Demons and witches.
The word "devil" is no stranger to coming here. Chen Caixing has heard it from the local aborigines and NPCs. At this time, people follow God and regard the plague as God's punishment for the world, and it is the devil's invasion of the human body.
The plague is not properly recognized as a disease, so for the treatment methods, there are all kinds of strange methods, such as bloodletting, whipping are basic operations, and many people think that the infected person has a demon in the body, and in order to drive away the demon, they use foul-smelling feces to paste the wound.
The result is, of course, a quick death.
But the witch Chen Caixing heard it for the first time.
"Can you talk about witches?" Chen Caixing looked into the eyes of the man named Murphy when he spoke. When he mentioned witches, the other party's pupils flashed with fear, obviously not wanting to talk about it. Involuntarily, Xiaobaihua's upper body, a poor woman with a single parent, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and said softly: "My brother and I are not from here, the father of the child is gone, I am lonely, I know that the hospital recruits doctors, and I have no choice but to bring Came here with my younger brother to do chores in the hospital, my God, I don't know anything about this place, can you help me?"
Murphy struggled a few times, he was obviously scared, there were only a few people in the simple grass hut, but his voice was very low, and his expression was defensive, as if he was afraid of being heard by the ubiquitous demons.
"Last year, there was death everywhere, and it was because of witches, they brought demons. You were in the hospital, and it was the execution ground of witches, the city, the village, a lot of witches..." Murphy Thinking of that scene, he covered his face with trembling hands and couldn't speak.
Chen Caixing thought of the woods, with a pitiful and frightened look on his face, and tremblingly said: "God, it's terrible, we don't know anything, we just live by the woods..."
"Oh, God bless." Murphy knelt directly to the ground.
All right. The place where the witch was executed should be the woods.
The three members of the Murphy family were shaking like a sieve, kneeling on the ground and constantly reciting God's blessing. Chen Caixing still wanted to talk, but he could only pretend to be at a loss, covered his face and sobbed softly, but did not ask immediately.
"Sister, I'm so scared, what should we do?" Yuan Jiuwan asked helplessly leaning on Chen Caixing's arm.
Chen Caixing: As expected of his younger brother.
"Get out of there, witch... there are demons there," Murphy reminded.
Chen Caixing shook his head, his face full of bitterness, "I can't go, my brother and I can't leave, they won't let us leave." He looked at Murphy and begged: "Can you tell me more about witches? We are outsiders. , they shouldn't harm us."
"I don't know much. Last winter, I caught Barbara. She is a witch with very powerful power. She confessed many witches of her kind and hanged them in the woods, but, but..." Murphy recalled the body Trembling, unable to speak.
Chen Caixing didn't urge, but the poor and weak eyes filled with tears.
"They survived, and then they were set on fire, but these witches possessed by demons could not sleep, and the woods that were burned by the fire grew again, and then no one dared to go to the woods, where there was Barbara, there were demons sleep."
Murphy said in a mess, and Chen Caixing asked some more about Barbara.
Barbara is a great witch, the daughter of a city shoemaker, an old girl, unmarried in her forties, and has a black cat with an odd nature. During a prayer, a companion found her unusual and reported Barbara. Barbara was interrogated, identified as a witch, and executed in the woods.
These are all stories passed down by word of mouth, and Murphy can't tell in detail.
Chen Caixing thanked him and left some grains and bread for the family. The grains were bought at Jiati's house. After he came out, Chen Caixing rarely cooked, and he couldn't start the fire a few times at home, so everything was left in his backpack without moving.
Multigrains are corn-milled noodles that should be burnt to a mush that should keep the family through the winter.
The two came out of Murphy's house and passed through two villages along the way, but they were sparsely populated and everyone was confused. Two of them were infected with the plague and fell to the ground and no one dared to approach. Chen Caixing guarded Xiaojiu and stood far away.
"Don't be treated like a witch..."
They didn't wear masks, people died in the past, they were fine, and in case someone pointed it out, death is not the way to die.
