Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Yinhuai Village 3
Player Mo Fei was walking in Yinhuai Village. He and Plaid Shirt were in a group. After entering the village, they found that Yinhuai Village covered a large area. If the seven players were to strictly divide into three or four teams, they probably wouldn't be able to visit many houses to inquire.
Murphy and Plaid Shirt simply separated. After all, they had just entered the dungeon. According to the current dungeon requirements, this was most likely a strange dungeon that required decryption and exploration.
The village ritual mentioned in the dungeon requirements is probably the ultimate move of this dungeon.
Moreover, the copy requires them to check in two attractions every day. They only have one afternoon now. There will be tour guides tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so checking in two attractions each should not be a problem. However, they have to rely on themselves this afternoon.
According to a regular tour group, it is a bit strange to gather at the destination on the first day and then have free time in the afternoon, but this is a dungeon, so strangeness is normal.
Mo Fei saw the message Zhang Wei sent in the group. The village store should obviously not be a special "tourist attraction".
"Ding ding——" The phone vibrated and Murphy immediately read the message.
It's a travel group, and a player has posted a new message.
【Yinhuai Village 5.15-5.17 Group (9)】
[Liu Yanran]: I successfully checked in at a tourist attraction [Yinhuai Village Ancient Theater]. Come and have a look too.
[Liu Yanran]: I successfully checked in at a tourist attraction [Yinhuai Village Yiwan Teahouse]. You guys should come and have a look too.
Mo Fei's eyes were fixed on Liu Yanran. He remembered that she was the female player who sat in the same row by the window with him in the car.
She also acted alone, and she had already found two attractions! It seems that as long as you check in, the copy will be automatically sent out in this group!
Murphy clicked on the location and walked towards the ancient stage, thinking as he walked. When any player checked in at a scenic spot, the dungeon would publish the location after completion. This also meant that in this dungeon, as long as this task was completed, one would not be able to conceal their whereabouts from other players.
Is the copy a disguised way of asking all players to work together?
[Liu Yanran]: If you want to check in, just come here, no need to rush.
Seeing this message, Mo Fei secretly gave it a thumbs up. Liu Yanran was obviously a veteran. While others were still looking for clues, she had already taken the initiative to find two scenic spots and share them. In this way, with two known scenic spots as a basis, other players would not be worried about not completing today's task.
He was walking forward while looking at his phone when he suddenly heard a voice calling out from beside him.
"Um, are you a tourist visiting the village? Are you lost?"
Did the NPC initiate the conversation?
Murphy turned around and saw a timid boy carrying a large schoolbag and pushing a suitcase towards the village.
"Yes, I'm a tourist here. I want to visit the attractions in the village, but I don't know much about them."
"Little brother, are you from this village? You just got out of school." Murphy scratched his head and looked distressed.
"Ah, I'm from the village. This is an annual ceremony. No matter how far away the villagers are, they have to rush back. I just came back from the village."
"Big brother, you also want to attend the ceremony, right?"
It’s an annual ceremony, and everyone in the village has come back!
Murphy silently wrote down the unknown information he obtained from the young man.
Is it a sacrificial ceremony, worship of gods, or a festival?
What is the focus of the ceremony?
Murphy continued speaking along with the boy's words: "Yes, our tour group project does include participating in the ceremony, but we don't know the details."
"Can you tell me about it?"
The young man smiled with his white teeth, "It's nothing, but since your tour group has plans, it would be more surprising if we wait until the time comes to reveal it."
"Brother, didn't you say you wanted to go to a scenic spot? If you follow me, we live in the back village. There's Huaiquan there. It's our mountain spring water, and it's delicious. If you go up the mountain along the road, the scenery is also beautiful."
The young man avoided the main point and obviously had no intention of introducing the ceremony to Murphy. He sighed in his heart, but was not discouraged.
"Okay, I'll go with you. Why aren't your parents here to pick you up?"
"This suitcase is quite heavy, let me carry it for you." Murphy was about to continue asking questions.
"No, no." The boy refused, but at this moment Murphy had already grabbed the suitcase, so he no longer refused.
