"Um, you mean, this little... uh, cute thing in your hand, is the boss?" Li Cancan and Sun Ning stared at the little thing in Baili Xin's hand that was shaking when he walked, with both of them looking confused.
The chubby and furry wolf cub lay in Baili Xin's palm, howling non-stop.
Baili Xin: "I am going up the mountain now. If I am not back tomorrow morning, you can say that I went up the mountain."
He thought for a moment and pulled out a shield from his backpack and handed it to the two of them. "I'll give you this shield first. If you encounter danger, it should be able to block a wave of damage for you. Protect yourselves."
Sun Ning and Li Cancan quickly put away their confused expressions. Li Cancan took the shield, and the two nodded seriously at Baili Xin.
The moment Li Cancan took the shield, a system voice sounded in her mind, congratulations to the player, you have obtained a god-level item x1. This item is a protective item that can protect the player from any physical attack.
The moment he heard the words "god-level props", Li Cancan's expression changed instantly, "God Xin, this prop is..."
A god-level item, which might only be found in a few places in the entire game lobby, and God Xin just gave it to me so easily?!
I am so touched! Is this the trust of teammates
Woo woo woo, don't worry, God Xin, I will definitely protect myself and Sun Ning, and I will shout "666" for you at the critical moment.
"It's okay, just take it first." Baili Xin continued, "Don't trust anyone except yourself, and wait for me to come back."
He threw down these words, turned around hurriedly, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
He had to be quick because he found that the wolf cub's body was smaller than before.
If he continued to stay in this village, he was really afraid that the old man would turn into a tadpole.
Oh, so pitiful.
The wolf cub's four legs froze for a moment: "Awoo, awoo."
Frustratingjpg, wuwuwu.
The stars are vast, and under the night sky, Baili Xin is like an elegant fox, nimbly moving through the woods.
Dijia’s current situation should be related to the curse in the village.
What is known now is:
First, there is a type of person in the village who will turn into a pig.
Second, babies and even children grow very quickly.
Baili Xin glanced at Dijia in his arms.
So which one did he meet
Emperor Ga once said that he was five hundred years old this year.
Five hundred years old is considered a very old age among humans.
So, is it possible that this curse, while it has effects on young people, will also have effects on the elderly
Young people will grow up quickly, so will the "older" people like Dijia be "rejuvenated"
If this is the case, then in a sense, this village can really be said to be a "wish come true".
Children want to grow up quickly, and old people want to regain their youth.
That means there is one more thing on top of what we already know.
Third, the elderly will rejuvenate and may even turn into babies.
There are many traps on the mountain, and even Baili Xin has to be careful when running on the mountain.
Originally, I thought the wolf cub's body would recover after leaving the villa, but now Baili Xin has almost run to the top of the mountain with the gray wolf, and there is still no change.
Does it mean that once you are cursed, there is no way to get rid of the curse even if you leave the village
So what is needed to break the curse
But even though the curse has not been lifted, there is still good news.
At least the wolf cub's body did not continue to shrink. After entering Qingshan, its body remained in this state for about a month. It could barely stand up, and its cries became like clipping sounds.
It only took Baili Xin a dozen minutes to reach the top of the mountain.
The wind was cold on the mountain, so he took out a hooded sports jacket from his backpack and put it on.
After placing the wolf cub on his hat, Baili Xin stood on the top of the mountain and looked down.
It is now half past eight in the evening, and the lights in the gentle land go out almost at the same second.
Without any signal, the villagers acted in unison as if they had received some kind of training.
As the lights went out, the village at the foot of the mountain became dark in an instant.
Looking down from here, you can only see rows of low bungalows.
It was so quiet that it seemed as if no one lived there.
Baili Xin looked towards the other side of the mountain again.
There was still heavy fog over there, but this time, it seemed that there was something hidden inside the fog.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew from nowhere, and the fog on the other side of the mountain was suddenly blown away.
Behind the white fog, a rugged mountain road appeared.
There is a small village at the end of the mountain road.
Unlike the Land of Gentleness, this small village looked much smaller. Because it was too high and there was fog, he couldn't see the specific appearance of the village.
—You will become lost after entering the fog.
He still remembered what Dijia said, but... he was already here.