Chen Caixing thought of Barbara and wondered if there were really witches in this world, or whether it was just because the other party was old and taciturn. When the plague came, he was identified as a witch. Killing the witch would eliminate the devil without death.
Everything was done carefully. Chen Caixing touched Xiaojiu's curly hair and said slowly, "We must do what we can to help people."
"Sister, I know that you are the best."
Xingxing has a soft heart, but he is not an irrational holy father.
"Good nine." Chen Caixing smiled.
It should be late autumn here, and it is almost winter. To get to the hospital before dark, Chen Caixing didn't delay any longer, he took Xiao Jiu's hand and walked back.
When I rushed to the hospital, it was already dark.
From a distance, the entire hospital stands alone on the hillside, with a distance from the city and the countryside. The two went to the hall first, they were not the first to come back, nor the last, and three others did not come back.
Chen Caixing swept the circle, Cheng Lifeng and Guo Yu were not there, and who else did not know. The girl group who went to the country with him came back early and sat complaining.
"My feet seem to have blisters, it hurts. I don't want to go to the countryside tomorrow, I want to go to the city."
"Several people fell ill today. Fortunately, we ran fast. It was terrible. In case of infection."
"Should we be okay with vaccinations since we were young? I feel itchy, probably because I slept in bed with fleas yesterday."
Chen Caixing noticed that the two were far away from the girl who said it was itchy.
"Is there anyone who hasn't come back? I'm hungry and tired. I want to go back to sleep."
"It should be a newcomer. The NPCs said that they will be back before dark at night. We will see what's going on in a while."
The speaker should be a veteran.
This is the words of a newcomer to try an NPC.
Does not come back before dark trigger the death condition.
But before it got dark, the three finally came back, Guo Yu, Cheng Lifeng and a girl.
Alexander was wearing a mask, and Chen Caixing hadn't seen the other person's face under the mask since he came in. At this moment, he used his bird's beak to sweep around the people, nodded his head, and said in a calm voice, "It's time to eat, everyone."
On the way to the restaurant.
Guo Yu babbled as he walked: "I thought Yuan Xing was difficult to deal with, but after today, I still think Yuan Xing is quite good and bold. You were not there yesterday and asked me to come find you together, that is, you are pregnant, otherwise you You can really try to chase after it.”
Cheng Lifeng glanced at Guo Yu.
"Okay, okay, I know what you mean, it's not that Yuan Xing is pregnant and it's not good to say these things." Guo Yu shook his head and sighed: "It's all women, why the gap is so big."
The restaurant is lit with oil lamps, and the light and shadow are drawn by the elders.
In addition to the players, there are also local NPC doctors, who are sitting clearly.
Guo Yu scanned the crowd, identified two figures, one big and one small, and pulled Lao Cheng to sit opposite them. Cheng Lifeng sat down with him, saw the primary school student opposite him giving him a wary look, and then leaned against his sister, who gently touched the primary school student's head.
Cheng Lifeng wanted to laugh a little.
"I won't rob your sister."
"You can't take it either." Yuan Jiuwan said proudly, then turned his head and asked pitifully, "Isn't it my sister?"
"Yes, yes, my sister likes Xiao Jiu, no one likes it." Chen Caixing coaxed the child.
Guo Yu owed the bar and said, "Child, you are a little sick."
"I think you talk too much." Chen Caixing glanced at Guo Yu lightly. Xiao Jiu is a little too dependent on him, but it is also because of Xiao Jiu's young age and family background, his mother protects him to death, and his father is domestic violence. Guo Yu doesn't know this, and he doesn't want to talk about it, but he doesn't like it being used by others' I'll go and say Xiaojiu.
Yuan Jiuwan showed a happy smile.
Chen Caixing touched the child's head.
"Yeah, it's my mouth." Guo Yu didn't care.
The prepared dinner was unbearable, and everyone continued to eat their own food. Guo Yu couldn't stop his mouth, he said while eating, "You don't know, the city is so dirty and smelly, I was almost poured out of a bucket of urine today. Fortunately, my master, I am agile."
