Lu Qingjia's parents have the same surname, so his uncle's surname is actually Lu.
As he grew up, the nephew and the uncle looked more and more like brothers rather than relatives of inferior generations, not just talking.
They look a bit similar, have the same surname, and the age difference is not big in appearance. From the beginning of junior high school, many new guests of the farmhouse are mistaken.
However, no one can correct this thing, so there are even many enthusiastic people who want to introduce objects to promising young people who have raised their 'brother' alone.
Of course, what I want to introduce to my uncle is not something that only happened in those few years. After all, the talent is good, and although it is low-key, it is obvious that the family has a lot of savings.
But Lu Qingjia knew from a certain period that his uncle's sexual orientation was similar to his own, so everyone around him was hot.
When he was aware of his sexuality in adolescence, it was also the old uncle who guided him positively, so that Lu Qingjia could accept it well, and did not have any negative psychological impact on this matter that could not be tolerated by the surrounding environment.
However, in the process of his uncle guiding him, Lu Qingjia can also see his aesthetics and preferences from his words.
The uncle's vision is also not low. Anyway, before he died, Lu Qingjia didn't see any signs that he was tempted by anyone in reality.
When he speculated that the fraudster and his uncle might have a relationship based on various clues, Lu Qingjia was actually reluctant to accept this speculation from the bottom of his heart.
Because once it is settled, it means that the betrayal and pain that my uncle experienced at that time, when a person died miserably in the game, it was more painful than he imagined.
However, now he tells him that his uncle has been married in the game.
Although it is possible that this ceremony was forced by the dungeon situation or other purposes, but if there is a slight possibility, the old man is really looking forward to the future and wants to start a family with another person for the first time.
As long as there was such a possibility, Lu Qingjia was so distressed that it was hard to breathe.
Perhaps the expression on his face was too serious, and the voices of the little girls chattering in the relaxed atmosphere became lower.
Lu Qingjia immediately realized this, and raised an unnatural smile: "What's the matter? Can you tell me?"
The girl who brought up the topic said: "We don't know very well, we were still young back then, and it was just like these days. Brother Ji returned to the village with a few people. There was one person who was closest to Brother Ji. As if they were just having a good time."
"Later, the other people slowly died. In the end, only Brother Ji and that person were left. The two of them got married in the Shanshen Temple."
"At that time, did I know that men can also marry men?" The girl's expression was exaggerated, which showed that she was greatly affected at that time.
She continued: "But when Brother Ji said he was going to have a wedding, the adults in the village scolded them, but they finally agreed. The village chief and great uncle also helped set the wine, and everyone in the village participated."
"Anyway, if the adults think it's okay, it must be right."
This closed mountain village is also a girl in a dominant position. Naturally, its values are to obey the authority. No matter how unbelievable things are, as long as the adults and the elderly say it is right, there will be no doubts.
After speaking, the girl looked at Lu Qingjia worriedly: "But don't die, we all like you, you'd better go back to the city."
Lu Qingjia smiled: "Finally, did my brother and the others leave here and go back to the city?"
"Hee hee, you're so interesting, didn't you know when your brother went back then?"
Listening to the girl's tone, she didn't even know whether Lu Ji was dead or not.
Well, when the so-called old uncle and the others returned to the city, they didn't know whether they saw it with their own eyes or the result was 'unifiedly announced' by others.
Lu Qingjia first had to determine where the old uncle died.
Anyway, his ashes were not buried in the cemetery run by Lu's father and Lu's mother. Now that he said that again, the place of death is not simple.
In short, according to the current clues, the old uncle's character did not die after returning to the city, so that Lu's father and Lu's mother could successfully collect the body.
It is not convenient to 'die' in the village, otherwise the village is so big, even if it is dead, it is not a big deal to collect the body of a young man of the same race and dig a hole and bury it.
Lu Qingjia asked some more questions. The girls didn't know the importance, and all they knew was poured out.
After a while, some farm workers passed by the river and saw a few people who were not working around Lu Qingjia. They reprimanded Lu Qingjia twice and glared at Lu Qingjia again. The girls then dispersed and continued to wash clothes.
Lu Qingjia said goodbye to several people and left by the river.
