Now that they have a place to settle down temporarily, Jiang Xiaoli and the others have to think about exploring the mystery again.
"While the protection period is not over, let's go to the Heishui River to have a look." Wei Qianrong suggested. This proposal was quickly adopted, and they were also aimless, so they walked out of the village together.
The Blackwater River... is indeed black enough. Coupled with the black dragon head on the door, Wei Qianrong was reminded of the legend of Heilongjiang. There are several versions of those legends, but most of them are stories about a black dragon defeating the original white dragon and then guarding the river.
"But the one in the water is obviously not a patron saint." Jiang Xiaoli said, squatting down and turning over the wreckage in the sand, "These bones... are human? But they are so small."
"This is the skeleton of a baby. The ones who were sacrificed may be all baby girls." A young man walking up from a distance was speaking. To the traces of redness rubbed by the cloth under the fair skin. "I asked the villagers, and they said that this river is called Heilong River, also known as 'Baby Crying River'. The former may be because of the black dragon enshrined in the local area, and the latter... is more mysterious. It is said that this river will make babies cry at night. .”
"Of course, I think it's because they killed too many children, and they have a guilty conscience." The man sneered, and as he said that, he looked at the room among the three, "My name is Mu Lei, and we want to cooperate temporarily?"
"You can go to the house with the best house in the village and knock on the door, and the village chief will give you a place to live." Wei Qianrong said lightly, "It's settled."
Mu Lei raised his eyebrows slightly, and smiled, this pair of creamy skin with red lips and white teeth is really pretty. "Thank you very much." After finishing speaking, he turned and entered the village again.
"Why can he ask the villagers?" Jiang Xiaoli expressed puzzlement: "Because he is a man and he is handsome?"
Li Hongying thoughtfully, she looked at Jiang Xiaoli: "We will go later, I will ask."
Jiang Xiaoli: Are you going to attack an NPC again
[The protection period has expired, please actively integrate into the game and crack the local secrets~]
[If the secret is cracked, the level is cleared, and the game is scored according to the contribution~]
What is cracking? Is it found to be cracked? Jiang Xiaoli and the others guessed so many possibilities, there must be one that is right, but the game didn't respond at all.
Could it be that the game wants them to find out the river god, tear off the disguise of the villagers' self-deception, and then pin the black dragon to the ground to cramp and peel off the skin to solve the secret? Jiang Xiaoli's brain was wide open, and he couldn't help but talk to Li Hongying and Wei Qianrong, and then got the indescribable expressions of the two of them.
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The Heilong River suddenly surged, and Jiang Xiaoli saw a strong yin in the river's ups and downs! And... Jiang Xiaoli seems to have seen the child's head
What kind of Baby Crying River is this, it's Shen Yinghe, right? Jiang Xiaoli immediately thought of many things. For example, people who were unwilling to have a daughter before found out that the baby girl was born, and they would directly suffocate or throw them into ponds or rivers. It stands to reason that such a thing would not happen now, but the village in the game is too dilapidated and ancient, and Jiang Xiaoli is not sure. Is this tricky, is the river god causing trouble, or are those unwilling resentful ghost babies taking revenge
"It's hard to say." Wei Qianrong rubbed his chin with emotion, "If you guessed it, this priest used the player's flesh and blood to frighten the resentful souls in the river so that they couldn't leave the river."
Wei Qianrong just read a lot of books, and was addicted to these, so he made friends with some celestial masters. She knows some formations and other things, but she really can't see what the function of the sacrifice is from the wreckage now. She couldn't even tell if this place had been set up or not.
After all...not professionally.
But it doesn't matter, Wei Qianrong took out the soul-calling flag from the bag, and Jiang Xiaoli immediately saw the ghost of the long-lost old celestial master.
"What kind of formation is this?"
The old celestial master floated around the pile of wreckage, looked left and right, then looked at the ashes of the incense candle and the black river water in front of him, and stared at Wei Qianrong resentfully: "Do you think I'm a roundworm in the stomach of the villagers?"
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"Or do you think the old man has mind reading skills?"
Wei Qianrong curled her lips, and withdrew the soul-calling banner. If you can't see it, you can't see it. Why talk about a lot of things that are there. Isn't it just that there are fewer clues
Wandering by the river doesn't seem to be able to get any information, but they can come to see the situation when they hear the baby crying at night-if the player just didn't lie to them.
They walked back to the village again, Li Hongying took the lead, randomly chose a house in the blink of an eye, floated directly into other people's yards to open the door, and then carried out the frail and frail man who was trembling with fright.
"Tell me, what secrets do you have in your village!" Li Hongying lifted the man's collar and brought it up to Jiang Xiaoli and Wei Qianrong, and let go of it abruptly, her vicious voice sounded like something... a bully? Interrogator
Jiang Xiaoli began to wonder if Li Hongying started reading some weird books again.
