Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing both lost their minds, arguing and shouting like crazy, their voices piercing people's nerves.
Chen Yang was just planning to take the young man into the cave to investigate, and then come out to ask Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing in detail to see if he could find out anything, when he suddenly heard two muffled sounds from behind him, one after the other, which occurred almost within two or three seconds.
Then came Zhao Yuan’s scream of horror.
Then there was the sound of something heavy falling and the strong smell of blood.
Chen Yang turned around quickly and saw the two men who had been screaming and accusing each other of lying just a moment ago fell to the ground, with large amounts of bright red blood gushing out of their neck arteries.
The scene of my sister's death suddenly penetrated my heart.
Chen Yang's breathing stopped for a moment, his face turned pale and his body shook.
A cane was pressed against his back to prevent him from falling backwards.
The piece of iron in Lin Yue's hand kept dripping blood, some from her pierced palm, and more from Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing's necks.
Zhao Yuan witnessed the murder scene without warning, and was shaking like a sieve: "You, you killed them!"
Lin Yue lowered her eyes and said nothing.
"The blood flowing in their bodies is red, nothing unusual has happened," Zhao Yuan pointed at Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing lying in a pool of blood, his eyes widened and his face full of tears, "They are all human beings, they are all human beings!"
"So what?"
Lin Yue raised her head, her bulging eyes full of madness: "Ah, so what?"
Crazy.
This woman is crazy!
Zhao Yuan's sense of crisis exploded. He subconsciously ran towards Chen Yang, staggering, and pounced on him.
Then he was knocked to the ground by the cane.
Chen Yang calmed down after this incident and felt powerless about the deaths of Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing. He looked at Zhang Yan without saying a word.
Zhang Yan couldn't pretend to be invisible anymore, so he finally spoke up, looking like he didn't approve of Lin Yue's move: "There are shadows around the feet of these two people, ghosts don't have that, why did you attack?"
Lin Yue used her free hand to gather her hair around her ears. Her attitude was much more restrained than when she was with Zhao Yuanshi. "They do have shadows, but there are doubts about them, right? If they are not ghosts, then can they not be monsters? Or something else? Who knows."
Zhang Yan frowned: "But you can't just kill them without investigating anything. Now you see, they are both alive, two lives."
"check?"
Lin Yue stepped on the blood-stained dead leaves and laughed coldly: "How to check, I have checked the cave, there is nothing unusual inside, Zhang Yan, you also went in, don't you know?"
"Why the hell are you pretending to be a gentleman? I killed these two suspicious useless newcomers, and you are so happy!"
Zhang Yan's thoughts were exposed and his face turned extremely pale.
Chen Yang saw Zhang Yan's disguise gradually falling off. He pursed his lips and turned to look at Lin Yue: "At least let Zhou Xiaoxiao and A Wu meet."
Lin Yue looked at him for a few seconds, her tone no longer hysterical, and she took a deep breath and said, "Awu only brought her here, how could he know what happened afterwards."
Chen Yang's face was stiff and cold: "We'll talk about it when we meet."
"Kill them all."
Lin Yue looked at the corpse at her feet and smiled nervously: "They themselves can't explain why they hid in the same cave for a long time without knowing each other. Who can they blame?"
"It is better to kill someone by mistake than to let him go."
Lin Yue smeared the iron sheet and the blood on her hands on the tree: "I must complete the mission and go back."
After saying that, he left.
Zhao Yuan stared at Lin Yue's back, his teeth chattering. He knew that this was not the real world, but a mission world where ghosts existed. Those of them who were doing the mission could die at any time.
But he still couldn't accept that two grown people died in front of him.
"That woman killed them so quickly, was she feeling guilty?"
Zhao Yuan was also going crazy: "She is the monster."
Zhang Yan squatted down and checked Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing's breath. When he was sure they were dead, he breathed a barely perceptible sigh of relief.
There was something wrong with the time these two people disappeared, and they couldn't be allowed to live.
It’s just that Lin Yue was killed a little too early.
He still had a few questions to ask.
Chen Yang kept staring at Zhang Yan and caught his instant sigh of relief, causing his scalp to tingle.
Zhang Yan and Lin Yue didn't kill him because he was cursed. Maybe they thought it was difficult to kill him? Is it still useful
The curse is spreading, everyone is killed, who will find the clues
Chen Yang has been on guard against them since he got on the boat. He has been careful and the threat is not that big. If they attack him, he will take self-defense.
"Will the corpse disappear on its own after just lying there for a while, like in the game?"
"It won't disappear." Zhang Yan said, "This mission world is full of people, not NPCs. We came in with our ID numbers and are citizens here. If we die, we will stay here."
Chen Yang resisted the urge to pull out the ID number from his chest, break it and throw it away: "Then bury them."
