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Guan Yingying looked around carefully, and after making sure there were no traces of hunters, she ran out cautiously.
She was petite and walked briskly. Although she didn't run very hard, she reached a speed comparable to that of an adult male.
In order to ensure that he could keep up with her at all times, the cameraman following behind her did not practice running like other cameramen, but chose roller skates.
She "flew" across the street like a bird and came to a dilapidated courtyard.
Now, there are less than 20 players alive. Except for the two players who chose to go to the Zhu family's old house, half of the players chose to hide aside and watch the situation temporarily, while the other half of the players, like her, went straight to the Mei family courtyard.
However, when Guan Yingying arrived at the mission location, the players who chose to do the mission could not even complete half the distance.
Guan Yingying looked at the map in her hand and murmured, "Is this the Mei family courtyard?"
She knocked on the closed door and walked in.
The house was silent, as if it had just been ransacked, with the cupboard doors wide open and all the things swept away like a swarm of locusts, leaving only a few pieces of men's clothes and a little food to fill their stomachs.
"Young Master Mei? Are you here?" Guan Yingying tried to shout.
There were noises coming from behind the innermost door.
"Is it here?" Guan Yingying walked in and pushed open the half-open door.
A young man of about seventeen or eighteen years old had his hands tied tightly and was struggling desperately.
When he saw Guan Yingying coming in, his eyes lit up, and his covered mouth made a "woohoo" sound for help.
"Mei, the young master of the Mei family?" Guan Yingying tried to call out.
The young man suddenly shouted even louder.
What on earth had happened to this young master? Why was he tied up at home?
Guan Yingying was puzzled and hurried forward to take the cloth bag out of the mouth of the young master of the Mei family.
The blocked mouth was finally released, the young master of the Mei family breathed a sigh of relief and quickly thanked: "Thank you, young lady, for saving me! I am Mei Che, the young master of the Mei family."
"Just call me Guan Yingying." Guan Yingying helped Mei Che untie the ropes while curiously asking, "Young Master Mei, who tied you up?"
In order to allow the camera to better capture Mei Che's expression, Guan Yingying cooperated and moved closer to the edge of the camera.
Mei Che showed an angry expression: "It's my parents! In order to prevent me from saving my sister, they locked me up at home!"
"It just so happens that I'm going to stop your sister's wedding." Guan Yingying said happily: "Do you know how to ruin the wedding?"
Mei Che was overjoyed: "Is it really like that?"
Guan Yingying nodded: "Of course! Besides me, there are many other...heroes who are also trying to disrupt the wedding. If you have any ideas, please tell me!"
"Take me to Blind Cheng's house in the west!" Mei Che said anxiously, "The talisman I found and customized was destroyed by my parents. Only by sticking the talisman on the four corners of the city, as well as on the spirit tablet of Master Zhu, can we destroy the feng shui of this city and completely prevent the wedding from going ahead!"
Well, it is indeed a very illogical metaphysics.
Guan Yingying muttered in her heart, but her hands kept moving. She quickly untied the restraints on Mei Che and helped him stand up.
The two of them walked out of the courtyard together. Before they had taken a few steps, a black shadow came out from the corner of the courtyard. After sensing Guan Yingying's presence, it rushed over like a tiger.
"It's the hunter!" Guan Yingying let out a soft cry.
The two were very close to each other, and Guan Yingying was still holding Mei Che in her hand, and it seemed that she had no time to escape...
The next second, Guan Yingying let go of Candle Mei Che's hand and jumped up before the hunter could touch her. She seemed to be weightless, and she jumped several meters high and landed on the wall of the Mei family's courtyard.
Guan Yingying chuckled: "How is it, you can't catch me?"
After Guan Yingying finished speaking, she turned over and jumped into the yard, disappearing from the hunter's sight.
If the hunter was going to enter the courtyard, Guan Yingying would use this method to deal with him.
——The several times she encountered hunters before, Guan Yingying chose this simple and cool method to escape, and it worked very well for her.
Sure enough, after he left the hunter's sight, the hunter circled around for a while and soon left on his own initiative.
Guan Yingying walked out of the courtyard with a look of pride, returned to Mei Che, and said to him, "Young Master Mei, let's go."
"This..." Mei Che was obviously still immersed in Guan Yingying's skills, and was very surprised: "Could it be that Miss Guan knows the legendary long-lost Qinggong?"
"It's not some kind of martial art, it's just my own ability." Guan Yingying raised the corners of her mouth, unable to hide her smile.
Only Guan Yingying knows how much she has changed since entering the entertainment industry.
