Half Immortal

Chapter 31: Ankang Ancient Town (10)

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As soon as the words fell, Yan Mingguang's usual indifferent expression also changed slightly.

Looking back at the happy house in the aura, perhaps the most impressive place for the skinless girl during her lifetime, every detail is very clear, and the red silk beside the bed is even more eye-catching.

If they really want to finish the last scene of the girl's life, they must follow the role positioning, and carefully experience and find clues to get out.

—He and Yan Mingguang not only want to go to this wedding, but also go seriously.

In this not-so-spacious bedroom, Yan Wei sat on the bed and looked up, while Yan Mingguang leaned against the wall and lowered his eyes slightly, their gazes met in mid-air.

"..."

It was rare for Yan Wei to catch the flickering hesitation in Yan Mingguang's black pupils.

"Mr. Yan, we are going to have a wedding, don't you look forward to it?" Yan Wei said with a smile, "You said this kind of wedding in a remote ancient town, will there be some things like stepping over the brazier, throwing peanuts and red dates, and carrying the bride—I'm sure If you can memorize you, don’t worry about not being able to complete this trigger death. I haven’t experienced a wedding yet, and I didn’t expect to take a day trip to such a ghostly place. If we don’t succeed in breaking the game, we will change from a partner to a desperate mandarin —”

The person in front of him bent slightly, lifted the handle of the whip under his chin, and used the same method to silence his voice.

Yan Wei: "..."

He actually meant to play around. First of all, he believes that he can break through this retrospective aura and jokingly cheer up his emotions. Secondly, he is a gay man himself, but he has no feeling in front of Yan Mingguang, who seems to have no desires, and can still tease Yan Mingguang. .

However, this big shot was too fast, and he didn't even give him a chance to finish his sentence.

When Yan Mingguang let go, Yan Wei rolled his eyes silently, and changed the subject: "How do you know the existence of backtracking this aura?"

He and Yan Mingguang had only passed one copy, and they didn't understand many rules of the world inside the building. Yan Mingguang and he came from the first floor together, and they both knew about the same things.

He didn't know this so-called backtracking, why did Yan Mingguang just say it without a pause

"I knew it a long time ago."

"Very early? Before entering the building?" Yan Wei blinked, "Isn't there such a thing in the world outside the building?"

The man lowered his eyes slightly, as if he had glanced at the swallow necklace on his neck, but did not speak. Yan Wei didn't know if it was his own illusion—he felt that Yan Mingguang seemed to be confused.

Suddenly there was a noisy sound outside.

The voice moved from far to near, and within a moment, the townspeople who had pushed the two of them just now pushed the door and entered.

This time, some people also carried a long strip of red silk, with a flower ball on one side and a knotted buckle on the other side, which seemed to be used for people to hold in their hands.

One side of the flower ball was stuffed directly into Yan Wei's hand, and the handle side was stuffed into Yan Mingguang's hand.

Among the crowded and clamoring crowd in the house, the beautiful girl holding an umbrella and carrying a skinless ghost reappeared in the crowd. The townspeople seemed to be unable to see her, only seeing Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang who had gone through the wedding on behalf of the girl.

Amidst the noisy voices, the girl holding the umbrella frowned slightly, looking at them with bright eyes, and her pretty face was even more pleasing to the eye with a smile.

But the skinless ghost lying on her back bared his teeth at the two of them, his bloody face was extremely hideous.

The townspeople have already started booing.

"The groom is leading the bride!"

"What are you doing standing so far away, come closer, give me a kiss before going to swear an oath..."

"The bride holds the bouquet, ouch, it's about to fall! If the red silk falls off, it's a bad sign, and the marriage won't be done! Take it, hold it, and let the groom kiss you with the bouquet. We can finish the kiss." Let's go!"

"It's only raining today..."

"..."

Yan Wei lowered his head in disbelief, and glanced at the bouquet in his hand.

The man holding the other part of the red silk tugged the red silk slightly, his deep and indifferent voice was filled with a little gloating at the moment: "I will hold it well."

Yan Wei: "?"

"It won't become a desperate mandarin duck."

Yan Wei: "..."

This person actually used what he had just said to tease him! !

With a sudden force on the hand holding the bouquet, he directly pressed a small hole in the bouquet. His cheeks and earlobes turned red in an instant, and he stammered a little: "I, I... They said, said they want to kiss?"