Zhang Yan and Zhao Yuan were dealing with the body outside, while Chen Yang pulled the young man into the cave, which was dark inside.
The flashlight on the mobile phone can reveal almost everything.
This cave is smaller than Chen Yang imagined.
Chen Yang took the boy's cell phone and walked around the cave for a long time, not leaving any corner untouched.
He found the small pink diamond that had fallen from Zhou Xiaoxiao's shoes, and the fabric of Huang Qing's clothes that had accidentally been scraped off the stone when he climbed in.
This is even more weird.
Two people really stayed here, but they didn't know each other.
"There's nothing wrong with the people, there's nothing wrong with the cave, so what's the problem?" Chen Yang held the pink diamond and the piece of scrap of cloth, talking to himself. He felt a layer of fog floating in front of him, and the truth was behind the fog.
The boy said impatiently: "Let's go."
Chen Yang stuffed the two things into his pocket in disappointment and returned the phone to him: "Did you see Lin Yue doing it?"
The boy didn't answer.
Chen Yang knew the answer, which was seeing: "Your leg is injured, don't mess with her, self-protection comes first."
Boy: "Why would I mess with her?"
"It's hard to say, but you should be worried."
Chen Yang pointed to his head and said, "There are people with problems here. Sometimes you can irritate them just by looking at them a little more."
The boy turned off the flashlight on his phone, and the light disappeared. His voice rang out in the darkness, without any emotion, and was as cold as metal.
“You know a lot about mental disorders?”
Chen Yang said: “I don’t understand.”
"It's just that the books I read are a bit miscellaneous." He felt a little chill on his back for some reason, so he said another sentence.
The patient's family bought it for him and gave it to him after he finished reading it. He can read whatever he has.
Zhang Yan's voice was heard outside.
Chen Yang walked out of the cave: "Is the body buried?"
"I had no tools, and could only find sticks nearby. The pit was too shallow to bury the body, so I covered it with grass."
Zhang Yan was sweating a lot: "How are you guys? Did you find anything?"
Chen Yang talked about the pink diamond and the fabric.
Zhang Yan looked thoughtful.
Zhao Yuan, who was sitting on the ground, jumped up and laughed with red and swollen eyes: "No lie, they didn't lie!"
"They died without knowing why..." He staggered forward, "People who came in from the real world have become inhuman, and are all unconscious. This place is too scary, and there is no hope. I have completed this mission with a narrow escape, but there will be next time. I can't live well anymore, and I will never live well again..."
The deaths of Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing hit Zhao Yuan hard. He no longer participated in activities with Zhang Yan and Lin Yue, but followed Chen Yang.
To Zhao Yuan, Chen Yang, who was cursed and could turn into a monster at any time, was not as dangerous as the two of them.
Chen Yang didn't care. After this incident, Zhao Yuan's cheerful and lively personality changed a lot. He talked less and was in a low spirit, so he wouldn't disturb him.
Instead, the young man gave Chen Yang a look that was inexplicable.
Shortly after returning, Chen Yang discovered the cellar of Li Dafu's house, which showed signs of having been lived in and was covered with thick dust.
It seems that this family once hid here to escape disaster.
Chen Yang touched the furniture covered with cobwebs. The current owner of the island was an outsider, and the disappeared civilization was the original owner.
That's plunder and occupation, right? Only before she died would Old Lady Li feel regret.
The cause and effect exists.
But shouldn’t revenge be as simple and brutal as a ghost killing people? How could it involve fertilizers and plants
And after death, spring breeze blows and rebirth comes.
I'm really afraid that before the source of the curse is found, they will all be cursed, eat fertilizers, and bury themselves alive.
Chen Yang didn't stay in the cellar for long before Zhang Yan brought back a piece of news that was both unexpected and expected.
Zhang Yan saw Brother Cheng secretly burying the body in the back mountain.
Burnt.
Those who were arrested and imprisoned were all burned.
A dead silence enveloped Li Dafu's home. Chen Yang rubbed the dirty dust on his hands. He asked Awu all he could about Zhou Xiaoxiao and the stone cave, but to no avail.
How to move forward? This situation is becoming increasingly unfavorable.
Chen Yang thought of something and stopped rubbing his hands: "Granny Qi didn't bring anyone to check the fertilizer this morning."
"Yes, no."
Zhang Yan said: "There is no one outside, and every family stays indoors. I don't know how many people on the island have been cursed."
Chen Yang began to rub his hands again. Didn't they say that he would check three times a day, morning, noon and evening? Why didn't he come for the checkup? Did he not want to catch the sick? Or did something go wrong
The next moment he lost his strength and rubbed his hands until they hurt: "Let's go to Granny Qi's house."
"Let's go find Granny Qi!"
Chen Yang shouted a little out of control, ignoring everyone else. He just gave the boy his crutches and waited for him to get up and take a step.