"It's time for the ceremony, the Moon-Pagoda Worship. The adults are all busy. I just got back, so I have to help when I get home. It will be easier for the kids who don't have to go to school."
【Worship the Moon Sophora japonica】
Murphy's eyes flickered. It was another noun. As expected, this was the so-called "ritual", worshiping Yuehuai.
"You're so busy, so won't we tourists cause trouble for you?" Murphy joked.
"No, no, the more guests come, the better."
"Your home is at the back of the village. Do you think that mountain at the back is some kind of tourist attraction?" Murphy asked questions non-stop as he followed the young man, like a curious baby.
On the other side, other players are also making their own efforts.
Teacher He, who was wearing a black shirt, was almost soaked through. He was sitting on a small stool and gasping for breath.
Even for veteran players who have experienced multiple dungeons, being treated like a donkey pulling a mill for half an hour is hard enough for anyone, let alone someone who has never done this kind of work before.
"Oh, young man, how can you be so economical!"
"Ma'am, I just said something casually, and you actually did it!"
"Oh my, if you get too tired, what will happen to me, an old lady?"
Facing the NPC's remarks, Teacher He still kept a smile on his face: "It's okay, Auntie. I am at least middle-aged and can still do physical work. You are so old and exhausted. What can you do?"
"Respecting the elderly and loving the young has always been a traditional virtue."
"Can you tell me now why there are so many locust trees in the village?"
The gray-haired old lady turned around and went back into the house. "You must be exhausted. I'll pour you a bowl of tofu pudding and talk to you slowly."
"After all this work, drinking some brown sugar tofu pudding is wonderful! I wouldn't give it to anyone else."
Teacher He didn't have the chance to refuse. A bowl of snow-white tofu pudding was handed to He Zimei, with a layer of sticky reddish-brown liquid poured on top.
Is this brown sugar? Looking at the suspicious liquid on it, Teacher He hesitated, but took it anyway, fearing that it would upset the old lady in front of him. If she got excited and became weird, it would be bad.
"Drink, drink." The old lady raised her eyelids and looked at Teacher He with a loving face, as if she was looking at her own child.
Stared at by that look, Teacher He could only take a small lick slowly.
Hmm? Sweet, with a bean aroma, it's really brown sugar tofu pudding! It's not my imagination! It's not an illusion! Is this dungeon so food-friendly yet?
"Hey, you city kids, can we, the old country men and women, really harm you?"
"Like my son, when he was little he could eat anything that was pig food, but when he grew up he came back and started to pick and choose."
Seeing that the old lady from the tofu shop was about to go off topic again, Teacher He quickly changed the subject, "He's grown up, and his tastes may have changed. Why don't you tell me some stories about the village?"
Seeing Teacher He guzzling tofu pudding, the old lady was satisfied: "Then I will tell you a story. A long time ago, our village was a small village..."
As the old lady started to speak, Teacher He interrupted: "Auntie, how long is a long time ago? Decades or hundreds of years?"
The old lady glared at him. "This has been passed down from generation to generation. How would I know how many years it has been? Isn't this how the story always begins? You really are a teacher, you're so picky!"
Teacher He immediately shut up and gestured for the old lady to continue: "Take our village as an example. It is located in the mountains and is very secluded..." The old lady cleared her throat and began to tell the story.
Teacher He closed his eyes and did not correct the old lady's choice of words.
...
The two female players, baby-faced and pink-haired, went exploring together. After seeing the information about tourist attractions posted by Liu Yanran in the group, they were both in awe.
"I thought Sister Liu was a solitary person, but it turns out she found some scenic spots and shared them with us," said the baby-faced girl with emotion.
"Maybe she's used to being a lone ranger in the dungeon. If I go with her, it might slow down my speed." said the pink-haired girl.
"They are all heading towards the village, how about we two take a walk outside?" The pink-haired girl took the initiative to suggest.
She had a nose ring and earrings and ear bone studs in her ears. Her whole outfit looked exaggerated and rebellious, but she was very communicative when communicating with the baby-faced girl.
"Sure." The baby-faced man did not refuse.