If he had known that he was playing the role of the bride, he definitely wouldn't have said those words just now!

When they paused, the booing of the surrounding residents became more serious, and they laughed and told Yan Mingguang to hurry up. The girl holding an umbrella among the townspeople has been staring straight at them, but her gentle smile reveals a ghostly look.

Before this girl was alive, she must have been kissed by the groom at the wedding.

If they want to continue to find a solution, they must go through this scene.

Yan Wei knew the truth well, and knew that it was just a playful scene, but he still couldn't restrain himself, even his neck was turning red.

In front of him, the man flicked a long whip in his hand, and the whip was entwined with the red silk, connecting the two together. He took a step forward: "Offended."

The booing of the townspeople became louder and faster. The girl with the umbrella and the skinless ghost on her back looked at them and smiled brighter, but the bloody eyes of the skinless ghost on the girl's back became more gloomy, and it even made a low-pitched grinding sound. The sound of grinding teeth mixed with the townspeople's smiles was eerie.

Under the expectant eyes of the townspeople, the girl's joyful gaze, and the skinless ghost's sinister gaze, Yan Mingguang's eyes lighted up slightly, his head slightly lowered, and his lips gently brushed against the corners of Yan Wei's. Well then.

Yan Wei stopped breathing unconsciously. The jerkyness brought about by never being in love made him a little flustered, but the sense of crisis in the dungeon kept him rational, suppressing the panic and constantly paying attention to every detail.

The townspeople let out deafening laughter.

Afterwards, the townspeople began to urge them to go through the process and asked Yan Mingguang to lead Yan Wei to the hall.

Yan Wei walked behind Yan Mingguang with a bouquet in his arms and a whip tail, blushing and gritted his teeth: "Why am I the one who was assigned the role of bride?"

Yan Mingguang, who was walking in front, gave a faint chuckle.

Yan Wei: "..."

He could only pretend that what happened just now didn't happen, and kept looking around, even seeing the skinless ghost on the back of the umbrella girl clearly several times.

This girl is one of the girls who were made into a skin bone umbrella by the sorceress, and she is obviously from Ankang Ancient Town. And before being skinned and boned to make a bone umbrella, the last moment of her life was her wedding under a light rainy day.

In her memory of the last moment of her life, the townspeople of Ankang Ancient Town did not have what the cook Hu Ayu told Yan Wei—"people in the town have a bad temper". On the contrary, these people seem to be very friendly and warm.

Then why was this girl skinned and boned into a skin bone umbrella in the blink of an eye

They certainly can't wait until they see the scene of death before starting to break the game. If it really comes to the death scene, I'm afraid they will really experience the same death method as this girl, and it will be too late to break the situation.

The so-called breaking the game actually means very simple - that is to let the retrospective aura that has condensed and lingered die, that is, to make up for regrets.

If they can break through this illusion, they should also be able to learn why there is a skin bone umbrella in Ankang Ancient Town.

How to do it, which scene in this backtracking illusion is related to solving the regret of the skinless girl

Gambling area.

The betting time has expired. In the end, Yu Feizhou, Jiang Xiu, and Ning Yi had the highest betting ratio. Because Lin Zhen played cards too unreasonably, not many people dared to bet. The final betting ratio was similar to that of Yan Mingguang. Basically on par with other ordinary seven-tier players.

Only Yan Wei is 0.88% completely out of gregarious, the probability is surprisingly low.

Now that the betting has ended, the remaining players are either betting and have no intention of doing anything else, just want to squat here to see the result, or they are here to learn and analyze this rare copy of the rush-answer mode.

Most of the players' gazes were fixed on the projections of Yu Feizhou and Lin Zhen.

"...Yu Feizhou and Lin Zhen have entered Li Gui's backtracking illusion? This backtracking illusion is a new couple, so they are attracted together at the same time, so Yan and the newcomer he is leading should also enter the same I don’t know who will come out first from the two sides.”

"Whether Yan will be able to come out is not certain. Backtracking illusions cannot be cracked violently, and Yan still has a burden... But why did Yu Feizhou and Lin Zhen delay for so long!? The abilities of these two will not be nothing until now Bar!"

"The townspeople asked the groom to kiss the bride, but the two of them couldn't do it, and they didn't know how long they would have to wait..."

