Chapter 34.
Tang Yu and Tang En fled from the main street. The townspeople remained motionless the whole time. They looked at their departing backs with attentive smiles on their faces.
The two ran into an empty alley, gasping for breath. Tang En was so tired that he couldn't help but put his hand on the wall, but he touched a sticky and slippery moss.
He withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted, and shook it for a long time while suppressing his nausea, but the dark green mosses seemed to be sticky, and no matter what Tang En did, his fingers were always stained with a hint of green.
Could this be poisonous?
That thought flooded into Tang En's mind uncontrollably again, and then he felt an unbearable feeling of suffocation.
"Huh! Huh!" Tang En put his hands on his chest and tried to regulate his breathing, but it was of no use. Lack of oxygen made his vision a little blurry.
Tang Yu, who was not far from him, noticed something was wrong and ran over to support him.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Tang En's face flushed red. He stretched out his moss-stained fingers to show Tang Yu, and stammered, "I, I'm poisoned!"
Tang Yu's eyes widened when he heard this, "What's going on?"
"Moss! It's poisonous!" Tang En couldn't even stand. His vision went dark and he felt like he was going to die in the next second.
"What's the matter with being poisonous or not? Every household in our country eats this, so how come no one has been poisoned to death?" A loud male voice suddenly came from behind the two of them, startling the two panicked people.
Tang Yu suddenly turned his head and looked behind him, and saw a middle-aged man wearing black village cloth, with a cloth strip wrapped around his head and a silver-embroidered belt around his waist, a typical townsman's outfit.
"Who are you?" Tang Yu looked at the newcomer warily and asked, "You said this moss is not poisonous, but why is he like this?!"
The middle-aged man didn't seem to be afraid of the cold. His two strong arms were exposed. The dense raindrops fell on his body, and even the evaporation of water vapor could be vaguely seen!
Unlike the townspeople Tang Yu had seen before, this person's face had the same color as a normal person's.
Faced with Tang Yu's questioning, the middle-aged man was not angry but patiently answered one by one.
"I am the mayor here. Everyone calls me Lao Jin."
Mayor Lao Jin glanced at Tang En and said, "Oh, it's okay, he was just frightened. Children here often get frightened. He will be fine after drinking some hot soup and taking a nap!"
Lao Jin said it lightly and Tang Yu didn't believe it at first, but as he finished speaking, Tang En's face looked better.
Even Tang En himself had an incredible expression. He touched his chest and said blankly, "I think I'm fine."
"Look!" Old Jin laughed. He looked at the two people's attire and asked enthusiastically, "Are you tourists here to have fun?"
Tang Yu nodded. She didn't see anything wrong with Old Jin, so she relaxed her vigilance towards him.
Lao Jin nodded repeatedly upon hearing this, and said, "Come and have fun! The scenery here is quite nice, and the folks in the town are also very friendly. You won't regret coming here!"
If this wasn't in a B-level multiplayer dungeon, Tang Yu would have believed it.
"We didn't see any inns in the town, so we didn't know where we could rest."
Tang Yu supported Tang En and asked Lao Jin. Although Tang En had recovered, his face was still a little pale and he really needed rest.
Upon hearing this, Lao Jin's honest face wrinkled. He said in distress, "I'm sorry, there is no hotel in our town, but you can stay in the homes of the villagers. They are very nice!"
Tang Yu couldn't help but think of Mrs. Tang who had a strange reaction.
After they rejected Mrs. Tom's suggestion to stay overnight, strange changes seemed to have taken place in the house, including Mrs. Tom's.
Including the situation they encountered on the main street, the townspeople had an almost strange desire to accommodate outsiders like them.
But Old Jin didn't even suggest that Tang Yu and the others live in his house. Why?
Tang Yu looked at Lao Jin's skin, which was exactly the same as that of a living person, as well as the heat rising from his skin. No matter how you looked at it, he was definitely a living person.
"Do you know Mrs. Tang in town?" After hesitating for a while, Tang Yu still asked Lao Jin this question.
Upon hearing this, the cheerful look on Lao Jin's face disappeared, replaced by a solemn look.
"She's been dead for a year or two. She was a poor woman. Her husband and son went out to sea to fish, and neither of them came back."
Old Jin had a sigh on his face as he spoke, completely unaware of the shock of Tang Yu and the others.
"Tang, Sister Tang Yu..." Tang En called out Tang Yu quietly with a pale face. He couldn't say the rest of the words, but Tang Yu knew what he wanted to express.
If it is true as Lao Jin said that Mrs. Tang is dead, then who was the Mrs. Tang they met before?
"Mayor, is there anyone else in this town called Mrs. Tang?"
Lao Jin shook his head: "Oh! Who else is there besides Aunt Tang who lives next to Lao Ben's house in Waini Lane? I know everyone in our town, I can't be wrong!"
After getting the confirmation, the two felt a sense of horror creeping up from the tailbone to the top of the head, although they were prepared to face the weirdness from the beginning.
However, the feeling of talking to a dead person still makes people feel instinctively uncomfortable.
