Lu Qingjia's good looks are due to the genes of his unreliable parents. Of course, the inherited good skin is the only positive property they left to Lu Qingjia.
Lu Qingjia's mother is beautiful, and her maternal genes are good. It is said that my grandfather was also a well-known handsome guy back then. The old black and white photos in military coats in those days are still more amazing than many celebrities who have refined their pictures at first glance.
The mother looks good, and the uncle looks even better.
The age difference between my uncle and my mother is five or six years. My mother and my father dropped out of school before graduating from high school. In fact, the age difference between Lu Qingjia and my uncle is only twelve or thirteen years old.
After his parents were involved in the death of his parents, the uncle who took Lu Qingjia over to raise him was only in his early twenties at the time.
Even younger than Lu Qingjia's current age.
When they were young, the age difference in their teens seemed obvious, but as Lu Qingjia grew up, especially after the height of junior high school, the two of them didn't look like relatives from different generations, but like brothers.
The old uncle is either because of his excellent genetics, or because he is diligent in exercising, and because he is a gamer's spiritual nourishment, in fact, it has not changed much for so many years.
It's just that the bearing is more mature and stable, and after the appearance has faded away the last trace of greenness, it is fixed in the best state.
The old uncle in the photo is like stepping back in time, back to the way he was when he found himself.
He was still a little immature young man, but he stretched out his hand to himself: "Jiajia, I will be your guardian from now on."
Lu Qingjia's eyes were a little hot, and her nose was sore and uncomfortable.
Feeling the soft touch on his arm, he looked down and found that the black cat was comforting himself with a pad of meat.
Lu Qingjia took a deep breath and forced herself to focus back on reason.
This is undoubtedly the dungeon of the old uncle, which belongs to the exchange student dungeon of the horror game.
Except for a few cases, the world of the dungeon is mostly a secondary real world. If the information reported in the photo is true, then after the old uncle entered this dungeon, the character must be the eldest son of this family.
Not only the photos, but also the style of the room, the collection of tea utensils, his hobbies to pass the time, and even the books he prefers on the bookshelf, all of which made Lu Qingjia feel deeply familiar.
Because in his residence, the room that has been sealed with dust is also like this.
I just don't know in what form the second son of the family, the role that Lu Qingjia is now replacing, existed when the old uncle came in.
It's no wonder that before the death of the old uncle, he almost desperately asked himself not to avenge him, and not to have anything to do with the game.
In order to prevent Lu Qingjia from embarking on the road of no return, he strictly guarded against it, but after entering this game, if he finds that the younger brother who replaces the character looks exactly like his nephew, the sense of fateful absurdity will probably drown him in an instant.
And why the 'fraud master' can't wait to let him enter this copy that may reveal the true body of the fraud master, Lu Qingjia seems to have some signs.
Lu Qingjia sat on the bed, following the cat's hair, as if talking to him, and seemed to be talking to himself: "Because the old uncle's mission failed, the consequences were not just his own death, right?"
This can also explain why the old uncle is so afraid of his revenge, because he is very clear about his nephew's ability, and there is a high probability that he will find a copy of his death.
However, this copy was marked with a curse the moment he stepped in.
The deceiver not only did not stop him from coming here, but also helped him, because he knew that there was a dead end waiting for him.
Apart from the fact that blood relatives had been here, Lu Qingjia couldn't think of any more reasonable clues to trigger the curse.
Previously, Lu Qingjia had guessed that after entering the dungeon, all the members would be cursed collectively after a certain period of time. Even before he had verified it, he directly judged that the probability was lower than the latter possibility.
And of course, it was just a tentative appetizer, which made Lu Qingjia a rare embarrassment. The difficulty of this dungeon has really increased, which is Lu Qingjia's current ability.
Because this is the same as Ouyang Bai's halo rebound, it's almost an unsolvable difficulty.
And Lu Qingjia is almost certain that the rule to temporarily avoid the dead line here is to find a player to be a dead ghost for himself.
At the beginning, the old uncle and the others were afraid that they had also experienced a tragic intrigue. In the end, he lost, and he still gave his trust at an inopportune time, and the price was his own life.
However, these clues and judgments are too general, and Lu Qingjia is still unclear about the specific operation details, so it is impossible to talk about customs clearance or even find out the fraudster.