"In this illusion, the wedding is the last scene of Li Gui's life. If we want to decipher it, it should be a complete wedding - fulfilling the girl's last wish, right?"

"It's not necessarily true. It may be that the situation is broken by escaping death."

"This backtracking illusion seems to have a simple plot, but in fact there is a hidden danger, because this wedding has not given any clues at present. Whether the wedding is completed in its entirety is considered as fulfilling the last wish, or it is considered as fulfilling the last wish without being skinned and dismantled in the illusion. There is not enough supporting evidence. Going back to the illusion, one wrong step is death, do you really think that Lin Zhen and Yu Feizhou are just stuck in the act of the groom kissing the bride?"

"Isn't it?"

"They must have found out, and they didn't trigger death immediately if they didn't kiss, so they try to collect as many judgment conditions as possible here. This way, they don't need to consume props, and they can act with more confidence. Both of them have high strength and fight Without cooperation, he will definitely come out first. As for Yan, he not only fights alone, but also carries a burden. In this kind of two-person clearance problem, he is completely at a disadvantage. I don’t think he can come out alive.”

Inside the copy of Ankang Ancient Town.

According to the customs these townspeople said, the newlyweds had to walk around the house. Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang had already walked through most of the corridors in the house, and after turning a corner and walking through the last corridor, they were about to go to the hall for the most formal step of the wedding.

Yan Wei was thinking of a way to break the situation, and he remained silent.

The two turned a corner in tandem and walked to the open aisle. This house is not too big, this is already the last road.

The drizzle in the sky had already stopped when the two were leading the red silk away, leaving only a thin layer of dark clouds.

Surrounded by the townspeople who attended the wedding, they followed the two of them all the way, booing and congratulating constantly. Beautiful girls holding umbrellas were mixed in, and the skinless ghost on its back was particularly conspicuous. It kept opening its blood-filled eyes, staring fiercely at Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang, and its bloody face was ferocious.

Being stared at by it, Yan Wei always felt chills down his spine.

"Boom—"

Suddenly there was a thunderclap from the sky, and the sky that was already on a clearing trend suddenly turned dark.

Crash, clatter, clatter.

The torrential rain poured down, drenching the two of them in the open sky and the surrounding townspeople instantly. Only the girl with the umbrella, which the townspeople couldn't see, was safe under the heavy rain because of the umbrella, and the blood of the skinless ghost lying on her back was left drop by drop, mixed with the strong rain.

The townspeople showed joyful expressions.

"It's raining heavily! It's raining heavily! The mountain god favors me!"

"This wedding can't be carried out, this is the meaning of the mountain god..."

The townspeople closest to Yan Wei approached Yan Wei, grabbed Yan Wei's hands, and smiled happily: "Girl, it rained heavily at your wedding! This is the blessing of the mountain god. The mountain god likes you. The mountain god doesn't like you." I hope you lose your purity! This wedding can't take place, can't take place!"

Yan Wei's heart skipped a beat.

He asked, "What do you mean? Why can't it be done?"

"Why did the girl ask you knowingly?" The man seemed really happy, and he spoke very fast, "Isn't this a custom in Ankang Town? For an eighteen-year-old married girl, if there is heavy rain at the wedding, it means that the mountain god likes it, and the mountain god doesn't like it." He likes young girls to lose their purity, and the mountain god wants this beautiful and pure girl to accompany him."

"The people from the mountain temple are here! The sorceress is here, and she is here to take the girl to meet the mountain god."

"We can hold a new round of sacrifices. With the girl's company, the mountain god will continue to bless us with good weather, good harvest and good health..."

"Girl, why do you seem unwilling? Isn't it a happy thing to accompany the mountain god for the good harvest and well-being of Ankang Town? How can you be unwilling?"

Seeing that Yan Wei did not move, the expressions of the originally happy townspeople changed one after another—they began to become doubtful, angry, and puzzled. The originally kind faces of the townspeople became more and more terrifying under the polish of the torrential rain. Yan Wei actually didn't show any reluctance, but someone had already taken out a rope and slowly approached Yan Wei, obviously wanting to kill Yan Wei. Tied!

In the torrential rain, the sorceress slowly approached with an umbrella.

This sorceress seemed to be much younger than the sorceress they saw—this happened decades ago.