Chen Caixing: ... The bread in my hand suddenly doesn't smell good.
"Old Guo, eat." Cheng Lifeng said.
Guo Yu saw that Yuan Xing hadn't eaten, he understood and laughed twice.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Chen Caixing put down the bread, took a sip of water slowly, and said slowly, "Sister, if you can't speak, just listen to your old attack. If you continue like this, I'm afraid you will be beaten."
Guo Yu: …
I don't even dare to look at Lao Cheng.
"Yuan Xing, I was wrong, really. Please stop talking."
Chen Caixing continued to eat the bread with an expressionless face.
After that, Guo Yu didn't dare to fart, and after eating the biscuits and filling the water, he was two meters away from Yuan Xing on the way back, and whispered: "Old Cheng, if I take back Yuan Xing, this woman is too difficult to deal with. Now, I'd rather take care of today's mangoes who are crying and crying a lot today."
"It's called Wang Guo."
"It's all the same." Guo Yu didn't care.
Back in the dormitory, I passed by the room where the dead last night. The ground was clean and there were no corpses. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you would have thought that no one had lived here.
"You said, will there be deaths in our room?" Guo Yu couldn't help but ask.
Chen Caixing glanced and asked Cheng Lifeng, "How did you endure it?" Without waiting for an answer, he nodded to himself, "I understand, it's love, it's responsibility."
Cheng Lifeng and Guo Yu:…
Blind and poor, they went to bed separately.
Chen Caixing suddenly said: "We went to the country today to find out the news. After the woods killed a witch last winter, one of the big witches was called Barbara." As the clues that Cheng Lifeng helped him find Xiao Jiu and others shared yesterday, Chen Caixing also He didn't hide it, he told them everything he knew.
"I'm going!" Guo Yu sat up straight, his eyes bright in the darkness, and said, "Oxen, Yuanxing."
Cheng Lifeng nodded and said, "Thank you. We didn't find anything useful today."
"There is still something to say." Guo Yu began to babble, "The roads in the city are very dirty, and there is excrement and urine everywhere. If you go there tomorrow, beware of someone on the second floor emptying a urine bucket, and there is a tavern with good wine, although the sausage smells. It smells a bit stinky but it's also meat…”
Totally a travel guide.
At the end, Guo Yu sighed: "You said that this game didn't give me a noble status. When my brother has meat to eat, you can also drink soup."
"Sister, as long as there is a peanut..." It won't make you so high. Chen Caixing said quietly.
Cheng Lifeng brought the topic back on track.
"So, there are witches in the woods."
"And player corpses." Chen Caixing added to keep up with the rhythm.
Guo Yucai remembered that Cheng Lifeng went to the woods last night, he was not in the mood to joke for a while, he frowned and said worriedly, "Old Cheng—"
"It's okay." Cheng Lifeng said lightly.
It doesn't sound like he's trying to be brave. Chen Caixing believed that the opponent also had life-saving cards in his hand. He thought of the silver cross he had bought, and didn't know how to use it.
"Sister." Yuan Jiuwan's voice was soft and sleepy.
Interrupting Chen Caixing's thinking, he regained his senses, patted Xiaojiu lightly and said, "Go to sleep."
"Where's your blanket?" Guo Yu suddenly found that the blanket that belonged to him was missing from the two of them.
Chen Caixing wrapped Xiao Jiu in his coat and said casually, "I did a good deed for you, don't worry, sister."
Guo Yu: ... He really can't beat the primeval star.
The room was quiet, and the night was a little cold. Xiao Jiu, who was holding Xiao Jiu in Chen Caixing's arms, was like a small heater, the heat was rolling, and he didn't notice the coldness, so he fell asleep in a daze.
The woods were pitch black, and the moonlight seemed to be unable to penetrate.
The rustling sound, the wet ground loosened, and a skeleton hand slowly protruded, the skeleton hand slowly clawed the soil, climbed out of the rotten head, and the dark eyes looked at the moonlight in the distance. The next row of bungalows .