Tang Yu observed Lao Jin and compared him with Mrs. Tang in her mind. Based on the information she had obtained so far, she speculated that the mayor might actually be alive.
"Mayor, we are not familiar with this place. Can we stay at your house for one night?" Tang Yu glanced at Tang En, who nodded to indicate that he had no objection.
If the entire Lonely Cliff Town is a place where the living and the dead coexist, they would rather choose the living than stay with the dead.
Lao Jin was the first living townsman Tang Yu saw, and there was no sign of malice in him. Tang Yu felt that perhaps he could trust him temporarily.
When Lao Jin heard this, he uttered an "ah" sound. He seemed to have not expected Tang Yu to say this at all. He asked, "You guys are going to live in my house?"
Tang Yu nodded.
Lao Jin wiped the fine raindrops that fell on his face, nodded and said indifferently: "Okay, just don't be disgusted."
The mayor's house is located in the center of Guya Town, at least that's what Tang Yu thought.
The two followed Lao Jin and walked around in the narrow alleys. Tang Yu kept trying to remember the route, but the roads in this small town were too complicated.
Tang Yu finally gave up memorizing the route, but she could feel that they were heading towards the town center.
When we arrived at the mayor's house, the salty smell of sea water in the air had faded a little.
"Come in and sit down. I'll ask my wife to clean up the room for you." Old Jin invited the two of them in and shouted into the house, "My dear! Guests are coming!"
Lao Jin’s house is the first two-story building Tang Yu has seen since entering Guya Town, and perhaps it is also the only one of its kind.
The small building is also made of stone, and the fence next to the balcony upstairs is tied with old vines, which looks very charming.
Lao Jin's wife came out of the house when she heard the shouting. She looked short and fat, as round as a winter melon. When she saw Tang Yu and the other man, she was stunned for a moment, then she put on a smiling face.
"Come in and sit down, I'll boil some water and make tea for you!" The fat woman happily took the apron and tied it around her waist, now she looked like a round gourd.
The chattering sounds of children came down from upstairs, and in the blink of an eye, two chubby and cute children appeared in front of everyone.
Two little kids, a boy and a girl, were lying by the door, looking at Tang Yu and Tang En.
"This is my child. He is very naughty. Please forgive me." Lao Jin brought a rattan stool to the two of them and apologized, "We don't have anything good to treat you at home."
"It's okay. We are the ones who disturbed the uncle." Tang En said quickly while sitting on the bench.
The human scene before my eyes seemed very lively and full of life. There were no pale and weird townspeople, no smell of mold and decay. The base of the wall was dry, and the smell of kitchen smoke wafted in the air.
Everything seemed so normal, so normal that it was out of place in the entire Lonely Cliff Town.
Tang En didn't want to move at all. Such a comfortable environment greatly soothed his nerves and made him gradually relax.
That long-lost sense of security is so rare.
Tang Yu looked around with satisfaction and said to Tang En, "Let's stay here tonight."
Tang En nodded hurriedly.
In the evening, Lao Jin's family specially made a smoked fish to entertain the two people. When it was served on the table, the two children were drooling, but Lao Jin stopped them and let the guests eat first.
Tang Yu waved his hand to indicate that he had brought rations and let Lao Jin and the others eat on their own.
Although Lao Jin's family looked normal, this was a B-level multiplayer dungeon after all. There were many dangers in the dungeon, so Tang Yu thought it was better not to trust them easily.
Seeing that Tang Yu and Tang En really didn't want to eat it, Lao Jin stopped trying to persuade them, and the family of four happily shared the smoked fish.
Tang En and Tang Yu were eating Lao Fan's bread together. Seeing Lao Jin's family enjoying the fish, he couldn't help but ask, "Don't people in this town make a living by fishing? Don't you eat fish every meal?"
Lao Jin laughed and said, "The fish in the sea are gifts from the gods. There are only a limited number of them. It's impossible to eat them every day."
Old Jin's words aroused Tang Yu's interest, and she asked, "Does everyone in this town believe in God?"
After all, Tang Yu had heard the term "God" more than once.
When Old Jin heard Tang Yu mention this, his expression became more serious.
He nodded and said, "Yes, according to legend, the mountain at the foot of our town was not like this before. Later, it was split in the middle by the gods, and then this piece of land came into being."
Lao Jin spoke in a very serious tone, and Tang Yu nodded without commenting to indicate that he understood.
Lao Jin went on to say, "You've come at the perfect time. In ten days we'll have our harvest festival. You'll have a lot to watch then!"
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"Harvest Celebration?" When Xiang Tonghua asked this question, he looked at Yang Mingzhe steadily to make sure that he was not lying.
After Yang Mingzhe was rescued, he was always afraid of being alone again. In order not to be abandoned by Xiang Tonghua and Annie, he tried hard to show his value.
If he was calm enough, he would realize how strange his current state was.
As a top 500 expert who has participated in high-level dungeons many times, he was actually frightened here.
It was obvious that he was suffering from some irresistible mental erosion!
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