"Why are you going to that old woman's house? Hey, wait for me." Zhao Yuan hurriedly chased after him.
Zhang Yan took the backpack, Lin Yue put away the iron sheet, and followed the team without saying anything.
The island was as quiet as an uninhabited island that day.
The sky is bright, the ground is not yet dug, the vegetables are green, the salted fish and long wild vegetables are hung outside the door... All these worldly hustle and bustle are broken by the closed house, bringing a creepy warmth and tranquility.
Chen Yang didn't see a single islander along the way. When he went to Grandma Qi's house, the door was open, so he went straight in.
Grandma Qi was not in the main room, nor did she light incense. She was chanting scriptures in the inner room.
The room was dark.
What's the difference between coming here last night and this time
Chen Yang did not go into the inner room. He stood at the door and called softly, "Grandma Qi."
The old man was kneeling on a cushion with his back to him, reciting scriptures indistinctly.
He was still wearing a black gown, with peonies embroidered on the corners and cuffs with dark gold thread, which made him look solemn and delicate.
A strong wind was blowing outside, and the window that was not closed was blown open. The wind blew in, passed through Grandma Qi, and slipped around Chen Yang and the other four people into the main room.
"Why isn't everyone coming out?"
Chen Yang felt a little cold. The temperature on the island had dropped. "You didn't come to check today. Is the condition under control?"
The frequency of the Buddhist beads turned slowed down. Granny Qi spoke, old and dignified: "No, we are still trying to find a solution. Everyone is at home, you should go back too, and don't run around."
He emphasized again: "Don't run around."
Chen Yang said, "Okay, let's go back then."
Then he glanced at the boy out of the corner of his eye and left.
The young man raised his upper body on crutches and turned lazily.
Seeing Chen Yang leaving with the young man, everyone didn't stay long and waited for him to say something to explain his trip.
Chen Yang said nothing and walked absent-mindedly.
Zhao Yuan behind him suddenly shouted: "Lin Yue! You are cursed!"
Chen Yang turned around and found that in addition to the boy beside him, Zhang Yan, Zhao Yuan, and Lin Yue herself were all looking at her trouser legs.
There were a few needle-like things on it, dark brown in color.
"Devil's Needle Grass." Chen Yang lowered his eyes and looked for a while, then found the corresponding name.
"What is that?"
"It's a plant, a herb," Chen Yang said, "The seeds haven't sprouted yet this month. They will only grow in August or September."
Zhang Yan, who was closest to Lin Yue, stepped aside.
Lin Yue's face turned gloomy. She bent down to pull the ghost thorn grass, but the pointed tip of the thing got stuck in her pants and got caught.
She pulled them out one by one and threw them away: "I'm not cursed."
"This thing is not from my body, I got it from somewhere."
Zhang Yan said, "It doesn't grow on the island, where can you find it?"
Lin Yue's facial features were somewhat distorted.
Zhao Yuan felt an abnormal sense of relief when he saw her like this: "You suspected Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing this morning and killed them. Now that we suspect you, can we kill you too?"
Lin Yue glared at him.
Zhao Yuan leaned closer to Chen Yang, still stabbing her with disgust: "It's your turn to experience the despair of being suspected and yet no one believes you!"
Lin Yue suddenly started to take off her clothes, stripping herself down to her underwear.
Revealing smooth limbs.
The boy kept facing the distant mountains and forests, silent in his own world.
Zhang Yan and Zhao Yuan both avoided Lin Yue's body and looked at the ground. No one noticed the panic that suddenly appeared in Chen Yang's eyes, as if his guess had been confirmed.
"You see, I just have a few on my trouser legs, not on my skin."
Lin Yue put her clothes back on and smiled sarcastically: "Since the ghost needle grass is not something that should appear now, it must have grown from the cursed person. We are all here. Whoever got it on me, do you need me to tell you?"
Chen Yang didn't pay attention to Lin Yue's deliberate guidance. He leaned over to the boy's ear and said something. The two changed direction and walked into the mountains.
Zhao Yuan was dumbfounded: "Chen Yang, what are you doing in the mountains? Are you going to mutate?"
Chen Yang didn't even turn his head: "Granny Qi."
"What?"
"The devil's thorn grass grows on Granny Qi's body."
Chen Yang walked and observed his surroundings without stopping: "She was cursed!"
Zhang Yan was stunned for a moment and then thought of something. His resolute face tightened and he cursed rarely. He also started running, and soon passed Chen Yang who was waiting for the boy, and rushed into the mountains at the front.
Lin Yue followed closely behind.
Zhao Yuan didn't understand. He saw everyone running away, so he ran away too.
――
Before Granny Qi was cursed, the monsters she captured and burned were those that were cursed.
Now she herself was cursed, the different kinds became the same kinds, and the same kinds became mutated.
So, she's going to start arresting people.