Half Immortal

Chapter 32: Ankang Ancient Town (11)

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Yan Mingguang did not hide.

Yan Wei stabbed the dagger neatly and quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the dagger pierced into Yan Mingguang's lower abdomen.

The moment the dagger completely sank into Yan Mingguang's lower abdomen, all the surrounding chaos froze. The torrential rain stopped at this moment, the sound of rain and noise seemed to be swallowed by something, and everything became quiet.

Behind the crowd, the young girl with the umbrella and the skinless ghost on her back paused slightly, and the originally gentle and moving smile slowly disappeared.

she cried. And on her back, the ferocious skinless ghost actually withdrew its ferocious expression, and smiled on its bloody face.

Yan Mingguang's lower abdomen, which was pierced by the dagger, did not flow out any drop of blood.

The next moment, Lou's notification sounded in the minds of the two of them.

[Congratulations to the player who successfully cracked the regret of the ghost, and received a reward: perception 1, points 1. ]

An additional reminder sounded in Yan Wei's mind: [Congratulations to the player for obtaining the item dropped by the dungeon: flower ball. Permanent props, available in any dungeon. The red satin woven flower ball is entrusted with the last goodness left by the girl's wedding. It can heal wounds, and the healing range is all injuries that are not instantly fatal. Each dungeon can only be used twice. ]

A grotesque scene flashed in front of the two of them again, and when everything returned to calm, Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang opened their eyes again, and in front of them was the familiar underground cave.

There was still only a faint light around, and some cool wind from the cave below. The place where Yan Mingguang was stabbed by Yan Wei was unscathed. Yan Wei held a shiny dagger in one hand, and the long whip wrapped around his wrist in the other hand.

- They have gone back to the illusion.

Beside them, Lin Zhen and Yu Feizhou were still there. However, both of them stood there with their eyes closed, occasionally moving their hands, obviously still in the illusion of backtracking.

Thinking of the scene just now, Yan Wei thought to himself that it was true.

During the wedding between him and Yan Mingguang, one was substituted into the role of the bride—that is, the skinless girl before she was alive—and the other was substituted into the role of the groom. From the time the two walked out holding the red silk satin, Yan Wei felt that something was wrong.

The reenactment of a scene of a ghost's life requires two people. If Yan Wei hadn't passed this hurdle himself, when he got to the scene of death, he would experience the same death method as the girl, which is normal, but what about Yan Mingguang

According to logic, the two of them failed to crack the retrospective illusion, and both of them would die from skinning and tearing apart, but Yan Mingguang's role is indeed the girl's newlywed husband. The girl's backtracking illusion will not pull an insignificant character into it, just like those townspeople, the insignificant characters are generated in the illusion, and will only repeat what the girl saw before she was alive.

The newlywed husband must be a role related to breaking the game, so two people are pulled in.

From this point of view, it seems that the solution is obvious-that is, to continue to complete the wedding despite the obstruction of the townspeople and the obstacles of the witch who wants to bring people back to the temple.

When Yan Wei was stuffed with a bouquet and learned that she and Yan Mingguang were going to complete the wedding together, she had such thoughts.

But when the two of them came out, when the torrential rain began and tragedies began to happen, he gradually understood the role of the "newly married husband". Especially at the moment when the townspeople in Ankang Town surrounded him to arrest him, he was completely sure of his conjecture.

Regardless of what the townspeople said, their attitudes towards Yan Wei, or the reaction of the sorceress, in the eyes of those people, it seemed that the only obstacle in enshrining the "girl"—that is, Yan Wei at that time—to the mountain god It's the girl who doesn't want to. From the beginning to the end, the "girl"'s husband was never mentioned in the scolding.

An eighteen-year-old newly married girl was about to be enshrined with a stone by the townspeople because of the sudden downpour. Her reaction at the time was unwilling.

If she didn't want to die, she definitely wouldn't follow the witch to the mountain temple obediently. She must have tried to escape.

Then she must turn to her new husband for help.