Yan Wei's eyes froze, he clenched the whip in his hand in the heavy rain, and said to Yan Mingguang through the long whip: [Mountain God, sacrifice, accompany... Do you think the same as I do?]

[Um.]

[It turns out that this town has such a peaceful name, I didn’t expect the customs to be so bloody,] Yan Wei raised his hand, wiped the rainwater from his face vigorously, staring at the raindrops sliding by his fingertips, [They believe that the mountain god can Bring them blessings, good harvests and well-being, and the way they worship the mountain gods is the skin and bones of young girls...]

An ancient town that lasted for an unknown number of years and was almost isolated from the outside world. They lived near mountains and rivers, and found a strange stone beside the mountain wall. The shape of the stone resembled a man holding an umbrella. The townspeople enshrine this stone as a mountain god, believe in rain, and regard umbrellas as totems.

And what do they worship the mountain god

It is an umbrella made of a girl's skin and bones.

All the girls in this town should be married at the age of eighteen. And if it rains heavily on the day when a girl gets married at the age of 18—it must be a torrential rain, it means that the girl is chosen by the mountain god, and she will be skinned and boned, and the skin and bones will be used as umbrellas to stay in the mountain temple. Worship the mountain god.

Everyone in Ankang Town thinks this is an honor, which is a good thing, because it represents the blessing of the mountain god.

But for the "chosen" girl, the long life has just begun on the wedding day, but because of an uncontrollable heavy rain, she was sent to the altar, and suffered the pain of skinning and bone tearing alive, and died in pain.

This is the origin of the skin bone umbrella.

There must be a rush to answer points here, but Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang did not rush to say it.

What Yan Wei has to do is to control the points, control the answer points of all players, not just him and Yan Mingguang. He kept the answers that were already available but not spoken out, and they were all useful.

What's more, breaking the situation is now the top priority.

The townspeople holding the rope were only a few steps away from Yan Wei.

The surrounding townspeople changed from being kind to ferocious. They urged, dissatisfied, and looked at Yan Wei cruelly. The sorceress also walked up to Yan Wei, smiled and said to Yan Wei, "Girl, come back to the mountain temple with me, it is your blessing to be chosen by the mountain god."

[She doesn't want to die.] Yan Mingguang said.

No matter from the reaction of the townspeople or the persuasion of the sorceress, it can be seen that after this skinless girl was selected, she definitely did not want to die.

That's why she had so much resentment after her death, forming this retrospective illusion. After being brought back to the mountain temple by the sorceress, this retrospective illusion will come to the last scene of memory—that is, the scene of skinning and tearing bones.

If the two of them didn't understand the girl's regrets before she died and did what she wanted to do, the consequences would be the same.

[Teacher Yan.]

[Um?]

[Her regret... An eighteen-year-old girl, she learned on the day of her wedding that she would be skinned and dismantled to death, and she was indeed sent to the rack by the usually kind townspeople and the sorceress herself. Do you think her regret is not being able to complete the wedding, marrying the man she likes, or not being able to escape and live?]

In the rainstorm, the only girl holding an umbrella still looked at them with a smile, with a gentle smile on her fair and fair face.

That might have been the best look she had ever seen—if not for the bloody skinless ghost lying on her back.

In just a few seconds between the two talking, the townsman holding the rope had already roughly pulled Yan Wei's hand, and was about to repeat everything that the girl had done before she died, and tied up Yan Wei and sent her to the mountain temple.

Yan Mingguang raised his hand and grabbed the townsman's wrist forcefully, pushing him away neatly.

This act of defiance completely angered all the townspeople.

They yelled and cursed, and surrounded them viciously.

Yan Wei took a deep breath.

The sound of rainstorm and yelling and cursing were mixed together, and there seemed to be the faint sound of the skinless ghost grinding teeth on the back of the girl who had been watching. The noise was intertwined, hitting Yan Wei's eardrums.

In the confusion, he took another look at the young girl holding an umbrella and carrying a skinless ghost.

[Yan Mingguang, do you believe me?]he asks.

Yan Wei dodged the hands of the villagers who were grabbing him, and took out an ordinary sharp dagger from the storage interface of the information panel.

Yan Mingguang just said: [Letter.]

[I don't think these two are her regrets.]

After saying that, Yan Wei grabbed the whip tightly, turned around with his strength, held the dagger in the other hand, and stabbed the blade of the dagger at Yan Mingguang with his backhand!