"I thought so too. I didn't expect that we would go together. I remember there was a stone tablet and a forest at the entrance to the village. I wonder if it can be considered a tourist attraction."
They entered the village very quickly because they took a car, but now they walked out of the village for about twenty minutes before they saw the forest they had come from.
There is only one main road leading into the village, so the two players don't have to worry about getting lost. However, just in case, Baby Face made marks along the way.
The two walked to the right. The locust trees were tall and connected to form a forest. As they walked, the pink-haired girl suddenly pointed.
"That looks like a notice board."
【Welcoming guests in the locust tree forest, Yinhuai Village】
The baby-faced man took out his cell phone and captured the sign and the surrounding locust trees in the frame.
The next second, the copy prompt appeared.
"Player Tian Tian completed the check-in at the Welcoming Huailin Forest. Would you like to share the check-in spots (1/2) with the group members?"
She silently said "share" in her mind, and saw that her copy of the phone automatically sent a message to the group.
[Tian Tian]: I successfully checked in at a scenic spot [Yinhuai Village Welcoming Sophora japonica Forest]. You guys should come and have a look too.
"I see." Baby-faced Tian Tian understood at this moment and immediately asked the pink-haired girl to check in as well.
The two of them successfully posted the same check-in photos of the scenic spots in the group one after the other and expressed their feelings.
Liu Yanran, who was the first to find the teahouse and the ancient theater, did not have to share them with the team members, but this young lady's generous sharing set a good example, and the attractions that other players could find were also posted.
"Let's go a little further and see if that stone tablet is okay." said Xiang Tianyi with pink hair.
The two continued walking for about seven or eight minutes and finally found the large stone tablet at the entrance of the village. However, before they could walk over, the villagers at the stone tablet started shouting.
"You are new tourists, right? Why are you here at the village entrance?"
The baby-faced girl and the pink-haired girl looked at each other in bewilderment. At this moment, they saw that about ten meters in front of the stone tablet, several villagers were unloading things from a medium-sized van. They were setting up isolation zones and various roadblocks!
"Ah, we want to come and see this stone tablet in the village and take some pictures." The baby-faced man replied.
"Uncle, what are you doing?"
"We're setting up a quarantine zone. The village ceremony is about to begin. Starting tonight, until the ceremony is over, no one can enter or leave the village."
The two players' expressions froze. Was this... the dungeon closed? From now on, until the conclusion of that unknown ceremony tomorrow, Yinhuai Village would be a completely closed-off area, cut off from the outside world!
This matter is so important!
In detective novels, the Snowstorm Manor mode, which is cut off from the outside world, is the beginning of death!
"No wonder Sister Liu discovered that the tour group's car was missing and the driver was gone too." The pink-haired girl murmured at this moment.
The two players looked at each other and asked, "Go back?"
"Let's try to check in at a tourist attraction first. Calm down. We can't lose our composure." The pink-haired girl spoke.
They concealed their fear, took out their mobile phones to take pictures of the stone tablet of [Yinhuai Village], successfully completed the second check-in of the day and shared it in the group.
The name of this stone tablet is [Ancient Village Tablet], but at this moment the two of them just glanced at the prompt and chose to share. Then, Baby Face tagged the tour guide in the group.
[Tian Tian]: Hello, @Tour Guide Luo Qing, we are at the entrance of the village. The villagers told us that no one is allowed to enter or leave the village before the ceremony ends tomorrow night.
The tour guide responded quickly and sent me the message immediately.
Tour Guide Luo Qing: Yes. This is a village custom, but it only lasts until the ceremony is over tomorrow night. Our tour departs a day later, and normally, guests will stay two nights. Don't worry, it won't interfere with our group's schedule. [grin.jpg]
"Village customs." Baby-faced Tian Tian stared at the words the tour guide replied.
You know, the copy's prompt says—
[While touring the village, please observe local customs and participate in all village rituals.]
"That means we have to comply. This is a mandatory requirement of the copy." The pink-haired man said in a cold tone.
Players who saw the conversation in the group at the same time almost all started swearing.
"What the hell?"
"Oh my god, it's going to cost me my life!"
"This is simply, what the hell is the beginning of the collapse of the world!"
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