felt that they were staring at that person.

Seeing that the other players did not move, and the aura outside the door was getting heavier, if she did not open the door, it would cause more trouble. Li Rushi took a step forward and pushed open the shaky door. The moment she moved, the player codenamed Parker's shoulders trembled slightly, as if he wanted to stop Li Rushi, but Li Rushi moved quickly, and his hand only touched the corner of Li Rushi's clothes.

Seeing Li Rushi's indifferent expression, the audience in Heichuan's live broadcast room were also shocked.

{Oh my god, this new player is really stubborn! He dares to open the door without knowing whether it is a human or a ghost outside.}

{A rookie is a rookie after all, and doesn't understand the cruelty of NPCs.}

{If you see something when you open the door, don’t let this poor little thing get scared, haha!}

{What the above person said is right, haha, I can't wait to see him get scared! }

Li. Poor. Ru took down the bolt calmly. Originally, the bolt was hung outside the door, but the players were planning to discuss the plot and make plans first. They were afraid that something would suddenly enter the house and they would not be able to deal with it, so they locked the door from the inside at the moment of their turn. The sound of removing the bolt was very slight. Before Li Ru pushed the door, the wooden door opened a small gap without wind. Almost the next moment, a dark hand grabbed the door frame.

The fingers on that hand were shorter than those of normal humans, and the fingertips were dark purple, and even in such dim light, they were extremely sharp. Li Rushi frowned slightly. There were corpse spots on this hand, and it looked like he had been dead for a long time. The nails were so sharp, and there was corpse poison on them. He was a fierce ghost, and he was not easy to deal with.

However, the man stopped moving after he put his hand in. Li Rushi looked at its palm, as if it was hiding something. She stretched out her hand to touch it, but before her hand touched its palm, it was grabbed. The dark purple and blue-lined palm wrapped around the young man's hand, and the audience in the live broadcast room began to get excited.

{So cool, he dared to catch it without knowing what it is}

{I bet his hand will be melted or broken in less than ten seconds}

{I bet five seconds of silence for him. It's a pity that a certain country is going to lose another player. Kurokawa is still cautious. In fact, in this kind of copy, it is most important to protect yourself.}

{Although I don't agree with this brother's approach, he is indeed quite courageous. He must be a player from Mei Country.}

{His code name is also weird. He doesn't seem like a player from a Western country. He should be from Huaguo Yingguo, or maybe Hanguo?}

Unexpectedly, there was nothing wrong with Li Rushi's hand, not even a scratch on the skin, and the person on the other side was obviously surprised. Taking advantage of the moment when the person on the other side was distracted, Li Rushi used some strength to pick out the thing hidden in his palm, and then quickly withdrew his hand.

Fortunately, the person outside the door didn't seem to intend to pursue the matter. It snorted a few times and slowly took its hand off the door frame. Li Rushi noticed that its hand was in an unnatural arc when it hung down.

Well, it seems that his hand was broken before he died.

After getting what he wanted, Li Rushi returned to Heichuan and the others and showed the bills in his hand. They looked like food coupons, dark yellow in color, seven in total, and some of them even had some dark red bloodstains on them. There were some unknown pictures drawn on the front, with Yangjia Town written on it, and the words "Rice Ticket" were written on the back. The strokes were crooked, and it looked more like they were drawn casually.

Everyone gathered around to look at the meal tickets. Yingxue counted them carefully, "Why are there seven? There are obviously six of us now..." Kurokawa said nonchalantly, "Maybe they gave too many. As long as they don't give too few, it will be fine. Let's go to the place where the meals are stored. We haven't seen other townspeople yet."

Other players had the same idea. Pug and Yingxue saw what Li Rushi had just done and thought she was brave, so they chatted with her. They found that Li Rushi did not reject them and spoke in a friendly manner. They also felt that she was calm and reliable. Yingxue was a girl. It was her first time to enter the game to play a dungeon. She was not very brave. When she saw such a brave and steady person, she wanted to stick to her.

Li Rushi was born with an excellent memory and could read ten lines at a glance. She understood everything the moment she got the meal ticket, so she did not participate in the discussion at this moment. She glanced lightly at Yingxue who was very close to her. There was a sense of trust in the other's eyes. Forget it, she is a girl, so let's get closer.

She looked at her live broadcast room, and it had exceeded 20 people. Some praised her for being brave, some laughed at her for being reckless, and some even discussed her nationality. She didn't quite understand what these viewers were talking about, and Yingxue was very perceptive and explained it to her.

To put it simply, the country of players who have completed all the levels can obtain a lot of resources, so some countries actually strongly support their people to enter the game. After all, there is a constant supply of people, and as long as one person successfully completes the game, the others who died in the game can also be resurrected.