But the townspeople and the sorceress didn't see that man at all. why not

Because her husband... didn't help her. Perhaps not only did he fail to help her, but he even helped other people in the town, sending the girl to the rack with his own hands, and letting the girl innocently accept the fate of being skinned and dismantled.

That's why the pretty girl was smiling all the time, while the skinless female ghost, who symbolized the girl's after-death appearance and lay on the girl's former appearance, had a ferocious face.

She was watching them all the time.

Before she was alive, she smiled and looked forward to the wedding, but after her death, she saw Yan Wei, who represented her before her life, and Yan Mingguang, who represented her new husband before her death, they were vicious, wishing to tear the red silk that tied them together.

Her regret is not that she failed to live, nor did she fail to complete the wedding, but that the husband who pushed her to the rack did not die together.

Combining the secrets about the ancient town they learned in the retrospective illusion, where is the strangeness of Ankang Ancient Town, and why these white umbrellas made of skin and bones of these girls exist, there is a complete logic chain.

After Yan Wei briefly said this to Yan Mingguang through the long whip, there was no notification sound from Lou in their minds.

This clue must have at least one quick answer point, which is related to the bloody customs that have lasted for many years in Ankang Ancient Town, and may even have more than one quick answer point. But even though they saw it on the spot and communicated in their hearts through the long whip, the prompt for the answer score still didn't sound.

But in the early morning, Yan Wei informed Yan Mingguang with a whip, and then Yan Mingguang removed the bed board of the dead player, and the rush answer points were counted on both of them at the same time.

Yan Wei had an idea in his mind.

The calculation of this quick answer score requires certain practical actions—speaking out or doing it. And as long as it is said and done, if two or three people cooperate to come up with it, then even if it is said or done, there is only one person, and the answer points will be counted for everyone.

But if everyone who knows the clues just knows it and doesn't express it, then Lou won't judge them to get the quick answer points, and the quick answer points are still irrelevant.

The quick answer points are still there, as long as Yan Wei or Yan Mingguang utters all the inferences just now, they can get quick answer points at any time.

But Yan Wei didn't do that.

[I will save this quick answer point, Mr. Yan, is there any way you can drag these two people out?]Yan Wei glanced at Lin Zhen and Yu Feizhou, [With their strength, it's only a matter of time before they break the game, I don't want them to get the answer points first...]

[I'll try to see if I can wake it up directly. It will be much easier to crack the illusion from the outside.]

Yan Mingguang just picked up a stone and planned to hit Lin Zhen's forehead, but Lin Zhen suddenly opened his eyes, and said the unfinished words in the illusion: "... Hey, you turned off the projection angle, right? I It's also closed, you can kiss quickly. Tsk, can't this illusion be a little more violent and bloody, what is a peaceful wedding—"

His voice stopped abruptly.

Lin Zhen blinked to confirm the scene in front of him, and Yu Feizhou also opened his eyes.

These two people were automatically kicked out by the backtracking illusion.

"Yan Wei? Yan Mingguang?" Yu Feizhou frowned slightly, "I just received a reminder that this backtracking illusion has been completely cracked and disappeared, and Lin Zhen and I were automatically ejected. Did you break it?"

Lin Zhen raised his eyebrows: "Are we coming out now? What a waste of all the mental construction I've done just now. How did you come out? Tell me to come and see?"

Yan Wei still planned to keep the points for this part of the answer, and the lie came out: "What is the backtracking illusion? We don't know why we arrived in the ancient town. Give Yan Mingguang a kiss, and we'll be back."

His pale brown pupils shone with sincerity, and he looked cute and clever.

Lin Zhen frowned: "You kiss Yan Mingguang? Why are you all the role of groom, but I was assigned the role of bride??"

On the side, Yan Mingguang just slightly raised his eyes to look at Yan Wei, but he didn't expose Yan Wei's words that contradicted the roles of the two of them.

Yu Feizhou smiled: "Then it seems that you may have stumbled into this retrospective illusion by mistake." He thought that Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang didn't understand, so he briefly introduced the existence of the retrospective illusion.

