The other end.

Kong Xuyang and Lamb landed steadily after logging into Yinshan Village. They took a look at the game map and the player identity introduction on the system panel. They couldn’t help but smile proudly: “Great, this is God’s help. The two-player dungeon randomly selected by the system is Yinshan Village.”

The lamb next to him also showed a strange smile on his face: “Brother Kong, this is a copy we have played before.”

Kong Xuyang’s eyes flashed with a sinister light: “It seems that God wants us to deal with Bai Liu.”

“Let’s scout the location first. When we get there, listen to me. I’ll let you use your skills first.” Kong Xuyang looked back at the pond, his face frightened, and warned in a vigilant tone, “Xiao Yang, remember? In this game, you must not pass by the pond at night.”

[Silence of the Lambs]’s real name is Yang Zhi. In the game, Kong Xuyang usually calls him Xiao Yang, which has the same accent as [Little Lamb], so the audience can’t tell his real name.

After hearing Kong Xuyang’s reminder, Yang Zhi glanced at the pond filled with dark green duckweed and couldn’t help rubbing his arms. He nodded with a chill on the back of his neck, “I know, Brother Kong. Last time, we almost lost in this game because we walked along the road next to the pond.”

Kong Xuyang withdrew his gaze from the weir pond and said, “If I hadn’t walked through it before, I wouldn’t dare to activate my skill [Silent] in this game, because after activating it, not only Bai Liu and the others, but also our panel will be frozen, and we won’t be able to use skills or items even if we exit the game. We can only rush forward.”

“Fortunately, we already know what happened.”

Yang Zhi nodded repeatedly to agree with Kong Xuyang, and said with lingering fear: “This ‘Yinshan Village’ is the most difficult puzzle-solving dungeon we have encountered in the game pool. If I hadn’t gone through it once, I really wouldn’t dare to let you, Brother Kong, use your skills casually. It’s too easy to die.”

“But this is the good thing about decryption dungeons.” Kong Xuyang walked slowly towards Yinshan Village. “There is not much fighting involved. The lack of a system panel doesn’t matter to the two of us who already know the answer to the mystery.”

Kong Xuyang sneered maliciously: “But for our opponents, that may not be the case.”

“Brother Kong.” Yang Zhi pulled Kong Xuyang’s sleeve and leaned close to Kong Xuyang’s ear carefully, “I don’t know if there is something wrong with my memory. You also know that my memory skill is sometimes confused. I always feel that I have seen this Bai Liu before.”

Kong Xuyang rolled his eyes: “Aren’t you talking nonsense? You participated in the attack on him tonight. Didn’t you just see this idiot?”

Yang Zhi stammered and said in a low voice: “Brother Kong, that’s not what I meant. I think I have seen Bai Liu before.”

“Speak louder. The audience can’t hear you at this volume. What are you afraid of?” Kong Xuyang frowned, “What did you just say?

“In fact, it’s not just Bai Liu. I also felt like I saw the other woman who was attacked last night.” Yang Zhi took out a faded red bow hair tie from his pocket and handed it to Yang Zhi. “This hair tie has been in the bathroom of my house for two years. I don’t know who left it there, but I saw it on that woman’s head last night.”

Yang Zhi paused: “Boss, I always feel that we have attacked Bai Liu and this woman before.”

“How is that possible?” Kong Xuyang denied without hesitation, “All the photos taken by the paparazzi are kept. There are no photos of these two people at all.”

“But…” Yang Zhi said hesitantly, “I always feel like there’s something wrong. Tonight a biker said that he attacked a woman two years ago and crushed her until her intestines came out. I remember this woman, but I don’t remember her face.”

Yang Zhi raised his head and looked at Kong Xuyang: “I have a memory skill, and it’s hard for me to forget someone’s face. Brother Kong, I wonder if someone has tampered with the memory of all of us?”

Kong Xuyang waved his hand impatiently to interrupt him: “Impossible, tampering with everyone’s memory? Are you kidding? If anyone has this skill, he is no longer a player, but a god.”

“Stop talking about this and that, and go to the village first.”

After Kong Xu finished speaking, he pulled Yang Zhi onto the muddy road covered with paper money and headed towards the mountain village where smoke was curling up from cooking fires.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew, and a strange laughter that sounded like crying and laughing came from somewhere.

The two sets of footprints left by Kong Xuyang and Yang Zhi on the muddy road slowly formed a small inverted triangle footprint from their heels. It seemed that something was following them, following their footprints one by one.

The pond filled with duckweed beside the dirt road after the rain suddenly shook twice, a few bubbles popped out, and another twisted laugh came from the bottom of the water.

The bright red wedding gown and white funeral clothes were swaying faintly in the water.

The other party.

Bai Liu dragged Mu Sicheng, who had fallen on his arm, along the muddy mountain road to the gate of Yinshan Village.

The dirt road was covered with white paper money for the afterlife, and it became denser as one got closer to the village entrance. In the end, the entire yellow dirt road was covered white with paper money.

Bai Liu looked up at the village. The village was shrouded in a hazy white mist and the sky was extremely dark. It was impossible to see anything in the distance at a glance. The only things that could be seen clearly were seven or eight houses nearby.

The doors of these seven or eight houses were all wide open. It was dark inside the houses and it seemed as if there were shadows swaying and footsteps from time to time, but when Bai Liu looked carefully, there was nothing.