Dark treetops.
A pair of green eyes moved quickly.
More and more carrion corpses were buried on the ground, struggling out of the soil and crawling towards the edge of the forest. The green eyes jumped in the treetops, and soon at the edge of the forest, there were four fresh corpses struggling out, looking in the same direction with all the rotting corpses behind them.
The two green eyes crossed an arc under the moonlight, and the agile figure quickly shuttled among the weeds on the ground. The moonlight shone on its body, and it was smooth and smooth. It was a black cat with a dark body.
"Meow."
There was a black cat squatting outside the window, with green eyes staring at the four people in the room.
The four people who were fast asleep didn't notice, 'creaking' - the wind blew open the window and made a small sound. The black cat nimbly jumped in from the window and landed lightly at the end of a bed. It walked gracefully on the bed with four claws, and slowly extended its claws—
The room temperature seems to be colder.
Chen Caixing had a messy dream. After a while, he was identified as a witch and was about to be executed, so he was hanged in the woods. At the time of his life and death, the NPC man who grew up in his aesthetic point jumped out and carried out some duel.
In the dream, he was fighting, and he was held in his arms by a man.
"Fuck!" There was a sudden sound from the room.
Chen Caixing woke up, but the man in his dream was still looking at him with affectionate eyes. He didn't say anything and looked at the source of the voice. Guo Yu shouted, "Lao Cheng, Lao Cheng, wake up and don't sleep, is there anything wrong?"
After a few seconds, Cheng Lifeng said, "It's okay for now."
Guo Yu jumped off the bed, turned on the flashlight, and Pili Bala said, "Just now there was a black cat standing beside your bed, when I woke up, my eyes met the black cat's mung bean eyes, scared me to death, I As soon as you shout, that black cat slips so fast, why are you sleeping so deadly?"
"I woke up, I just couldn't move." Cheng Lifeng's voice was still calm.
Guo Yu cursed.
"Now? Can you move?"
Cheng Lifeng: "Yes." He sat up propped up on the bed, and under the light of the flashlight, a string of dark and dark paw prints on the quilt, mixed with the soil and carefully looked at the color of blood.
The paw prints circled around where Cheng Lifeng fell asleep, leaving the most on his head.
Guo Yu saw it clearly, and cursed again.
"I brought a cross." Cheng Lifeng took out the necklace from his neck, and the silver cross glowed with pure white light.
Chen Caixing looked at it, and it really was a prop. So whoever enters the forest will die
What if the player didn't buy the item
Chen Caixing always felt that something was weird, but he couldn't think of anything for a while. There are so few clues now that the NPCs originally posted the quest 'When are they ready', how's it going? They did not specify who they were. Chen Caixing felt that it would not be the people who had developed drugs to treat the infection.
This is too exaggerated and goes against history.
And they didn't search all of the hospital. Alexander gave them a very tight time. All the players were arranged to go outside during the day. After they came back, they ate their meals and it was dark.
At present, they are the dormitory, the dining hall, and the hall.
I'm going to check this hospital tomorrow.
"Go to sleep if it's all right." Chen Caixing hugged Xiao Jiu and patted it, and the younger brother was half asleep.
Guo Yu: ! ! !
Is this all right
Maybe Guo Yu's eyes were too shocked, Chen Caixing yawned, and said slowly, "Isn't everyone all right, is it possible to stay up until tomorrow morning? You have to work tomorrow."
"It's okay, go to sleep." Cheng Lifeng said.
The parties all lay down again, and in the end, only Guo Yu was left holding his hair, and cursed again in a low voice.
All cows.
The next morning someone was ringing the bell outside.
The sky was still numb and bright, and a few people woke up and simply washed up. Arriving at the restaurant despite the chill of the morning, Chen Caixing subconsciously counted the number of people and said, "One less."
"Who is it? Not active in eating." Guo Yu replied.