It's already early morning. Those who have work are all working in the fields, and most of those who don't have work are gathered on the dam at the door of a certain house to peel peanuts and grind their teeth.
Seeing Lu Qingjia, the voices of these people were obviously lowered, and the precautions of adults were not as easy to break as a few little girls.
However, Lu Qingjia didn't care about his face, and even greeted people with a smile, as if there was no objection and estrangement in that atmosphere, which made others quite embarrassed.
Lu Qingjia came to the Shanshen shrine that he visited yesterday, and knocked on the door, it was the man who opened the door.
Yesterday Lu Qingjia judged that his actual age should be younger than he appeared, but in fact it was the opposite. According to several girls, the other party was in his 70s and had the highest voice in the village except for the village chief. one.
This is very unusual. It's not that Lu Qingjia's eyes can't go wrong, but the eyes of the other party, the state of the whole person's energy, the strength of the bones and the distribution of muscles during walking, all show that this person's body functions are in prime of life, but only appearance Just rough.
The man opened the door, and it was not surprising to see Lu Qingjia coming. Given his age, if he had been in charge of guarding the ancestral hall, he would have come into contact with a lot of players.
He nodded to Lu Qingjia: "What are you doing here?"
Lu Qingjia said: "I heard that my brother worshipped others here three years ago. Although my brother is gone now, my parents and relatives have no way of knowing about this marriage, but now that I know, I also want to know more about the time. thing."
"Can you tell me about this brother and let me express my condolences?"
The man twitched the corners of his mouth, as if he had never seen such a fake young man who came back and asked for clues.
But he didn't refuse Lu Qingjia's request. After letting him into the ancestral hall, he pointed to the layout inside and said, "This is the hall for worship here."
"Every happy event in the village is handled by the ancestral hall. First, we distribute the joy to the mountain god, and second, we also ask the mountain god to bless everything smoothly."
"Your brother, they are the same as you are now. They fled back in a panic. Although the sins of your grandparents' generation will be retributed on your children, it is still embarrassing."
"It's useless to come back. It seems that many years ago, the mountain god liked to bring out a sacrifice to kill the New Year from time to time, but I didn't expect it to be twice in a row this time—"
The man took the call and continued his previous answer: "At that time, the other little babies were all dead, and only your brother and the other were left. Before they died, they wanted to marry each other, although it was unheard of for a man to marry a man, But when people are about to die, our elders can only fulfill our wishes.”
"I'm afraid you haven't seen it before, right?" Lu Qingjia said suddenly.
The man didn't react at once: "What did you say?"
"I'm afraid it's not the first time I've seen a man marry a man, right?" Lu Qingjia repeated.
The look on the man's face became rigid at that instant, and a strange light flashed from his eyes, and he suddenly changed from being easygoing before to being full of aggression.
"What are you talking about?" the other party said solemnly.
Lu Qingjia smiled, and the determined tone just now changed, as if it was a word from a young man's whim.
"No, I just think that many homosexuals outside have tried to force their parents to understand, but the blind daters in the village accepted it quickly. It seems that the degree of conservativeness of a place should not be measured by whether it is closed or not."
"However, most of the folks in the village are relatives who haven't given five clothes yet. They feel distressed that the younger generation will not live for long, and they all feel sympathetic and sympathetic. They are busy arranging wine, and the villagers have abandoned their previous suspicions and came to participate. After all, blood is thicker than water~”
Lu Qingjia's expression at that time, looked grateful and sincere, as if learning that his brother's last wish before his death was realized under the tolerance of the villagers, anyone who saw it would be moved with sigh.
But the man listened to his words, the tone of his voice, and those subtle endings, but it was sarcastic no matter how he heard it.
The man didn't know how to react for a while, the attack was too fussy, and he was inexplicably aggrieved, making his already black and yellow face even darker.
But Lu Qingjia no longer bothered about this topic, and asked again, "Do you still have any impression of my uncle-sister-in-law?"
"It's a pity to say that at the beginning they did such a big thing, and then they disappeared, and our family never saw each other."
"If possible, although there is no legal effect, we still want to meet each other as relatives who love my brother together."
The man looked at Lu Qingjia with a strange expression: "Didn't he already leave? Didn't he contact you?"