At this time, Mother Lu's phone call came in again to check whether Lu Qingjia had returned home.
Lu Qingjia probably guessed how Mother Lu's irritability came from, so she was a little more patient.
He replied, "We've already arrived home, how about you?"
Mother Lu breathed a sigh of relief: "Just get home, don't run around, I won't be back in a while, your cousin is dead, and now they are making trouble."
Lu Qingjia comforted her, and then inquired with Mother Lu about several players she recognized based on the seat memory and appearance characteristics at the time.
Since they all have to bear the curse, most of them are from my own family. Sure enough, Mother Lu quickly checked the information and told Lu Qingjia the names of the players and their relationship with the family.
He kept ranting about Lu Qingjia staying at home all day long and not socializing, even forgetting about his relatives.
After Lu Qingjia ended the phone call, she flipped through her address book and found that everyone in it had contact information.
Even if there is no phone, at least in the same family WeChat group.
So he directly pulled a small group and pulled several people in.
He replaced the avatar with his own selfie. As long as he saw it at the banquet at that time, he should have an impression.
So Lu Qingjia received quick feedback. Within ten minutes, all the players who had met at the wedding were bubbling up.
[Players in the same game, for the time being, the rules have not mentioned competition. Of course, it is best to work together to make a fortune together, do you think? ] said an extreme game player.
[That is, of course we hope to unite together to the outside world. After all, most of our horror game players are also working together. It’s just that your extreme games and infinite games—of course, don’t mean biased, but because of the special screening conditions and competitive environment, there are not a few cases of stabbing teammates in the back. We are happy, but what about your sincerity?]
[Heh, it’s just as if the gold-hunting players and hunter players of your horror game are vegetarians.]
It is relatively easy to report groups between infinite game and extreme game players, and there are many players who know the information about the exchange student system and other games.
[Should we stop the scene? Now that the rules are unclear, it's too early to say anything. It is only possible to exchange information.]
[The premise is that there is an exchange of information of equal value.]
Lu Qingjia was impatient with this step. In the end, if it was just customs clearance, he didn't take the difficulty to heart.
Even if the difficulty of this dungeon is beyond anything he has experienced before.
He doesn't need the cooperation of the players, but he doesn't want these guys to cause him trouble because of their clever actions.
It is necessary to master and guide their customs clearance ideas, which involves absolute poor information.
So he said directly: [The mission of this dungeon is to survive the curse. Although we cannot guarantee that we are all players in this game, we belong to the same family and have inherited a curse. The groom who died today is the because this.]
[It's not a car accident, it's not a plot arrangement, it's just that he died.]
[The difficulty of the copy is very high, and the setting is a bit similar to the death of the gods. In short, there are countless accidents and unreasonable power levels. Although everyone has their own skills at this stage, I will only say this once.]
[Don't be too confident in any of your life-saving means. Finally, I wish everyone good luck.]
The WeChat group was quiet for over a minute.
I just said that it was just exchanging information, and everyone has guesses about what they have seen and thought, so they must be secretive and will not reveal the clues that key decisions are taken advantage of.
But Lu Qingjia shook it all out in one breath, and it was to the point that they had not yet discovered it. Such generosity even made them feel like stepping on the air.
The first reaction is is this guy crazy? The second reaction is that I am afraid that I am not deliberately making up stories to deceive people in order to muddy the waters.
However, the reality is that as soon as Lu Qingjia finished speaking, the mission of the game was released—
[Trigger Main Line: The Mystery of the Family Curse. Mission: Survive fifteen days.]
"… "
Is this really not a lie
Although there are only two short sentences, the news of the side reaction is not too small.
Lu Qingjia announced the task after he finished speaking, indicating that at least what he said in the general direction was correct, so the event did not need to be discovered, and the game was announced directly.
And this kind of copy of the so-called XX mystery, the general basic task must be to solve the puzzle, right? However, the mission benchmark here is only to require players to survive, without even making any exploration requirements, one can imagine the difficulty.
So what Lu Qingjia said just now is not alarmist.
At this moment, everyone has not faced the power of this curse, no matter how you describe it, but those who can enter the exchange student situation are also the best in the game they are in, and it is not enough to destroy their self-confidence.