Chen Caixing looked at the dining table with the bread that the stone can smash his teeth, who can be active with this meal.
"It's a girl, a newcomer, called Fang Pingping." Cheng Lifeng confirmed.
Guo Yu said proudly: "Our old Cheng never forgets the aspect of recognizing people."
"Then you are really happy." Chen Caixing joined in.
Guo Yu: ? ? ? How happy is he.
"Even if you turned into ashes, he still remembers you, how romantic." Chen Caixing said casually, seeing Guo Yu's question mark.
Guo Yu: …
He succeeded in getting Guo Yu, who was babbling, to shut his mouth and finish his meal quietly in the morning. Until he went to the lobby, the girl named Fang Pingping didn't show up. When Alexander didn't realize that there was no one missing, he said a few words about coming back before dark, the treatment for farting and so on.
Separate each other.
The veteran who went to the city yesterday is going to the country today. Everyone knows to look for clues. So Chen Caixing Yuan 90,000 and the girls who formed the group yesterday became a team again.
The girls looked like 'I hate that green tea bitch but I can't help it'.
Guo Yu exchanged biscuits and two of the girls for a place in the city.
So today the team of four.
Yuan Jiuwan was not very happy, and kept watching Chen Caixing. Chen Caixing didn't notice it. After all, Xiaojiu always sticks to him. He is paying attention to the road in the city.
Because the nobles in the city had horse carriages when they traveled, horse manure would be left on the road. I don’t know if it was not taken care of or if it was not done diligently. Anyway, a few steps are just manure.
Where residents live, there are also people who pour sewage on the road.
Stinks.
Chen Caixing felt uncomfortable and wanted to vomit, so he could only endure it. The plum sugar that Xiaojiu gave him couldn't be suppressed. After looking around, Guo Yu caught the residents and said Barbara, and the residents ran away in fright.
Especially staring at Chen Caixing, the only 'female' among the four.
Chen Caixing turned his head and stared at Guo Yu calmly.
Guo Yu's scalp was numb when he was seen, and he defended in a low voice: "I really didn't mean it, so why ask? If you go, Lao Cheng, I won't speak anymore."
"I asked, but it's no use, the same."
"Your handsome man's tricks are useless, hurt." Guo Yu wanted to change the way, but Yuan Xing still looked at him, he couldn't stand it anymore, and said, "You can see what you said, these residents are too It's hard to do, you can't even mention it, if you have the ability, you can ask, if you ask it out, you will be my boss, okay."
Chen Caixing stroked his hair and said, "It's okay to be a good sister."
"Okay!" Guo Yu said in disbelief.
He didn't even ask a man, and a woman from Yuan Xing was not afraid of being treated as a witch.
Seeing Chen Caixing take out the cross from his pocket, hold it in one hand, and lead her brother to meet the residents who were watching them.
"...God mercifully bless me and the children, but my husband..."
Yuan Xing, the woman began to hide her face and cry, her back was thin, her face was pale, soft and innocent and beautiful. Her brother was beside her softly and obediently told her sister not to cry, the demons are gone, the witches have been driven away and will not come back.
"I'm really afraid that they will come back. Fortunately, my husband who passed away left me with this. God's light warms me. I believe we can get through this."
"They didn't dare to come back. Barbara was executed, and her shoe store was smashed. No one would go there. You have God's love. I really envy you."
The women spoke in consolation.
Chen Caixing's eyes turned red, he shook his head weakly, touched his stomach with one hand, and said softly, "I just want to preserve my bloodline for my husband, no matter how hard or difficult it is, I will get through it, but I often have nightmares, dreaming... "
He, like a virgin martyr, exudes the holy light of a widow.
"You are such a strong and good woman, and your husband will thank you."
"Take care and remember not to go near the corner of West Street."
…
The front that the women couldn't see, Chen Caixing said with a cold and decisive face: "The corner of West Street. Let's go, good sister."
Guo Yu from the beginning to the end:…
For a moment, he really felt that Yuan Xing's husband was dead.
… good sister.