Didn’t he come to the mountain late at night just to enter the fog and find out what was going on
While Baili Xin was thinking, the fog that had originally dispersed seemed to be gathering again. Without hesitation, Baili Xin jumped and walked into the fog along the rugged mountain road.
But in just a moment, his figure disappeared in the gradually thickening white fog.
…
When Baili Xin was halfway there, the fog around him gathered again and he gradually lost his direction.
He could only move forward relying on his sixth sense and the path he had previously memorized.
The temperature around is getting lower and lower. If the temperature on the other side of the mountain is summer, then the temperature on this side of the mountain is probably late autumn.
The wolf cub kept crying, so Baili Xin had to take it out of the hat and hold it back in his arms.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, he finally felt that he had stepped on flat ground.
The moment his feet touched the ground, everything in front of him suddenly became clear.
A very old village appeared before him.
This village is not big, and there are only about twenty houses.
The houses are made of mud and grass.
The whole village was pitch black, without a single light.
But this village without light is not just like the village next door, where the whole village is asleep, but it is deserted.
This village seemed to have been abandoned for a long time. Some of the original walls had collapsed, and the yard was scattered with dead grass.
When Baili Xin stepped into the village, a light object flew towards him. He grabbed it subconsciously, and what he caught in his hand turned out to be a piece of yellow paper money.
The wolf cub in his arms shrank his head and cried twice.
Baili Xin patted the wolf cub's head soothingly and walked into the village with a flashlight in hand.
Judging from the signs of collapsed walls, this village has been abandoned for at least 20 to 30 years.
s419m: Host, I'm scared. Can you move your eyes slower? We are in the front row of 3D and it's really exciting. Right, Tongmei
Escape System: It's okay, I've wrapped myself in my little quilt. As long as the quilt is there, no giaogiao can get close to me. I know, this is called "quilt sealing technique" in the human world. Lord Baili Xin, come on.
As soon as the escape system finished speaking, it suddenly screamed.
The scream was so shrill that even Baili Xin was startled.
s419m: Tongmei, what's your name? !
Escape System: Sorry, a rat just ran over there. I thought it was something weird and scared me to death. Woohoo, it's really scary. M, please give me a hug.
Blissin: …
You two are a disgrace to the system community!
Baili Xin did not rush into the house, but walked around the road from beginning to end.
As he walked, he reached the end of the village and saw a small square.
It is more like an empty flat area than a square.
There are many tables and chairs scattered on the flat ground. Due to the long time, these tables and chairs have long been bitten by insects and ants and are in pieces.
Baili Xin shone the flashlight on the tables and chairs that had already sunk into the soil, and the flashlight flashed a bright light when it landed on a certain place.
He walked closer and bent over to look, and saw something that was almost buried in the soil.
Baili Xin used his hands to pick at it and soon pulled out a piece of white porcelain. The pattern on the porcelain was very similar to the pattern on some tableware.
Tables, chairs, and porcelain tiles indicate that some kind of banquet was probably going on here at the time.
It could be a happy event or a sad event.
It could be a centenary party or a wedding, anything could be possible.
Baili Xin was looking down intently, when suddenly, a pair of red embroidered shoes appeared in front of him.
He suddenly held his breath, and even the wolf cub in his arms subconsciously stood still.
The pair of embroidered shoes were wet with mud, and the wet red skirt wrapped around her lower body. Something was dripping from her embroidered shoes and the hem of her skirt and falling into the mud.
Tick.
Tick.
Tick.
One drop, two drops, three drops.
In just a moment, several drops of red liquid fell around the embroidered shoes.
Baili Xin took a deep breath and slowly put on her shirt, following her eyes along the embroidered shoes.
First, it was the same dark red skirt, and then a pair of hands like eagle claws on dry wood.
Then there was the red jacket with a double-breasted front… the neck with distinct blue veins and black skin…
Baili Xin's gaze showed no sign of slowing down, and finally his eyes fell on the face opposite.
Those were a pair of charred faces whose features had long been unrecognizable.
Her body seemed to have been roasted in fire, her skin had turned charred, and her eye sockets were covered with a thick layer of charred coal on her dark skin. Her weed-like black hair hung down on both sides of her head, and her long hair fell to her waist.
Because her eyes were blocked, she seemed unable to see, and her nose and ears were blocked by thick black substance.
Not only was she blind, she was also deaf and blind.
She stretched out her hands randomly, grasping everything, as if trying to find the scent of a stranger.