"No, who knows the reason, maybe he is afraid of living alone and is ashamed to face us? But he really thinks too much, how can we embarrass his partner in front of my brother's spirit in the sky?"
The man asked Lu Qingjia as if he had found a loophole: "The young people who can go back to the village are all relatives. The group that went outside was in your generation, so they haven't released five servers yet."
"You two have lived together since you were young, and you don't even know who they are?"
Lu Qingjia's eyes flashed, and he was sure that the man was deliberately avoiding answering this question, so the current situation is much more interesting.
It was obviously different from the girls in the village who clearly remembered that incident and remembered that it was so personal, the impression became blurred.
Lu Qingjia asked again, "By the way, did they leave the village together after they got married?"
The man nodded: "Although what happened back then made everyone angry, but in the end, the child is innocent. Every time someone comes back, the village is never sad."
"You saw this year, and you expected that someone might come back, and the house was cleaned in advance for you."
"At that time, they knew that they were hopeless, and they left together not long after they got married. After that, we still knew from the baby that they were gone."
She was the teacher who taught the children to read and write in the village. She went to college outside and returned to the village, and she was one of the few people who could connect with the clansmen outside.
If this is full of flaws, Lu Qingjia doesn't bother to point it out one by one.
He just smiled and asked, "Oh, is that right? Then, how did Uncle Sheng, who died and who lived? After all, my brother's ashes haven't been in the cemetery yet. I was still young, thinking about how sad my parents were. , I won't forget to collect my brother's body and treat him as buried in the village."
The man was asked this, but he didn't panic, but smiled: "I know, every year the people chosen by the mountain gods come back to light a lamp in the ancestral hall, and then see if the lamp goes out after 15 days, which means life and death. miles."
The man showed a weird smile: "Your brother's light is off, but his family doesn't have one, so let's find out. I just don't know why your brother is missing, and you haven't found the body yet?"
"Poor baby, I don't know how many years I will be a lonely ghost."
When the man said this, he looked directly at Lu Qingjia and said it with a provocative look on his face, apparently deliberately angering him.
Lu Qingjia found another point that this person did not match with the elderly. This is not an escape mentality that an old person can have, especially someone who has been guarding the ancestral hall for many years.
The other party didn't seem to want to let go of any part of Lu Qingjia's rage and anger, but it didn't do what he wanted.
Lu Qingjia showed a slightly weird smile and said, "My brother, like me, doesn't care about where to live after death."
"If you can have the culprit to accompany you, that's fine."
Lu Qingjia took a deep look at the ancestral hall and the extremely ugly stone that was enshrined on it, and finally fell on the man.
His gaze was too aggressive. Since this village has been making sacrifices for many years, and the man is in charge, it is impossible not to have seen blood.
But the look in Lu Qingjia's eyes made him almost take two steps back, and he forcibly resisted it with will.
The man remembered going out to the mountain with the adults to go to the market when he was a child, and at that time, wanted notices were posted everywhere in the town.
It is said that a murderer who committed more than a dozen murders across provinces fled to the local area. At that time, the case shocked the whole country. It was broadcast on the news every day, and the whole town was panicked.
Just looking at the photo on the wanted notice, the child felt that the murderer was extremely hideous, his disregard for human life, and the power brought by the crime directly impacted the young man at that time through the unclear black and white photos. soul.
He came back that night with nightmares.
But the look in Lu Qingjia's eyes just now made him, who was no longer naive and cowardly, feel the horror at that time.
Even though Lu Qingjia's appearance looks handsome and kind, it's far from the word ruthless, even if he is devout to the mountain god and believes that it is omnipotent.
But still can't offset the impact.
The man's face was a little pale, but he saw Lu Qingjia suddenly approaching.
This startled him, and he even took a few steps back subconsciously.
Lu Qingjia smiled lightly: "Don't be afraid, I won't do anything to you?"
"Didn't you say you can light a lamp to confirm your life? Where is it?"
The man seemed to have only remembered it at this time, and he was quite ashamed of his embarrassment just now.
His attitude towards Lu Qingjia was not good either, so he only led him to a corner and took out three oil lamps from the cabinet inside.
Put it in front of him and said: "Well, you have to order it yourself."
Lu Qingjia said again: "Where are my brother's oil lamps, can you show me?"
