"You haven't done too many missions. I want to mention a few things to you. First of all, most of the time, when we enter a game, we will be assigned identities by ourselves. The same will be true for the next game..."
After playing, Song Gui added a lot of details that Lu Chu needed to pay attention to, and it was time for Lu Chu's free activities.
He greeted Song Gui and returned to their respective rooms at the same time.
In pure white space.
Lu Chu walked up to those square screens and said the number of the task he wanted to accept. Sure enough, the next moment, words appeared on the square screen——
"Requirement: Slay the Snake
Clue: twenty years ago
Hint: weird talk"
The requirements, clues, etc. of this task are all simple at a glance, making people puzzled. Since Song Gui chose this task, he naturally has his own ideas.
Just as he was thinking, a door appeared in front of him.
another door...
Lu Chu felt that he had to get used to it sooner or later.
He entered the door and lost consciousness. When he woke up again, he was squatting in the yard of a farmer picking vegetables.
He still doesn't know what's going on now, so naturally he won't startle the snake, but continue to move, but deliberately slow down.
He was waiting for someone to come over, so that he could easily understand the current situation.
While picking vegetables, Lu Chu looked around. The bluestone tiles, short walls, and houses that were not tall...it really looked like the most simple country.
In such a real world, it's hard to imagine that they are just a game, a simulation over and over again... Thinking about this, Lu Chu suddenly realized that if different people could carry out the same task, wouldn't everyone be attracted to each other? Ideas for an exchange experience
After thinking deeply, Lu Chu felt that he was thinking too much, let alone the "rule" itself monitoring them, just saying that such communication must be impossible-"rule" will definitely try to stop them.
Lu Chu picked vegetables for a while, and dragged on for a long time. Sure enough, an old man walked out of the house. She looked very old, with sagging skin and age spots, but she was very kind and kind. She saw that Lu Chu was still picking vegetables. After the dishes, he smiled and asked him: "Haven't you finished picking?"
Lu Chu nodded quickly: "Hurry up."
"Grandma will help you." As he spoke, the old man was about to bend down with difficulty.
Lu Chu quickly stopped her when she saw it, and helped her up with a smile: "Grandma, you can just sit down! I can do it by myself, or, grandma, watch me pick it? I will be fine soon."
Lu Chu has an extremely gentle and peaceful appearance and temperament, especially when he smiles, he always gives people endless good impressions. Seeing this, the old man smiles so hard that he can't see his teeth: "People say that I have a good grandson, but it's true. Enjoy!"
The two chatted and laughed for a while, and Lu Chucai was almost ready to pick. Suddenly, he remembered the "strange talk" in the clue, so he unobtrusively attracted his grandma to tell him about the strange things of the older generation. legend.
"Raise your head three feet, there are gods." Before the old man told him the story, he said such a sentence very solemnly.
Most of the old people have faith and are very pious.
Lu Chu seemed to be in awe, and at the same time looked at the old man with longing eyes.
Then the old man slowly said: "Let me tell you a story about beheading a snake."
Kill the snake!
Lu Chu didn't expect to find the same thing as mentioned in the request not long ago, and immediately listened attentively with all his attention.
The old man looked at Lu Chu kindly, and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, I told you this story when you were very young. It's too long ago. I guess you have forgotten it..."
"Legend, a long, long time ago, there lived a naughty boy here. He was spoiled and protected by his parents. Although his personality was not bad, he was always naughty. One day, his mother wanted him to work harder, so he gave He picked up a sickle and said to him, "Go and harvest our wheat. If there is a snake in the field, don't touch it. Don't mess with it. You have to jump over the place where it crawled!". The boy didn't They took it too seriously, as if they were playing, and went out with a scythe on their shoulders. The teenagers who were still a little away from the house played and walked all the way, and soon reached their own field."
Lu Chu was fascinated.
"He was obedient at first, and he cut the wheat for a while. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a snake really came to his field."
The old man paused for a moment, with some awe on his face, and continued to speak: "That snake is colorful and beautiful, and it doesn't mean to hurt the young man; and the young man is just curious, and his heart is even bigger. When he saw a snake, not only did he not remember his mother's words, but he raised his sickle and slashed at the snake, and the snake was instantly cut in half!"