Baili Xin held his breath and moved nimbly to avoid the ghost girl's grasp.
The female ghost was a little anxious.
She seemed to be able to sense someone coming into the village, but she couldn't find that person.
Her charred face, which had already melted into one, tried to move, and she made "hmm" sounds in her throat, as if she wanted to say something, but nothing came out.
_________________________
Studio.
Friendly reminder, you can breathe while watching this live video.
Thank you so much, I almost suffocated.
Damn, I was so scared. The moment the pair of red embroidered shoes appeared in Xin Shen's sight, I almost died on the spot.
I was almost scared to death when I saw the ghost girl's face.
Is this something for humans to see? Anyone who doesn’t have a heart disease will be scared to death!
Um, comrades, do you feel that the style of the live broadcast seems to have changed a bit? Why do I suddenly feel that Xin Shen is playing hide-and-seek with a female ghost
I ask Xin Shen to be more professional in his expression. He really doesn't want to be like this to create a scary atmosphere for this giaogiao. Why do I not only don't feel scared, but I find it a little cute
In the live broadcast, the female ghost kept waving her arms, as if looking for an "outsider".
The outsider Baili Xin was holding a wolf cub in his arms, and in front of him was a female ghost in red with uncoordinated limbs. He just dodged the female ghost left and right without even blinking an eyebrow.
In the end, Baili Xin didn't catch the ghost, but he did tire the female ghost out.
The female ghost slowly put down her hand and turned around slowly.
Her shoulders slumped, her head lowered, and she looked very depressed.
Hahaha, I am dying of laughter. How come this female ghost looks so scary but has such weak fighting power
With eyes that can't see, ears that can't hear, and nose that can't smell, one can only use hands to tentatively search for prey. Only two of the five senses are left.
Just as rows of “Hahahahaha” flashed in the barrage, the two arms that had originally drooped down and stretched out were slowly raised up.
The eagle claw-like arms slowly slid along both sides of the body and gradually reached the ears.
What is she doing? Is she going to pick her earwax
It's like picking your earwax, but you know what, it really does look a bit like it.
Hahahaha. Female giaogiao: Shut up, don’t I have any dignity
As if to allow the audience to see the ghost's funny movements clearly, the camera even zoomed in a little closer to the ghost.
Just as the female ghost's hands were about to reach for her ears, suddenly the two hands quickly moved the hair on the back of her head, revealing a hideous face!
That face appeared in the live broadcast room without any warning, occupying the entire screen!
Her skin was covered with ugly scars as if it had been scalded by boiling water, and her eyes were like the wide-open eyes of evil spirits in ancient books, one eye was big and the other was small, and the big eyeball was almost squeezed out of the eye.
The evil ghost just stared at the screen, his lips curled up, and his entire mouth suddenly opened into pieces, like an alien with its terrifying fangs and beak opened.
Ahhhh!
What the hell! What the hell!
Ah, I'm so scared, help! It's a ghost.
Oh my god, there is actually a face behind it, oh my god, this giaogiao is not scary enough for me!!!
Someone come, I am drunk driving, I am dead, I am going to die.
__________________________
The moment the female ghost revealed the back half of her face, her body suddenly became extremely flexible.
She let out a terrifying laugh, and this laugh was exactly the same as the sound that Baili Xin heard for the first time in the fog, the sound that almost led her off the cliff.
Her mouth split open, and suddenly it was divided into four long petals, each of which was covered with sharp teeth.
There is a sharp barb at the end of the octopus-leg-like tongue. The moment the tongue is stretched out, it pierces straight towards Baili Xin.
It happened in the blink of an eye.
Baili Xin jumped up and barely avoided the tongue. While he was still hanging in the air, the female ghost suddenly accelerated and attacked him in mid-air.
Baili Xin flipped over in the air holding the wolf cub and sat steadily on the back of the female ghost.
The moment the back of the female ghost's head lost its target, her body suddenly stopped moving.
Her hands fell back down to her sides, and the charred face raised itself up, stretched out its hands blankly, and took control again.
Baili Xin looked thoughtfully at Jiao Tan's helpless face.
Does it mean that the torn face will only take the lead when there is a field of vision behind you
Baili Xin thought for two seconds, then quickly flew backwards a few times and hid behind a big tree.