Obviously, there are many countries that have this idea. Under this argument, a competitive relationship is naturally formed between countries. When players meet in a dungeon, they will of course be kinder to players from friendly countries, but if they are in a competitive relationship, they will almost be like water and fire.

There are players from various countries and of course there are audiences from various countries. There are many people who are curious about the game but don’t dare to actually play it, so they choose to watch the live broadcast in spectator mode. In this way, they are just spectators instead of players. They will not be in danger of their lives and can also support their favorite players.

However, spoilers are not allowed for the copy content, so the audience can only watch it, not record the screen, and cannot bring up the plot content during discussions, otherwise they will be blocked.

Li Rushi nodded. If that was the case, then the audience would be willing to watch her, which would be beneficial to her.

After all, if you want to establish a sect, you have to choose not only the land, but also qualified disciples. If there are players who like metaphysics because of her live broadcast, then she can rebuild Tianyi Sect more quickly. Li Ru is very pleased. Her lifelong wish is to promote metaphysics and rebuild the sect. Now she finally sees some hope.

It seems that she can interact more with the audience in the future, and explain more metaphysical knowledge. However, there is one thing she needs to explain first.

So the audience in the live broadcast room saw the young man with a calm face saying: "No need to guess, I am not from Ying Country or Han Country, I am a pure Chinese player, guaranteed to be genuine."

{This guy is really good. There are so few Chinese players now, and they are not well-received, but he actually said it like this. He is not sloppy at all.}

{In fact, you can tell from the code name, only China has such mysterious details, Chinese players are also very good, come on, anchor}

{Am I the only one who thinks his words are interesting? He looks pretty good too.}

{Wake up, the person above, this is the appearance of the character in the dungeon, okay? This is not the appearance of the anchor himself, maybe he is a big ugly bastard! }

In the Tianyi Sect of another time and space, almost everyone knows that the leader Li Xuanzhi loves face the most. If someone says that she is incompetent, she will not care. But if someone says that she is ugly and has a vulgar temperament, she will definitely be hunted down by the disciples of Tianyi Sect until she changes her mind.

What's more, Li Rushi is a tall and beautiful woman. This group of people are just jealous. When she was not famous, people said that she was not well-trained and could not take on big responsibilities. When she showed her abilities, she was rumored to be ugly and cruel because she seldom appeared in public. Who can tolerate this?

When she heard someone slandering her appearance, Li Rushi remained calm and did not seem angry. Instead, she said, "Thank you for your attention. However, I was born with a handsome appearance, and I am sorry to disappoint you."

The atmosphere in the live broadcast room suddenly became much more lively. The anchor had a very good eloquence. Many players were busy brushing dungeons or trembling with fear. Few could argue with others while brushing dungeons. Therefore, after a while, the number of people in Li Rushi's live broadcast room exceeded 100.

After playing around for a while, Kurokawa, Momo and the others had already figured out what to do. They planned to go out and find the place where the food was served, contact other townspeople, and learn some other information.

Li Rushi certainly thought so, so the group walked out of the blacksmith shop cautiously. However, they didn't know where the place was, nor did they know the direction. The players looked at each other, and no one could come up with a plan. Li Rushi had a keen sense of smell. She sniffed a few times and found an indescribable smell in the east, which was hard to tell whether it was fragrant or smelly.

She turned her head and looked at Heichuan: "Let's go east." There were only two players present who had dungeon experience, but neither of them was very brave. Now that there was someone willing to lead, Heichuan was of course happy to let her be a meat shield. Anyway, it wasn't him who rushed forward, so he wouldn't stop Xuanzhi if he wanted to take the lead. Seeing that no one had any objections, Li Rushi walked in front and led the other players to the east.

Not long after we walked, we saw smoke rising from cooking fires, and gradually, we saw people coming. More and more townspeople gathered in front of us. In front of us was a high platform, and underneath were many seats, covered with dust, which didn't look like it was often occupied. Most of the townspeople were on one side, some were cleaning the meat, some were boiling water for soup, and some were putting meatballs into the frying pan.

Li Rushi's eyes are special. They can distinguish between humans, ghosts, demons, and monsters. They can also tell the fate of the other party, whether it is good or bad. Fortune-telling is her specialty, and she is very familiar with it. With just a quick glance, it is not difficult to see that the movements of these townspeople are more or less stiff, wrapped very tightly, and occasionally they raise their hands to reveal a little skin. If you are more careful, you can find that there are some corpse spots on their skin, some of which have dark red and blue lines. Their hands are also like the person who just knocked on the door, with sharp nails.

As if they had seen them coming, some of the townspeople had already called out to them: "Ah Le, Qing Wen, come and sit down, the meal will be served soon."