Lu Chu let out a startled exclamation at the right time, and the old man comforted and patted the top of his head, and then continued: "This time, the young man was very happy, and felt that he had done an extremely heroic thing. Who would have thought , the snake lay on the ground for a while after being cut, and it was connected together again, and it came back to life. Although the young man was a little scared when he saw it, he didn't believe in this evil, so he swung the sickle and chopped the snake into seven sections, heartbroken. Think, this time, it can be regarded as done.”
"However, it took only a few breaths, and the snake connected its body together again and returned to its original shape. The young man became afraid, threw the sickle and ran home. When he returned home, he pointed at the snake who was still in the house Mother shouted 'Mom! Mother! I'm wrapped in a snake! Come and save me!', his mother didn't know what he did, and thought he just saw the snake in the field, and the snake was wild Unchanged was just chasing him, so he said, "You hide in the big tank in our yard, so that it won't find you, so it left by itself." The boy quickly hid in the tank when he heard that I was still scared to death, and closed the lid again. After a while, the snake chased in, sniffed around, climbed to the big tank, did nothing, walked around the big tank three times, and left The boy's mother saw the snake go away, and shouted, "Okay, come out, it's gone!", but no one answered her, so she went to the big tank, lifted the top cover, and saw that the tank There was only a puddle of blood left."
At this point, the story is over. The old man touched Lu Chu's head and warned him: "Many things are spiritual, but don't provoke them at will. Sometimes, you must listen to the words of the older generation. For your own good."
Lu Chu smiled gently and nodded obediently.
In his opinion, this story is more like a revenge story, except for a trace of mythology. However, Song Gui is currently missing, so Lu Chu can only shelve further exploration for a while.
After the old man told the story, he went into the house to pack his things.
Just when Lu Chu was still immersed in the story, there was a sudden loud noise from outside his yard. Lu Chu put down the vegetables in his hand, walked over, and found a disheveled woman squatting on the ground tearing Roaring heartbreakingly. Her hair was long and messy, completely covering her face, Lu Chu couldn't see what she looked like at all.
I only listened to the discussions gradually sounding from the surrounding crowd—
"It's this madman again..."
"Crazy woman, quickly take your children away, don't get hurt!"
"Create a crime, make a crime..."
After the mad woman yelled heart-piercingly for a few times, her voice gradually lowered, choked up, as if she was talking to herself, Lu Chu closed his eyes and pricked up his ears, and only then did he roughly hear what she said—
"You don't understand, the stories are all lies..."
"In the story, when the male protagonist who is in a desperate situation is rescued, he will regard that person as a light in his life, and they will rely on and trust each other... However, everything is different here. I saved him, Help him... Every desperate moment in his life, when he needed someone to accompany and protect him, I spent with him... But why, he only looked at another person from the beginning to the end... "
"I don't understand, I just, I just want to be with him..."
"In the end, she told me that it was all because I wasn't pretty enough. I don't look good, I don't look good, I... I don't look good!"
Free to here, the woman started yelling madly again, crying and laughing from time to time, telling the onlookers to avoid them like snakes and scorpions, and making Lu Chu puzzled.
The people around started talking non-stop again, and one of the village women said: "It's been so many years, after all, it's just a few words that I love him and he doesn't love me. In my opinion, women should not give themselves up to others." Those men whose origins are unknown deserve to suffer for the rest of their lives!"
As soon as the village woman said this, the mad woman began to babble again: "He said that woman helped him a lot, and that's why he got through the most difficult time in his life..."
"Helped a lot... In the end, it's just a face..."
"How sad, people who keep saying that this world is hypocritical, that they are different from others, are blinded by the simplest appearance..."
The few words she said were in a very low voice, as if she was speaking to herself or to the air. Except for Lu Chu, who had a keen hearing, no third person heard what she was saying. For some reason, Lu Chu cared about her inexplicably.
So he dragged the people next to him and chatted, "Could this crazy person be—"
The man immediately replied: "That's right, she is the well-known crazy woman in our village. She was stupid twenty years ago. You young people should stay away from her, so as not to get bad luck."
The author has something to say:
The story of killing snakes was told to me by my grandma when I was very young and lived in the country. At that time, I liked this kind of strange legends, so that for a while, I would stay away when I saw the sickle, which can be regarded as a childhood shadow.