After searching for a while and not finding anyone, the female ghost stopped wandering around and gradually went away.
Only after the female ghost had completely left did Baili Xin come out from behind the tree.
s419m: Host, why don't you just kill them
Baili Xin: What if, I mean what if, Panpan's wish is about this red-dressed ghost? If I kill her, do you think the mission can still be completed
s419m: Uh, that makes sense. Master Host, you are so wise.
Baili Xin: I have been intelligent for a long time, but I didn't expect you to discover it only today. You don't seem to be very smart.
s419m:…
Forget it, the old man has turned into a little brat. People who are unsatisfied really have bad tempers. It’s better not to provoke him.
If we can't afford to offend, can't we hide? !
After the female ghost left, Baili Xin continued to investigate the village.
I originally thought that I would get lost in the fog because that was the boundary of the dungeon.
But what if that is not the boundary of the copy, but the wandering of a female ghost causing people who mistakenly enter there to get lost or even die
The appearance of the female ghost just now was the same as the one he had seen in the corner of the classroom before.
I guess they should be the same person.
For such a long time, there have only been legends of female ghosts in the village, but no one has been hurt. It seems that the female ghost is not a killer. She appeared in the mist to seduce those who entered the mist, most likely to prevent people from entering the village.
There should be a key clue in this village.
After leaving the square, he walked inside for a while and found a large dilapidated courtyard.
The yard had obviously been burned, the walls were burnt black, and the rows of houses in the yard had all collapsed, with almost nothing left.
Baili Xin had just come out of the yard when he saw the female ghost again from afar.
He quickly hid himself, found a very tall locust tree outside the yard and jumped onto it, hiding quietly in the dense leaves and looking down.
The female ghost who was chasing him just now was now sitting alone in the corner. Her evil ghost face was revealed, and she raised her arms and tightly wrapped them around her shoulders, as if she was hugging herself.
She curled up and leaned sideways in the corner, humming something.
Baili Xin found the melody of the song she was singing familiar. After thinking for a while, she remembered that she had heard this song from Panpan before.
The song he sang was not the folk song about the "land of tenderness", but a song that Panpan often hummed when he was playing in the yard.
The melody of this song is long and gentle, very much like a lullaby.
The female ghost sang in a very low voice, but her originally hoarse voice now sounded like nature’s music.
After the song, the ghost girl said softly, "Go to sleep, go to sleep, have a good sleep."
The voice was gentle and soft, as if coaxing a cute child into sleep.
Baili Xin squatted quietly on the tree, observing the movements of the female ghost below.
The female ghost sang for a long time before she stopped, but she did not fall asleep. Instead, she slowly stood up.
If the person she sang for so long just now was not singing for herself, then the person she was coaxing to sleep was the charred face behind her.
It seems that although there is only one body, the two faces represent two different souls.
After coaxing Charcoal Face to sleep, Evil Face stood up. She did not leave, but wandered back and forth in the burnt yard, sometimes bending down, as if looking for something.
While searching, he kept muttering to himself, "Strange, where is the hairpin?"
"My lovely hairpin, why can't I find it?"
"I really want to find a hairpin."
She searched for a long time but seemed to find nothing. Finally, she sighed helplessly, slowly walked to the corner and sat down again, continuing to hug herself in a weird posture, or rather, hugging the charred face behind her.
Baili Xin waited for a while, and when the female ghost didn't make any movement, he quietly jumped off the tree and left in another direction.
In the following time, he began to search one yard after another.
The village was not big, with only about twenty courtyards in total. It only took him three or four hours to search all the courtyards.
Although the village was deserted, it seemed that they were not well prepared when they left.
In some homes, there are still moldy food on the stove, and in some homes, there are still weathered clothes in the iron basin.
They might have left in a hurry, or... died without any preparation, so they never had the chance to go home to clean up the dishes or do the laundry.
Baili Xin slowed down until he searched the last yard.
He searched carefully in this collapsed room, not even leaving out any corners.
Only when he found everything he wanted did Baili Xin's originally solemn eyes finally reveal a clear expression.
s419m: Host, please tell us what you have discovered. Please don't keep us in suspense.
Baili Xin found a tattered bench and sat down, placing the things he found in front of him one by one.
A few books and notebooks.
Baili Xin casually opened the notebook, took out the piece of paper he found at school from his backpack, and placed the letter paper next to the notebook. The two somewhat similar notes were unusually harmonious.