Yingxue looked at the bones exposed in the fire, which were so thin and long that they didn't look like animal bones. Then she looked at those people, who seemed to be inviting her with good intentions, but in fact, their eyes were already glowing with greed, and sticky saliva was flowing from their mouths...

This is not a townsman, this is clearly a man-eating evil ghost!

Yingxue didn't dare to look the townspeople in the eye again. She quietly grabbed the corner of Li Rushi's clothes and subconsciously looked at this calm and reliable elder brother: "Xuanzhi, why do I feel that these townspeople are so strange? They...they..."

Li Rushi knew what she wanted to say and shook her head gently. Yingxue understood instantly that this was also a level in the dungeon mission. Even if she knew that the townspeople had bad intentions, she had to go and see what was going on. She kept silent, but her face turned pale. She hid timidly beside Li Rushi and dared not look at the banquet in front of her.

Seeing that they couldn't get them to move, the townspeople tried harder: "Come on... come on... come and eat. You haven't eaten for several days. Aren't you hungry? Come on, sit down, sit down..."

Li Rushi looked calm and even responded, "I'll be right there." She grabbed Sakurayuki's wrist, nodded to Kurokawa and the others, and walked towards the bustling meat-cooking scene.

Seeing plates of meat being served, steamed, boiled, stewed, fried, and cooked in all kinds of ways, a large table was set up. Li Rushi sat down slowly, picked up a piece of meat under the eager eyes of the townspeople, and when it was about to reach his mouth, he slowly put it down.

"There's not much meat today, so let the elders eat first. I'm a grown man, so it's okay for me to go hungry for two meals." Li Rushi smiled and scratched his head, looking like a simple boy. Heichuan didn't have so many concerns. Seeing the townspeople eating, he felt hungry too. It was only the first day, and there shouldn't be any poisonous food in the dungeon, so he could eat without worry. So he and Chenmo started eating.

The townspeople didn't seem to care who ate or didn't eat, they just tried to persuade Yingxue a few more times, and when Yingxue shook her head, they had to give up. When the townspeople saw them start eating, they stopped persuading them and started to enjoy the food with relish. Li Rushi gave Parker a look, and Parker was not stupid, so he understood immediately and only picked some vegetarian dishes to eat. Yingxue did the same.

But the player named Kerry was a little different. From the time they met until now, he rarely spoke, and had no look or expression. He didn't pick up his chopsticks at this moment, but just looked at the villagers silently.

He is a smart man. Li Rushi picked up a piece of cucumber-like vegetable and put it under his nose to smell it. Forget it, the vegetable fried with that kind of oil is too smelly, so he decided not to eat it.

After eating and drinking, the townspeople patted their stomachs and chatted. The players who wanted to find out the news naturally did not leave. Through the townspeople's chat, they learned that Yangjia Town was located between the east and west of the river, a place that must be fought for by military strategists. Almost all the young and strong people in the tribe were taken away by the conscripted army, leaving only some old, weak, women and children here. A few days ago, there was a disaster in the west of the river, and the famine spread to the town, killing many cattle and sheep, and the stock of the townspeople was almost robbed by the army.

Kurokawa asked in confusion: "If there is no food, then where did the meat we ate just now come from?"

A town resident with thick eyebrows and big eyes said with a smile: "The brothers who leave will bring food to the town."

Li Rushi just listened quietly without saying a word. After a while, the sky darkened and torches were lit in the town. The townspeople also stood up, saying that they were going to change clothes and then perform a ritual to worship the gods and grant them more food.

The player named Silent wanted to join in the fun, but was stopped by Parker: "Do you think we are just shopping? Why are you still going along? You may die in a moment." Silent was not convinced, but he knew he was a bit reckless. An unnatural look flashed across his face, and he whispered: "Why didn't you say anything when Xuanzhi went to open the door? I just said I was going to take a look, but he kept nagging me..."

Yingxue, who had already transformed into Li Rushi's little fangirl, of course didn't want to hear Chen Mo say that, and immediately retorted: "Your name is Chen Mo, but you are so talkative, why not change your name to Duo Qiao!"

Mo Chen didn't expect that a little girl would dare to speak like that. He immediately stood up and glared at her: "What did you say?"

Li Rushi also stood up. Her character grid was very high, much taller than Momo. Seeing Li Rushi standing up, Momo didn't dare to care about anything anymore. After all, he still had to rely on her to continue to clear the dungeon.

Amid the noise, no one noticed that the fire beside the platform had gone out. As the sound of gongs and drums grew louder, townspeople wearing strange masks jumped onto the platform and began the town's ceremony of summoning the gods.


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