When she was in school, she had always had poor athletic talent, and was not good at singing or dancing. Fortunately, she had a very outstanding face. Even though she was not good at any acting, she successfully debuted as an "actress" and has become a popular young actress with great popularity today.
But just two weeks ago, she suddenly experienced amazing changes. Her strength increased, her reaction speed, and even her learning ability improved significantly, while her body became lighter and lighter, and she could jump two meters high with a single jump.
Guan Yingying was a little scared at first, worried that her body had mutated. But no matter how many hospitals she went to, the doctors just told her again and again that her body was healthy and there was nothing wrong with her.
Until one day, a man came to her.
He told himself that the changes in her were not "mutations" but gifts from God.
"He is the god who controls art. He has been protecting you who have a connection with God since he came to the earth." The man muttered.
At first, Guan Yingying didn't believe it. She just thought the man was possessed by evil spirits and was very strange. If the man was not the boss of an entertainment company and had a very high status in the circle, Guan Yingying would not be willing to listen to his words.
Until the man raised his hand, a ball of fire appeared in his hand out of thin air - it was not a magic trick, nor a scientific projection, but real "magic" that only existed in the fantasy world.
Guan Yingying followed the man to his sect and met the god they believed in - a young woman in her early twenties, wearing a laurel wreath, a white dress, with soft features and a sacred look in her eyes.
"This is the angel 'Muse' under the command of the 'Goddess of Art (Peace)', the existence we follow." The man showed a fanatical expression: "'Goddess of Art' is a god from the world called 'Parnaqui'. Soon, the earth will merge with Parnaqui, and we will follow the 'Muse' to escape the sea of suffering at the end of the world and enter the eternal paradise to enjoy.
The "Muse" that the man followed was a very kind angel. She told Guan Yingying the reason why she was protected - the angel loved her unique temperament and blessed her. As long as Guan Yingying became her believer and kept praying to her, she would also be able to obtain the magic used by the man in the future.
Guan Yingying did not suspect anything and soon joined the sect called "Art Hall". Because she was favored by the "Muse", she had an extraordinary status in the sect.
There are quite a few artists like her who have joined the "Art Hall", and they all have considerable popularity. The worst is a third-tier artist, and there are even well-known movie stars in the entertainment industry.
Their status in the "Hall of Art" is also ranked according to their status in the entertainment industry.
The higher their ranking, the greater the goddess' blessing and the more magical powers they can obtain.
Therefore, in order to gain more powerful strength and ultimately obtain the legendary "eternal life", every artist began to take on jobs crazily and work hard to build a career in the entertainment industry.
With the blessing of the goddess, each of their careers made rapid progress, and the power they gained afterwards became stronger and stronger just as the goddess promised.
In addition to artists like Guan Yingying who have established their own school in the "Art Hall", the company boss who recruited her into the sect also established his own school in the "Art Hall". He is responsible for scouting for newcomers or people blessed by the goddess, and uses his own identity to convince them and bring them into the sect.
In addition, there is another group of pure believers, who are almost all fans of artists in the "Art Hall".
Although the goddess forbids them to preach the sect openly, it does not stop them from secretly infiltrating some of their ideas to fans, attracting fans to join the sect and escape the suffering of doomsday.
The artists who are already familiar with the operation of fan clubs have mastered this trick. Now, the sect has only been "public" in the entertainment industry for two months, but it has already accumulated tens of thousands of believers.
This time, the reason why Guan Yingying participated in "Running Man" was not just for work and career, she also had the role of finding candidates for the goddess.
"This kind of show is the easiest way to tell whether a person has been blessed by a goddess." The boss who brought Guan Yingying to the "Art Hall" passed on his experience to Guan Yingying: "Just look at whether their athletic talent is better than others, and whether their reaction speed is a little bit different from that of normal people."
In order to help Guan Yingying find people better in the show, the boss even used his connections to make Guan Yingying, who joined the show midway, become one of the few permanent guests of this variety show.
The TV station where "Running Man" is shown likes to find all kinds of popular young actresses and actors to record the show, and these spiritual young actresses and actors are often favored by goddesses.
After recording three episodes of the program, Guan Yingying has found two lucky people who have been blessed by the goddess and successfully brought them into the "Art Hall".
Thanks to these two lucky guys, Guan Yingying's status in the "Hall of Art" has risen greatly. The goddess generously gave her a new blessing. Now Guan Yingying's physical fitness has become "superhuman", and she can easily jump three meters high.
Just two days ago, Guan Yingying was scouting for two new people.