This is a person's handwriting.
s419m: The handwriting on the notebook is more elegant, while the handwriting on the letter paper is more sloppy. It is probably written after an extreme mental breakdown.
So the owner of the letter went to the Gentle Land from this village? Could she be like the other women in the Gentle Land, who got married there
Not really, Baili Xin shook his head and directly denied s419m's guess, because this is not the next village, this is the land of gentleness.
s419m:? What
Separated by a mountain, two mirror images of the same village.
Don’t you think the yard we are in now looks a little familiar
s419m carefully observed this shabby yard where nothing could be seen for a while before he said uncertainly: It looks a bit like... Panpan's house
Baili Xin: Do you know why I went to help the Lin family two days before the wedding? Because at that time I could frequently go in and out of many houses, which was a good time to observe the land of tenderness.
Although I didn't get much at that time, it was also thanks to my good habit of observing at any time. When I first came to this village, I didn't recognize it at first because it didn't look like it.
The first thing that felt familiar was the geographical layout of the square and the burnt yard in the village.
No matter how I look at it, I feel that the layout of this village is really similar to the Land of Gentleness.
This area is full of courtyards where the villagers live. Baili Xin raised his hand and made a circle to the left. Then he put his arm down and pointed to the right. Aren’t the square and the burnt courtyard the locations of the village committee and the abandoned school
Remember the last time we went to school late at night, I saw a red shadow flash by in the corner of the classroom
I was very curious at the time, why didn't the ghost attack us? If she just flashed by, what was the significance of her appearance
I never figured this out, and I even spent the last few days looking for clues about the ghost in the village. But what if the ghost herself didn't know she was in the yard? There is a phenomenon in nature called a mirage, where we think we see something up close, but in fact it is just projected.
The female ghost I saw at that time was the reflection here. That's why the female ghost didn't make any movements, but just flashed by.
The action I saw at that time was the female ghost bending down to look for something.
s419m: You mean, this is the land of gentleness, the land of gentleness is here? And the place we are in now is Panpan's home. If this notebook was found in Panpan's home, then this notebook belongs to Panpan's mother? Then the person who left the letter asking for help in the abandoned school was Panpan's mother
But the time doesn't match. The abandoned school in the neighboring Wenrouxiang has been abandoned for more than 20 years, but Panpan's mother looks only about 30 years old. Didn't she say that she taught in the village committee compound
And if Panpan's mother asked for help, didn't you ask her if she needed help? She said she and her husband were in a free relationship and they loved each other very much, so how could it be a request for help
Baili Xin: The issue of time is just a time illusion commonly used in supernatural copies. Do you remember how the mute woman's mother-in-law commented on Panpan? She said Panpan was not an innocent little girl.
I guess the "not" in this sentence not only refers to "innocent", but also refers to the word "little". To put it simply, Panpan is not a little girl.
We are playing a supernatural book, so we need to broaden our horizons.
Escape System: If she is not a little girl, then she is a big girl? How old is she
Baili Xin: Thirty, forty, or fifty years old, any age is possible.
s419m: If Panpan is so old, what is the situation of Panpan's mother? It's so strange that she wants help but doesn't ask for help.
Baili Xin glanced at the sky above his head, and the corners of his lips suddenly curled up subtly on his delicate face. This is a bug that many people probably can't figure out no matter how hard they try, but this is actually not a bug. Didn't I tell you to broaden your horizons
In fact, all the strange phenomena in the land of gentleness have already given us the answers.
Baili Xin continued to flip through the notebook in his hand, accurately turning to a page very far back.
There is a passage written on it.
“xx+xy→1/2xx+1/2xy”
"How can I give birth to a boy?"
“Why does it have to be a boy?”
"Why are there only two combinations, xy and xx?"
"If there is YY, is it the most stable male chromosome?"
"It's obviously not one person's fault, why put the blame on one person?"
"If you want it this badly, then it's better for YY boys to be with YY boys."
The escape system stared at this seemingly hysterical paragraph: YY, how can there be YY? Isn't there only XY and XX...
Before the escape system finished speaking, s419m suddenly exclaimed: Damn, is this true? This is so strange and weird, it's not what I thought, host
The escape system is still confused: What is it, Brother M? You all seem to know it, but I am the only one who is confused.
s419m: All the babies born in the gentle land are boys, which means someone has copied her fantasy into reality. Is this something that humans can think of? Look at the last sentence of this page.