Opposite the door, or next to it, there is a pile of fruits and vegetables neatly arranged, and a bowl of water. Next to the bowl of water is a pile of yellow paper money that has not been burned completely, and in the bowl of water there are two red candles that have not been completely lit.

The melted tears of the red candle dripped into the bowl of water, condensing into a layer of dark red wax on the surface of the bowl, with some black paper money ash floating on it.

There were a lot of firecrackers hung on the trees in the small courtyard right opposite the door. Because of this, the ground was littered with red barrels of firecrackers after they exploded. Now, after the rain, they had been soaked and softened, and melted into the ground. A rich, greasy smell of sesame oil was floating in the air.

At first glance, it is the scene after a large number of sacrifices.

After taking a look, Bai Liu walked into Yinshan Village.

After entering Yinshan Village, Mu Sicheng stuck close to Bai Liu and did not leave his side.

Bai Liu walked past a house, and the open door of the house was suddenly slammed shut, followed by the wide-open windows that were quickly closed one by one.

Bai Liu’s entry into the village was like giving the village a signal. As he walked in, every time he passed a house, the family would quickly close their open doors and windows.

The loud banging sounds of doors and windows slamming could be heard continuously, and you could also hear the sound of someone running around the room closing doors and windows.

Soon, lights came on in the dark rooms with closed doors and windows. The dim light shone through the windows, casting the shadows of the people inside on the windows.

Mu Sicheng glanced over and almost cried out the moment he saw the figure, but Bai Liu quickly covered his mouth.

Mu Sicheng looked at the figures dimly reflected on the white paper windows with rapid breathing.

Some of these figures leaning against the windows had only half a head, some had a big hole in the middle of their chest, and some had no hands or feet.

The shadow was reflected motionlessly on the window, as if it was observing Bai Liu and the others coming in. The incomplete head would move slightly and stiffly as Bai Liu walked.

The candle in the bowl of water next to the door suddenly stood up and lit up as Bai Liu walked by. The candlelight flickered and had a faint purple-bluish tint.

The pile of paper money began to emit rekindled red sparks, and white money for the afterlife began to float down from the foggy sky, slowly landing on the shoulders of Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng.

The further he went inside, the clearer the figures by the window became. Mu Sicheng could even see the bloody handprints left on the paper windows.

These figures followed Bai Liu into the village and kept approaching the window.

Once, Mu Sicheng saw a blood-red eye staring at him and Bai Liu through the broken paper window.

“Bai Liu~” Mu Sicheng was so scared that his voice was shaking. He pulled Bai Liu’s arm down twice, “It seems that they don’t welcome us~”

Bai Liu hummed calmly: “It’s obvious that they are all closed for visitors.”

“They didn’t attack us. This isn’t a monster-killing dungeon. It should be a puzzle dungeon.”

Bai Liu looked around at the people and said, “What we need most in the decryption game is information. Let’s find a house and take a look.”

Mu Sicheng’s hair stood on end: “Now?”

Bai Liu glanced at Mu Sicheng calmly and said, “I was just kidding. Seeing how scared you are, I’ll try to calm you down.”

Mu Sicheng: “…”

This person really has character issues.

At this time, someone patted Mu Sicheng on the shoulder. Mu Sicheng was frightened and turned around to attack people with his monkey claws, but was stopped by Bai Liu.

Standing in front of them was a man with a pale face and a haggard look, holding a flashlight. “You are the young people who have returned to your hometown to deal with the ancestral graves, right? I am He Daniu, from a nearby village. Please, archaeological team, I will wait here for you to come over.”

Mu Sicheng and Bai Liu’s system panels popped up prompts at the same time:

[System Alert: Players trigger NPC He Daniu and can receive the side quest – Guarding Yizhuang]

As soon as He Daniu appeared, the lights in the rooms dimmed instantly, and the figures returned to the darkness, and nothing could be seen.

He seemed to have not noticed the figures in the room at all. He turned around and waved slowly to Bai Liu and the others, and said in a long tone: “Come with me, let’s go to the charity cemetery first. Your grandparents are waiting for you there.”

After saying this, He Daniu walked forward holding up the old flashlight that flickered unsteadily, muttering to himself as he walked: “I was also guarding Yizhuang in the next village. There was no one in your village, so I came to help guard it. Now that you are back, you are your own ancestors, so it’s time for you to guard it yourselves.”

“How can a person from another village like me guard the Yinshan Village Charity Hall?”

Bai Liu followed He Daniu and asked, “Why can’t someone from outside the village guard it?”

He Daniu paused and said, “For a hundred years, Yinshan Village has never allowed outsiders to guard the village. We do everything by ourselves. Our ancestors have taken root here and lived here. The native Yinshan villagers do not go outside, nor do they allow outsiders to enter the village.”

“So after all these years, this place is still very old and underdeveloped. It looks the same as it did a hundred years ago.”

“Outsiders are not welcome here. If outsiders mistakenly enter here, they will be driven away.”

He Daniu coughed twice and continued, “It means that your grandparents, the last group of people who were born and raised in Yinshan Village, have all died. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be my turn as an outsider to help guard the bodies.”

“But I can only stay here for two days at most. If you don’t come back, I will leave too.”

Mu Sicheng asked: “Why?”

He Daniu slowly turned his head and looked at Mu Sicheng with old, decayed eyes: “Why? It will be the seventh day in two days. Once [they] come back, I, a foreigner, can’t stay.”

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