Lu Qingjia also got the clues he wanted from the attitudes of the people, and there was no need for them to explain it deliberately. On the contrary, if the other party asked directly or indirectly, if the other party was vigilant, he might even lie or mislead.
But now it seems that he is the only one who has really received the curse. Anyone who feels the lingering coldness from the inside out will not question their first direct showdown at the beginning.
Lu Qingjia chatted with the players again, agreed that they could be contacted at any time, and went to the kitchen to order three bowls of noodles.
Thanks to Mother Lu's phone call in a few minutes, Lu Qingjia could accurately control their positions.
After the noodles were ready, Lu's father and Lu's mother just arrived home.
There was an accident without eating anything at the wedding banquet, and the two of them are now hungry.
Mother Lu was originally full of anger and anxiety, but when she saw her son at home, her emotions eased slightly.
The expression on his face was restrained, and he sighed: "Let's eat first."
In the middle of the meal, Lu Qingjia suddenly asked, "Mom, did my brother have a close relationship with anyone at that time? Do you still have any impressions?"
With the temperament of the old uncle, even if the customs clearance is passed, the anxious parents will not pay attention to it. If he and the fraudster were the protectors and the protected roles at that time, it is not impossible for Lu's father and Lu's mother to have seen the fraud. deceive teachers.
Of course, in fact, it is also a way to find the younger generation in the big family. After all, if it is the same copy, the cheater is likely to be one of the cursed young people in this family.
But if the other party successfully clears the customs, then the remaining characters will either disappear or the world line will adjust and return to normal life. It is difficult to find clues from clues alone.
When Mother Lu heard him mentioning her eldest son, she took the chopsticks and looked up at Lu Qingjia, her eyes were a little terrifying—
"Why are you inquiring about this? You have to mention your brother now if you don't mention it sooner or later? Do you think your mother's life is too good?"
As she said that, she slapped the chopsticks in her hand, and the action was so heavy that the bowl on the table almost turned over. Father Lu, who was eating noodles on the opposite side, shrank his shoulders in fright, wishing to erase the sense of existence.
However, Mother Lu, who had already started, couldn't calm down. She grabbed Lu Qingjia's hand with surprising strength.
"I ask you to listen to your mother's words carefully, don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't think about what you shouldn't think about, don't inquire about some things, and usually don't talk and ignore people who only know how to keep cats and dogs, so why not? Listen to the order?"
"Your brother was just curious at the beginning, but now you are the only mother left. If you have any problems, what should I do?"
Lu Qingjia glanced at Lu's father, but the other party avoided his gaze and did not mean to dissuade him at all. He probably knew that once he made a sound, it would only escalate the conflict.
But he couldn't hide. Mother Lu looked over at Lu Qingjia's line of sight, and her whole body exploded like a lit gasoline barrel.
"You're still eating, you're going to die, why don't you look at your son?" He said with a sneer, with a hint of hatred in his voice: "Yes, you will naturally rest easy when you have a son."
"How do you match the disgusting thing?" Then he threw away Lu Qingjia and slapped Lu's father unilaterally: "How do you match my son for your job?"
Then he said madly: "Today Qiangzi died, and he died well, so as not to harm the next generation, tell me that your family should die."
Lu Qingjia quickly pulled the two away, held Mother Lu's head, and looked at each other: "Mom, calm down, it's fine, I'm still here, I'm fine."
The powerful mental force suppressed the madness and irritability of Mother Lu at the moment, and after the relief, there was a huge exhaustion.
Lu Qingjia directly picked up the person and sent her to the room, and put the quilt on the bed for her.
Only then did he return to the living room, and he saw Father Lu shrugging his shoulders all by himself, and he was less than fifty.
Seeing Lu Qingjia coming back, he sighed, "You've grown up and you're more and more like your brother."
Lu Qingjia did not comment on the choices made by him and his family for the time being, but continued: "Do you have an impression of what I asked mom about just now?"
Lu's father did not resist telling Lu Qingjia everything like Lu's mother, but just feared that Lu's mother would go mad when she found out.
Then he agreed with Lu Qingjia: "Actually, it's better to let you make a choice than to hide this kind of thing. After all, everyone in our family has to go through this."
So Father Lu told the story of the family.
It is said that there is an ancient mountain village isolated from the world, closed and conservative, and the villagers worship a kind of mountain god from generation to generation.