The escape system is still a little confused: YY man and YY man...
The escape system also screamed as it spoke: You, you mean, those women are actually men? !
s419m: Yes!
The entire escape system was stunned: Damn, this copy is so exciting, the whole village has changed gender? You can guess this? Lord Baili Xin, you are the one who cast the curse, right? Are you a devil? No, you are scarier than a devil, you are a demon!
Baili Xin rubbed his temple.
After dealing with the smart man Sun Ning for a long time, he felt that all these systems seemed to have become stupid.
He coughed lightly and explained: It wasn't something I thought of in a flash of inspiration. Do you remember that there was a wedding prank at the wedding today and I went to protect the bride
Before that, I had thought a lot about why the babies in the village were mostly boys. I thought it might be a problem with the village, and I also thought it might be a problem with the medication. Of course, I used the analytical method at the time and added normal biological knowledge to the conjecture, that is, the law of "xy+xx→xy", but I didn't find a very accurate answer.
The next day after Xiaobianzi and Sister Song buried the body, Xiaolin came back and they had a blind date and engagement ceremony in the afternoon.
The timing was too coincidental. As soon as the person died, someone else got married.
Then I noticed the bride's neck. She was wearing a high-necked dress on the day of the blind date and I didn't notice it, but on her wedding day she wore a wedding dress with an inappropriate scarf around her neck.
So when I was helping her at the wedding, I took the opportunity to untie her silk scarf and took a look. There was a deep wound on her neck. The fatal blow to Sister Song's man was the penetrating wound from the pigtail piercing his neck, which cut his throat.
The escape system was shocked: Are you saying that the beautiful bride is the man of that burly Song sister? ! ! ! Help, this world is still too much for me, please, let me go home!
s419m couldn't calm down for a long time. Finally, it was silent for several seconds and expressed its mood at the moment with four words: Wow, awesome.
What would Xiaobianzi think if he knew that the beautiful girl he was sleeping with might have once been a manlier than him
Escape System: ... maybe he would be more excited? After all, this former man is not only lying under him, but also pregnant
Blissin: …
Um, for a moment, I couldn't refute it? It seems to make sense
s419m was greatly shocked: "Tongmei, I suddenly realized that you seem to have the potential to be a pervert, and I suddenly felt a little panicked."
The escape system smiled shyly: Don't worry, brother M. Even if I am really a pervert, I must be a cute pervert. You will definitely like my pervertedness. Hehehe
s419m:…
Suddenly I didn't dare to speak and trembled.jpg.
There is something I don’t know whether I should say or not, but is Tongmei’s self-awakening a little off track
However, after the host said this, although it was very strange, many aspects of it were explained. No wonder such beautiful women/wives are so good at teasing men, because they used to be men. Isn't there a saying that only men know men's preferences best? It's really to the point.
Escape system: Let me explain. After the men in this village die, they are thrown into the well and planted like peanuts. If you plant a peanut in the spring, you will get a beautiful wife in the fall? But do these beautiful wives still have the memory of their previous lives as men? Do they continue to flirt with men after becoming women? Do they flirt with strangers who come here as guests and keep them? Do they spread the virus and turn more men into women
Oh, this is so weird. I feel like something is a little weird. Why are they doing this
Baili Xin: I haven’t figured this out yet, but all curses have reasons. As long as we find the reason, we can follow the clues to find the basis for the curse.
s419m: What about the pigs in the pigsty? Who did they become? Could it be that the men first became women, and then the women became pigs
Baili Xin shrugged: I haven't figured it out yet. There is a very important link missing in this matter, which is what happened more than 30 years ago.
s419m: What about Panpan’s current mother…
Baili Xin: Maybe it wasn't her original mother, but a man who turned into a woman. After all, the whole village was afraid of Panpan, but not Panpan's mother. This is unreasonable.
A village that has been abandoned for twenty or thirty years.
The school suffered a fire.
The villagers suddenly disappeared.
A banquet held in the square.
A female ghost with two souls in one body, one of whom had her face burnt to charcoal, and the other whose face seemed to have been scalded by boiling water.
If we arrange and combine these clues and ask you to tell the story, what kind of story will it form