The variety show "Goodbye Peach Blossom Land" dominated the headlines on major SNS websites in the past two days. In addition to the old-fashioned "supernatural events" of the show, more discussion focused on the two flying guests - Lin Lang and Su Mu.
The two's interesting program effects and the special sides they showed in the program have attracted great attention and discussion.
Others thought it was just coincidence, program editing or the two were just gifted.
Only Guan Yingying knew that these two people were blessed by the "Muse"!
Guan Yingying was thinking about how to find an opportunity to get close to the two of them - she heard that they rarely participated in entertainment activities, and never even walked on the red carpet, so there was no chance to get close to them.
But I didn't expect to suddenly receive the news that the two of them would participate in "Running Man".
So on the day of recording, Guan Yingying had been secretly watching Lin Lang and Su Mu.
Compared to Lin Lang, who disappeared without a trace at the beginning of the show and later inexplicably replaced the heroine "Mei Fang" and sat in the wedding sedan, and was in a strange state, Su Mu received more attention from Guan Yingying.
Especially when Su Mu took Ding Bowen to avoid the hunters, Guan Yingying, who was hiding in the dark, became more and more convinced that Su Mu was the one blessed by the goddess!
After the show is recorded, I will definitely introduce him to the goddess!
Guan Yingying thought excitedly in her heart.
...
Su Mu was unaware of Guan Yingying's thoughts and had no time to pay attention.
At this moment, he was holding the eldest son of the Zhu family in his left hand and Ding Bowen in his right hand, and running wildly along the road in front of the Zhu family's old house.
Fortunately, the road was not very wide and there were NPCs wandering around nearby. These servants were holding weapons in their hands, so their movements were hindered. Even though Su Mu was alone with two people, he still successfully took Ding Bowen and the young master of the Zhu family around several street corners and escaped the pursuit of the servants.
At this moment, the two of them were sitting in an old winery in the city, using NPCs to conceal their bodies while observing their surroundings to prevent any accidents from happening.
Ding Bowen collapsed on the table, panting with exhaustion, not even bothering to wipe off the sweat, like an over-exercised Shar-Pei dog.
The condition of the eldest son of the Zhu family was not much better than his. He was originally a weak and sickly person, and could not bear such intense exercise at all. This person looked dazed, with empty eyes, as if he had lost half of his life.
Su Mu poured a glass of water for the two men and the cameramen, and quietly blended a trace of magic into the water.
"You'll feel better after drinking a glass of water." Su Mu said.
Ding Bowen took the cup and drank it without thinking, and his face finally became much more relaxed. He sighed and said, "I'm alive!"
Zhu Bieshu's movements of drinking tea were more reserved than Ding Bowen's. He drank the tea in small sips and looked at Su Mu with a very complicated look.
After finishing the whole cup of tea, Zhu Bieshu's complexion finally improved a lot. He held the empty teacup, and his right hand tightened little by little, as if he was struggling with something, but he couldn't make up his mind.
"If you have something to say, just say it now." Su Mu saw through Zhu Bieshu's hesitation at a glance.
"...Why are you taking me with you to escape?" Zhu Bieshu turned his head away, not daring to meet Su Mu's gaze: "Don't you already know that I am a heartless person? Since I am useless, why are you taking me, a burden, with you to escape?"
There was a hint of expectation in Zhu Bieshu's words, but Su Mu didn't fall for his tricks at all and said lazily, "Because you haven't told me the address yet."
"...What?"
"You know the address of the Underworld Marriage, right?" Su Mu said, "Why else would I bring you along? To waste time and energy?"
Zhubieshu: "......"
The cell phone hanging in the armband suddenly rang at this moment.
Lin Lang made a "stop" gesture to Zhu Bieshu, took out his phone, answered it, and said "Hello".
"Su Mu? This is Guan Yingying." The woman on the other end of the phone had a sweet voice, with a hint of subtle courtesy: "I have now found the props to dissolve the ghost marriage, how are you doing?"
Su Mu raised his eyebrows slightly, and a slight arc appeared at the corner of his mouth, but he quickly suppressed it and deliberately put on a regretful and helpless expression in front of the camera: "The eldest young master of the Zhu family doesn't want to save Mei Fang at all, but he knows the location of the ghost marriage, and we are asking."
"In that case, I will take the young master of the Mei family to join you first." Guan Yingying's voice sounded again: "The props in my hand require us to go to the four corners of the east, south, west and north. I don't have time to complete the task alone."
"I'm at the old winery in the city." Su Mu told Guan Yingying his current location.
"Okay, see you later." Guan Yingying hung up the phone with joy.