Yan Wei pretended to be as serious as listening to it for the first time.

After the few people left the illusion, they continued to walk in silently. Yan Wei paid special attention to it. Just now, Lin Zhen and Yu Feizhou probably wanted to get through the scene of the bride and groom kissing the bride, and they didn't want other players to see them, so they turned off the projection angle of the gambling building. After that, the two never touched each other. The black ring should have never been opened again.

In other words, what will happen at the bottom of the well now, except for the four of them, the other players in the world in the building don't know.

With Lin Zhen's character, he can't wait to see others suffer in the same way, so there is no hidden danger.

Yu Feizhou... In the beginning, both he and Yan Mingguang couldn't see through this person, but after a short time together, it seems that Yu Feizhou is too powerful to think about conspiracies and intrigues at all—it's exactly what Lin Zhen said. Exactly the same, overly naive Heart of Mary.

It's not that he can't see through, it's that this person really has nothing to see through.

Yan Wei came to a conclusion—except for him, the three people at the bottom of the well would not have any problems.

He understood in his heart, thinking that after he found the witch, he needed to come forward. The projections of the four of them were all turned off, so he didn't have anything to pretend.

After breaking through the backtracking illusion, they never encountered any danger again, but there were more and more forked roads. Even with Lin Zhen's arrows to explore the road, there were too many deep passages. not enough.

Yan Wei took a flashlight and looked ahead, and there were several forks in the road.

"I can't try it anymore," Lin Zhen spread his hands, "The echoes of the arrows are almost the same."

Yan Wei bumped Lin Zhen with his elbow: "You use the invitation letter to exchange some things for attracting and repelling insects at the mall."

"Why do you want me to change your cleanliness? Find your Yan Mingguang."

"I'm not a clean freak," Yan Wei chuckled, "I'm here to find a way, we come up with ideas, shouldn't you send out some invitations?"

"Hey, do you have a way? Tell me and listen."

Before Lin Zhen finished speaking, Yu Feizhou stretched out his hand and handed out two cans of medicinal powder to Yan Wei: "If you have an idea, try it out. I exchanged it just now, and it doesn't cost any invitation letter. It doesn't matter if it doesn't work. Lin Zhen Zhen speaks freely, don't take it to heart."

Yan Wei took the powder and said, "Thank you."

He didn't delay, put on a pair of brand new gloves, hung the flashlight on the pocket of the windbreaker, squatted down and started to work.

Lin Zhen took a look at Yu Feizhou: "Are you quite talkative?"

"I just think Yan Wei is quite obedient, and he's not stupid." Even in such a dark and treacherous environment, Yu Feizhou's voice was still clear and peaceful, "Let him try it. If it fails, a few invitation letters are very helpful to me." It's nothing to say. Yan Wei's strength is not high, we can protect as much as we can."

Lin Zhen: "..."

He put away the longbow, crossed his hands and crossed his arms, and said inexplicably, "Be nice?"

"yes."

"Not stupid?"

"Yup."

"The strength is not high?"

"...?"

"shelter?"

"What exactly do you want to say?" Yu Feizhou was taken aback.

Lin Zhen just smiled playfully.

Yan Wei had already sprinkled insect-inducing powder at several crossroads on the ground. He got up slowly and said, "The bottom of this well is wet, and it's underground. We saw a lot of scattered insects along the way. There will only be more in the crevices of the rocks, and there must be a large number of insect nests here. I sprinkled insect-inducing powder at every fork in the road, and a large number of insects will come out from all directions after a while."

As he spoke, he had already opened the can of insect repellent powder, and first sprinkled some casually on Yan Mingguang's body. The other party didn't move, and just let him talk like that.

After dispersing, Yan Wei began to sprinkle it on himself with a look of disgust and helplessness, and then said: "After they are attracted, they will feel the insect repellent powder on us and disperse, and we can see them returning to their nests." track."

Lin Zhen also sprinkled some on himself in doubt: "Attract them and drive them away, are you playing with insects?"