But the mountain god needs a pair of boys and girls to worship every three years. In the past, everyone was ignorant and ignorant. Later, in the modern era, education was popularized in the countryside.
Young people have seen the outside world through school or part-time work, realized the savageness and cruelty of mountain villages, and organized to ask the elderly in the village to stop worshipping.
As a result, it naturally caused an uproar and even bloodshed. The old man who had the right to speak did not even allow the children in the village to go out.
But after seeing the prosperity of the world, how can you be willing to continue to be poor
So a group of young people planned to escape, and they succeeded at the time, but they did not expect that their behavior also angered the mountain god.
When descendants pass the age of eighteen, there is a risk of death. Only when a child is born will the curse be transferred to the child. After eighteen years of dormancy, fate will continue to reincarnate.
Whether it is the paternal line or the maternal line, as long as it is the direct bloodline of those young people, they are all included in this list.
It has been almost forty years since then, and there are almost two generations of people. If the paternal and maternal lines are included, except for the people who have come closer in recent years who attended the wedding banquet today, most of them are people who have not had much contact or are scattered all over the country. .
Everyone knew very well that this was the curse they escaped back then, and it wasn't that no one tried to bring their descendants back to worship the mountain gods and beg for forgiveness.
But without exception, there is no return, and people outside know that there is no possibility of reconciliation.
Fortunately, this kind of thing happens every three years, every 15 days, as long as you get over it, you can stop for three years, and take advantage of this time to get married and have children.
And not every time there are many dead people, even for several years, no one died, but the last time was too tragic, including Lu Qingjia's brother (old uncle), a total of seven people died.
Mother Lu also became violent and irritable in the blow of the death of the excellent eldest son, and had a strong desire to control the only remaining young son.
But it stands to reason that if you want to ensure that the younger son survives, the best way is to arrange for him to have a baby quickly in the past three years.
But Mother Lu, who had lost her son, didn't want to see her grandson inherit this tragic fate. The torture of pressure made her more and more manic, and it was common at home to get angry at the slightest touch like today.
This also explains why at the beginning of the game, Lu Qingjia came to the judgment that the original owner was a taciturn, dark and depressed person.
The grief of losing his brother, the unresolved knot of his mother, the curse on his body, and the depressing and dull family atmosphere, it is strange that his spirit can be normal.
When Lu Qingjia asked Lu's father what he said, he used his mental ability, so that Lu's father could speak freely and tell himself what he knew.
After confirming that Lu's father and Lu's mother would not get any more useful information here, Lu Qingjia wanted to send the two of them out of the game field.
This copy is too brutal, but Lu's father said that the mass death occurred only three years ago, and the previous one dates back to more than ten years ago.
Either this dungeon will not be open to players every time, or depending on the group, there are other family groups, but they just haven't communicated with their own family.
Lu Qingjia took out two tubes of medicine from the space, a type of medicine bought from the infinite space.
It can erase people's painful memories in a short time, so that the spirit and mood can reach the best level.
This thing was originally an escapist existence like a drug in Infinite City, but different from that, the body was not addicted and would have no side effects.
It's just that it's hard to say about addiction. After all, once you use it, you can forget your troubles and be happy. Many people can't refuse it.
Lu Qingjia fed one tube to the sleeping mother Lu, and then poured another tube into the water to trick Lu's father into drinking it. In a blink of an eye, Lu's father was also sleepy.
While he was resting, Lu Qing settled at the hotel, packed his luggage and prepared his passport.
After the two woke up, they directly guided them with mental power, while lying to them: "It's too late, let's have something to eat on the way to the airport, I booked the first class, the meal should be good, I can make up for it when the time comes."
It is implied that the two have long travel plans and send them out of the house. After three hours, they will fly to a country where they can get a visa on arrival and spend the next fifteen days.
In view of Lu Qingjia's physique at the moment when death is coming, he didn't plan to send Lu's father and Lu's mother, but fortunately the other party did not force it.
Although some inexplicably led by the nose, I was in a good mood when I went out.
As soon as the two left, Lu Qingjia arranged the next thing. In any case, he had to go back to the small mountain village first.
Unexpectedly, when they were about to go out with the cat the next day, the Tang family came to the door.