——Although the mobile phone signal is useless in the barrier, Lin Lang has already prepared magic power in advance, so calls between players are not affected, but the director team cannot call the players.
Su Mu put down his phone, and his magic power dissipated silently. He quickly captured Lin Lang's magic power that was drifting around, and connected the private channel between the two.
"Lin Lang, Guan Yingying contacted me."
"Oh? Did she say anything?"
"She is just using the game mission as an excuse to get close to me." Su Mu said, "It depends on how long she can hold back."
——Guan Yingying didn’t know that the purpose of Lin Lang and Su Mu coming to this show was for her from the very beginning.
The work arrangements of the two are now interfered by the authorities, who have long noticed this mysterious sect hidden in the dark and have used their vast intelligence network to investigate the artists and entertainment professionals who are in collusion with the sect.
The sect involves a large number of people. If you want to wipe out the entire sect, you must at least find the sect's hiding place first.
However, they who called themselves the "Palace of Art" hid themselves very deeply like sewer rats. With the dual blessing of magic and faith, they were very powerful. For a while, even the officials could not find their hiding place.
Especially the liar who called herself "Muse". It was said that she was originally a time traveler. After returning to Earth, she relied on her identity as a time traveler to swindle people. After awakening her magic power, she created this scam with the help of several time travelers who also had ulterior motives.
The so-called "blessing" had nothing to do with this "Muse" from the beginning. It was just that the fans' fanatical love for their idols turned into power under the blessing of magic, which significantly improved the physical fitness of these artists.
They deceived these stars into thinking they were blessed, and through the magic performed by the scammers, they believed in the existence of the "Goddess", and thus began to believe in the Goddess. Once they acknowledged that their power came from the "Goddess" and regarded the Goddess as a true belief, these artists were no longer the bearers of the power of faith, but became "converters", with a portion of the power of faith remaining, and the vast majority of the power flowing continuously into the body of the "Goddess".
It was obvious that this group of swindlers were well aware of the existence of the power of faith. They had even established a church long before the earth's magic power revived.
But even the official only knew about the existence of the power of faith because of Lin Yuan, so how did this liar and the time traveler behind him know about it? Did he become a clergyman directly after traveling through time?
There are many strange things behind this matter. Perhaps it involves forces such as the "Dragon Clan" that traveled from Parnaki to the Earth. Not to mention that the sect has accumulated a lot of power in just two months, and it is very difficult to eliminate them.
Therefore, the best way is to let Lin Lang and Su Mu, whose "peculiarities" have long been noticed by the public through variety shows, and who have clean backgrounds and the dual identities of "time travelers" and "artists", infiltrate the interior of this sect.
——What the authorities need is a list of believers who have joined the sect. As long as they find this list and hand it over to the authorities, they can quickly control and protect all the believers, preventing those few scammers from going all out and killing the believers along with themselves.
As long as the deceived citizens are not put in danger, the authorities do not care about how this sect is destroyed - now with Lin Lang, Su Mu, and those powerful people behind them who have not yet revealed their identities, all problems are not a problem.
Even if there was only Lin Lang or Su Mu, they believed that with their abilities, they could destroy the entire sect single-handedly.
...
"What's the situation there now?" Su Mu asked again.
"It's exhausting to carry the sedan." Lin Lang said, "We will reach our destination in about five minutes, and the ceremony will take about ten minutes. When the ceremony is completed, the mutants should evolve for the second time. If you can't make it in time, I will use illusion to delay them and let them go around in circles."
"Fifteen minutes should be enough." Su Mu used his mental power to sense the players around him: "Where are the mutants?"
"I'm still suppressing it. The closer it gets to the Nether Marriage Point, the more violent its spirit becomes, and its power is gradually increasing. It's been singing on top of my sedan for more than ten minutes, and it's been instilling thoughts of suicide in my mind. It's really noisy, so I sealed its voice."
Su Mu: "...Don't torture it too hard, or it will die before you can contain it."
"I know, I know. Hurry up. I'm afraid I won't be able to hold back my itch in a little while."
After hanging up the private chat with Lin Lang, Su Mu tapped the table with his hand and looked straight at Zhu Bieshu, as if he could see through his soul.
Jubieshu flinched.
"Master Zhu," Su Mu said, "Now the time, place and people are right, and we have found a way to crack the wedding. Miss Mei can also be saved for you. Are you really still doing nothing?"
"...Twenty steps into the east side of the ancestral hall, there is a secret passage where the ghost marriage is held."
Su Mu smiled slightly and stood up: "Let's go, it's time to end this game."
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