"..." Yan Wei gave the insect repellent powder to Yu Feizhou again, "They must have instinctively returned to their nests when they left, and we can roughly see which fork in the road has the least insects - that place must have the least number of insect nests hidden. Here The insects here are not evil, they are just ordinary insects that are afraid of people. If the sorceress often goes back and forth at the bottom of the well, their nests must be avoided in places where people often go back and forth."

Powders that are sprinkled on the ground to attract bugs have attracted many different types of bugs.

The four of them have even seen ghosts before, so this kind of bug that can't hurt people naturally can't scare them.

Sure enough, as Yan Wei said, after the bugs crawled out in groups, when they got close to the four of them, they were driven back a little by their insect repellent powder. Yan Wei didn't need to speak, Yan Mingguang took out a few matches, lit them and threw them on the place where the insect-inducing powder was sprinkled, destroying the powder.

The attracted bugs followed their instincts and spread out, only the bugs crawling along one path were the least visible to the naked eye.

Without saying a word, Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang walked forward holding the whip.

Yu Feizhou's expression changed again and again. From the beginning, he just let Yan Wei try as he pleases, but later he was surprised when he found out that Lu really came out, and finally smiled: "You are so smart. Let us go ahead? If something happens, we can protect you."

Before Yan Wei could speak, Yan Mingguang, who was walking in front, seemed to be pulling the whip faster, so he had no choice but to speed up his pace.

They encountered several forks again, and Yan Wei repeated this method to choose the road. The footsteps of the four people staggered back and forth, slightly echoing in the narrow cave, but after a while, a low and hoarse singing voice suddenly came from ahead.

"The stars are up, the moon is up..."

"This is a mountain and river bestowed by God, this is a fertile field, this is a blessing from heaven..."

"Let it rain, let it rain, the crops will grow..."

"We put up our umbrellas..."

"..."

"The stars are up, the moon is up..."

"..."

— This is the voice of the witch.

Yan Wei and the others didn't need to communicate at all, they all subconsciously put their footsteps on the lightest footsteps and moved forward quickly.

This time, they didn't have to go far at all, the witch's singing became louder and louder, and they saw that the road ahead was getting wider and wider, and finally stopped in front of a huge cave.

Yan Wei stood behind Yan Mingguang and had a clear view of the situation ahead.

This place seems to be the innermost part of the cave at the bottom of the well, and there is no other road in sight except their road, and the end of the road is where the sorceress is.

The big cave was decorated like a house, with a few candles lit all around, but perhaps because of fear of lack of oxygen, only a few candles were lit, and the candlelight swayed slightly in the underground wind.

The place where the sorceress stood was in the middle of the cave, and there was a desk in front of her, and knives and tools of various sizes were neatly arranged beside the table. And the center of the table...

——It was human skin spread out flat, and human bones still stained with blood.

"The stars are up, the moon is up..."

"..."

"We put up our umbrellas..."

The sorceress sang this song dedicated to the mountain god with a solemn face, holding some material in her hand, as if she was dealing with human skin.

[She is making a skin bone umbrella. It seems that she went down this time not only to drag out the skin bone umbrella that ran back again.] Yan Wei grabbed the whip and said to Yan Mingguang in her heart, [She still came down to make a skin bone umbrella umbrella. This skin and bone... should belong to the player who died yesterday.]

[What are you going to do? ] Yan Mingguang asked him.

After going down the well, although the two of them didn't say anything, Yan Mingguang's trust in Yan Wei was obviously higher.

He seemed very reassured by Yan Wei's behavior, and believed without a doubt that Yan Wei must have a plan in mind.

Yan Wei did have a plan in mind.

This is what he started planning from the moment he knew the answering mode appeared.

On the other side, Lin Zhen stared intently at the sorceress, his dark red pupils were full of curiosity—he seemed to be quite interested in the process of making an umbrella, and enjoyed watching it.

Yu Feizhou hid behind the rock wall like Yan Wei. He looked at Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang. Although he didn't speak, his eyes were obviously asking Yan Mingguang if he wanted to make a move.