A group of people clapped the door loudly and rudely, and opened their mouths to care about the woman who Lu Qingjia wanted to make a big fuss about the wedding yesterday.
"When you took her away, you had to hand it over."
"I don't care, my son was killed by her, and she can't run away."
Lu Qingjia didn't have the slightest liking for this family, and said with a half-smiling smile, "Could you not know where my cousin lives with the object of her five years?"
"I just watched the fight was about to start. I was afraid that the police station would pull someone out. After that, she left. I didn't know her and of course I didn't know where she went."
"Bah! Who knows what you're thinking about all day? You're the loneliest kid in the family. Why wasn't you the one who died?"
"Aunt, it's okay, don't say that to the family."
"Let's go to the woman, but she has already moved out, and the company she works for didn't go. We suspect that she just ran away."
"The death of Qiangzi cannot be without an explanation. Since you took people away, you have to be responsible for finding them."
Lu Qingjia laughed: "Could your cousin died because you didn't have any points? What's the use of looking for her?"
"Don't worry about it, help find someone anyway."
Lu Qingjia raised her eyebrows. It stands to reason that the woman was drained of her value by the cousin's family. If the groom's family were to be replaced by ordinary people, he might indeed be angry with the woman, thinking that the other party had killed someone.
But this family knows its own business, and it is understandable that anger is anger at this moment, but the woman has given up everything, not even the real estate they were fighting for before. Objectively speaking, they should breathe a sigh of relief and give up the fight. of.
If you have to find someone on purpose, don't you worry that the other party will tear their face and continue to fight? Anyway, she really didn't have to pay the slightest responsibility for the death of the groom.
It's just that the groom's parents are swayed by hatred, so what happened to the others
The conclusion then is that the women took something they had to get back.
Lu Qingjia temporarily pressed this point and decided to go back to the mountain village first.
He said, "Okay, but I have something to do. I'll accompany you when I get back."
"Your cousin is dead, and you still go out without looking for someone? Do you have any conscience?"
"Where are you going?"
Lu Qingjia smiled: "I'll go back to my hometown."
When a few people heard it, they immediately showed the expression of looking at a lunatic, and then heard Lu Qingjia say again: "Oh, yes, yesterday afternoon I started to have bad luck, and was almost killed by a steel pipe that fell from the garage. I guess it was Tai Sui, please don't leave me. too close."
After saying this, the few people took a big step back and dared not approach.
After sending the family away, Lu Qingjia received a message from an extreme player and an infinite player, and the other party also learned the origin of the curse from his family.
Thinking of Lu Qingjia, who knew a lot of clues from the beginning, it was a bit of an alliance.
He asked him if he wanted to go back to the mountain village together.
Lu Qingjia didn't refuse either, because there were no coordinates there, and Lu Qingjia couldn't use his abilities, and he was afraid of hurting ordinary people by transportation, so he rented a car and drove back with three people and one cat.
When I left in the morning and arrived at the destination town, it was already evening.
There was still a long road ahead, and the three of Lu Qingjia left the car in the town and headed straight for the village.
The reason why the village is isolated from the world is that there are several major mountains in the middle. If you take the mountain road, you can walk with nine bends and eighteen bends and a distance of dozens of miles.
But in a straight line, the distance will be shortened by nearly ten times. The three players are all skilled in physical skills, and it is not a problem to cross mountains and rivers.
So it didn't take long to reach the village before the sun went down.
From a distance, you can see a dead cat hanging on the old locust tree at the entrance of the village. There are still many customs in the countryside. The cat will not be buried after death, but the body will be hung on the tree.
As the three approached, Lu Qingjia suddenly felt that something was wrong, and turned over the dead cat with a branch.
The cat corpse turned around, and at the other end was a dead baby that was swollen and rotting.
The dungeons that players of the two games of Infinite and Extreme generally have to pass are more physically extreme tests, but there is rarely such a ghostly visual impact.
Seeing this, he stepped back subconsciously.
As a result, I bumped into someone, and when I looked back, I saw an old woman whose face was the same as old tree bark, covered with age spots, and had lost teeth, but the old woman with the eyes in the triangular eyes did not know when she appeared here.
Staring at the three of them, as if very satisfied, he smiled and showed his black teeth: "Are you back?"