Wei Qianrong took out an ancient coin she bought from her bag, put the coin on the man's neck, and said, "Does it feel very cold? But if you lie later, it will be hot and burn through your throat .”
The man showed a terrified look, as if he believed this. —They obviously know that the players who come here will have some weird things in their hands.
"We can't help it, we really can't help it... we're just ordinary people, we... we can't help it..." The man was so frightened that he burst into tears, howling that he had no choice but was forced to keep quiet about any useful information.
"The Black Dragon River at the entrance of the village, is there really a black dragon in it?"
"Yes, it is Lord Holy Spirit..."
"Why did you throw your child into the river?"
The man shrank his neck, not daring to say anything, Jiang Xiaoli saw that his face was blushing and his body started to break out in a cold sweat. Li Hongying patted the man's shoulder from behind, and the man trembled and stammered: "Every family...every family wants to have a boy. Boys...girls can't support them, and there's not enough food..."
"Can't you support them? Then where are the women in your village?"
The man fell silent again, bowing his head and not speaking.
The news that can be asked is similar to the news that the player gave them, that is, the information and legend of the river. The ones who were sacrificed could be baby girls or players, even if this man was killed, most of the people who were sacrificed were outsiders like them. Regarding other secrets in the village, the man kept silent, only saying that he was not allowed to go out at night.
—Dangerous at night.
And the danger doesn't bypass them just because they're NPCs. The NPCs in this game are like the aborigines in a small world, but this small world often has foreign "tourists" who come to visit and become sacrifices for them to live a good life.
The man was finally let go. Jiang Xiaoli felt that he was just afraid that they would kill him directly, but this man didn't show hatred and resentment, but also faintly revealed a kind of sympathy... Does this guy think they will be wiped out this round? Or is it that the last batch of players died miserably...
Unable to understand, Jiang Xiaoli counted her belongings for a while, and hesitated whether to use takeaway. This village... is so poor, does she have to go up the mountain to dig sweet potatoes every day? And not even a change of clothes...
O game! Jiang Xiaoli suspected that the game had planned to throw her here, otherwise why did it happen to be a delivery system? I don't know if this takeaway offers daily necessities...
Li Hongying didn't care about these things, she just didn't want Jiang Xiaoli to suffer and encouraged her to use it. It's just that the words of encouragement are not very pleasant: "What if the reward this time is also a takeaway template?"
Wei Qianrong: "If you want to lose weight in the game, don't use it. If you don't want to, use it."
Look at how thin and weak the people in this village are, they are all starved to the point of skin and bones, they are pitifully dead.
So Jiang Xiaoli used it, and first ordered a KFC Family Bucket to show his respect.
—Then she discovered that this damn dog template actually needs to be recharged. That is to say, it is paid for! money? Where did she get the cash? I didn't bring my mobile phone to transfer money!
Wei Qianrong was silent for a moment, then took out an antique Buddhist bead bracelet from her bag. "Try this?"
The takeaway template swallowed the prayer beads and began to appraise the price. — 345,000.
Wei Qianrong nodded: "It seems that I am not at a loss. But this prayer beads are not very effective."
Jiang Xiaoli looked at the balance of the takeaway template, and suspected that he might not be able to spend the money in this game. ah!
Jiang Xiaoli looked at Wei Qianrong, and felt that she saw the aura of a rich woman shining.
The two went back to the house, ordered things like sheets, quilts, mattresses, food and clothes. The three of them ate happily in the dilapidated house. Li Hongying went to the neighboring house to look around. It seemed that some of the rooms were already occupied, but there were still three rooms that were still there. I don't know if it's because the protection period has passed and the three players unfortunately landed in a box, or they simply didn't go to the village chief to ask for a house to live in.
… then where are they going to live? Sleep on the street
Li Hongying disappeared and wandered around the villagers' yard, because Jiang Xiaoli had a sudden idea: "What will those villagers say in the chat?" So Li Hongying immediately went to listen to the corner of the wall openly.
- "Has it started again? This time there are also ten people... Every once in a while, we..."
- "There is no way, this is the will of the Holy Spirit. If it is not for the Holy Spirit to bless everyone in our village, they will die. They... who made them come here?"
-"..." Sigh.
- "By the way, what about Huzi? The year before last... he still hated us? Would he say nonsense?"
- "If he talks nonsense, the Holy Spirit will not let their family go. Hu Zi is also, isn't she just a woman, he really has never seen the world."
- "That's right, those women don't look good. I didn't look at the river... If it weren't for her, we wouldn't be what we are now."
Woman, "she", "tiger", "holy spirit"...
With a sullen face, Li Hongying began to imagine the lingering love story inexplicably.