[Teacher Yan, I need a living witch. We have two girlish finger bones, even if there is a death trigger caused by a bone umbrella, it can resist a time or two, which is completely worthwhile.]Yan Wei raised the corners of his mouth slightly,[Hands off, we tied up the sorceress.]

The next moment, the long whip tied to Yan Wei's left wrist shook, and the tail of the whip was retracted. Yan Mingguang grabbed the handle of the whip, raised his foot and turned over, and threw out the long whip with a leap!

With the rustling of the long whip, the tail of the whip fell, and it accurately swung away the tool in the witch's hand.

"Yan, why did you attack so quickly? What if there is a death trigger?" Yu Feizhou also ran out immediately, "Yan Wei, you hide behind first, Lin Zhen and I will help Yan Mingguang—"

He froze abruptly.

He let the young man who was hiding just now walk forward without hesitation, and he took out a thick hemp rope from nowhere. After Yan Mingguang slammed the witch on the ground, Yan Wei also ran to the witch, and neatly tied the rope to the witch.

The candlelight shook even more because of the airflow driven by their movements, but the sorceress just looked at them in panic, her old body didn't have much resistance, Yan Wei easily tied up the sorceress completely.

Seeing that the sorceress was about to open her mouth, Yan Wei was worried that the old thing would give them a quick answer point if she opened her mouth, so she grabbed something from the table, rubbed it quickly, and stuffed it into the sorceress's mouth.

"Um... um... um..."

The sorceress was so blocked that she could not speak, Yan Wei saw clearly that the thing he had crumpled just now was a piece of human skin still stained with blood on the side of the table.

Yan Wei: "..."

Luckily he was wearing gloves.

Yu Feizhou looked at Yan Wei, and his tone was full of surprise: "Yan Wei, you...how do you..."

Lin Zhen seemed to have no intention of making a move from the beginning to the end. At this moment, he folded his arms leisurely and looked down at the tools on the table: "It's too rude to the elderly, and it doesn't respect the old and the young at all. Oh, what a pity, you fight I won't be able to learn how to make a skin bone umbrella without the sorceress, this thing looks pretty fun... "

Yan Wei didn't bother to talk to Lin Zhen, a psychopath.

He tightened the body tied to the sorceress, and pulled the sorceress who was tied up and stuffed with human skin in her mouth, mmmmmm, up from the ground.

The obedient and docile expression just now completely faded away at this moment, his eyes were dark, and his tone was decisive: "We have also finished investigating the bottom of the well. To be honest, I have already guessed that there are clues at the bottom that are almost inseparable. Just now we entered I also know the origin of the skin bone umbrella in the backtracking illusion. And this sorceress should know all the details I guessed, and even more.

He looked at Yu Feizhou and Lin Zhen, and vividly interpreted his denial of people: "You two, people don't talk dark words, not only do I have to bring the witch, after I go up, I also need you to help me make a suit with the witch." The matter—I will take the initiative to deal with Jiang Xiu. You promise, you will have three points for answering questions. But if we can't reach an agreement now... "

Yan Wei casually picked up a sharp knife on the table, and pointed the tip at the carotid artery of the witch's neck.

He smiled and said, "If we can agree, the four of us have three points. If we can't agree, I will kill the sorceress right now, and Yan Mingguang and I will have the three points."

Yu Feizhou: "???"

Yu Feizhou was completely stunned.

His gentle face was completely dull at the moment, and his eyes fell on Yan Wei empty-handedly, both shocked and confused.

Lin Zhen, who had expected this scene a long time ago, picked up the tool for making a human leather umbrella and played with it, gloating quietly: "How cute?"

Yu Feizhou: "...."

"Not stupid?"

"...."

"The strength is not high?"

"...."

"shelter?"

"...."

Lin Zhen put down the knife in his hand, turned his head and glanced at Yan Wei who was holding the sorceress and Yan Mingguang who was guarding at the side, then looked at Yu Feizhou's expression, sighed, laughed again, and said: "Look Seeing your reaction, I feel balanced and very happy."