The man did not refuse, and Lu Qingjia got two copper-colored wine-glass-sized oil lamps. The edges of the oil lamps were black, and there were obvious signs of use, but they were not dusted, and they were well preserved.
Lu Qingjia glanced at his old uncle's lamp, which was unremarkable except for his name on the bottom of the oil lamp.
He glanced at the candlestick that belonged to him again, and raised his eyebrows at the man.
The man hurriedly said, "What I did for you all night last night was because I was worried that you guys wouldn't know where to go in the end."
Although the lettering under the oil lamp looked fresh, Lu Qingjia was sure that he didn't just rush to work last night, but he didn't break it.
Instead, he picked up the oil lamp of the person who was praying with his uncle, and looked at the place where his name should have been engraved.
[Lu Qingzhou]
Lu Qingjia raised his head suddenly, his eyes caught the man's eyes when he was caught off guard, and his mental power skill was activated: "His name is Lu Qingzhou?"
The man nodded: "Yes, aren't you relatives? You don't know each other?"
Lu Qingjia smiled: "Look at you, I'll just ask a question, why are you talking so much?"
The man held his breath and couldn't go up and down, so he said in a rough voice: "It's done, I'm still busy, you hurry up and turn on the lights."
Lu Qingjia put his oil lamp on the table, but instead asked inexplicably, "I didn't say the main point, I just wanted to take a look."
"But my brother and my sister-in-law's oil lamps are useless, right? Can you keep them for me as a souvenir?"
The man didn't care about the abandoned oil lamp, but had a tricked expression: "You don't order it? Why don't you ask me if you don't order it?"
"Don't be stubborn now, the mountain god punishes people, there are so many tricks, when something really happens, there is no guarantee, what should you ask your parents to do? Look for you everywhere with a glimmer of hope? You are also cruel. "
Lu Qingjia smiled and said nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter, I have left a suicide note. If I don't go home within half a month, I must be dead."
"Since the people are gone, to be honest, I don't really care about what's going on behind me. What's the difference in dying? If it gets in the way, someone will naturally take it away. If it doesn't get in the way, then it's good to return to nature."
He said that Lu Qingjia left directly, and took away the lamp oil in the oil lamp before leaving.
The man was stunned: "Hey, hey! What are you doing? Can this be taken?"
"We don't have much lighting in our house. What's wrong with me taking some lamp oil?" Lu Qingjia looked at him with clear eyes: "Is there something special about this lamp oil that I can't take?"
The man stopped talking and could only watch Lu Qingjia leave.
Lu Qingjia returned to the house arranged for them at noon, when the other two players also returned.
In the morning, each of them had a harvest, and the three of them were too lazy to get food, so they each took food out of the space and exchanged their income while eating.
The extreme player first said: "It is said to worship the mountain god, but I don't think there is anything unusual in the surrounding mountains, or even because of thousands of years of belief instillation, there is no change."
"Generally, even if it starts from ignorance, since the power of evil has already been generated, then things that are poured into as beliefs will inevitably mutate, but there is no such thing here."
The infinite player continued: "When we came yesterday, the dead baby hanging at the entrance of the village didn't die recently. It's almost half a year."
"But the body was preserved, and it was only in the past two days, that is, it was estimated that the curse began to hang."
"I got the news from the children with candy. It is said that every time I have to hang a black cat and a baby girl, the corpse is at the entrance of the village."
"You want a baby girl specifically?" Lu Qingjia confirmed.
"Yes, as long as there is a baby girl, there is no baby boy." Infinite Player said: "With the spell under the bed, I think this village is also contributing to the fire, but I tested it, and the village is indeed full of ordinary people."
"At least in terms of force, it is absolutely impossible to cause direct harm to players of our level, and there is no profession like a goddess in the village. Although people who believe in mountain gods still do live sacrifices in this era, those people's homes seem to have no How many other traces of superstition."
Player Unlimited was born in a remote rural area, and he knew that the more superstitious and prevalent this kind of place was. In fact, it was not difficult to see traces at home, not to mention some taboo placement, worship objects, children's safety charms or ornaments to ward off evil spirits, none of these, at least superficial. does not appear to be.
It really does not fit the style of a very superstitious village.
Lu Qingjia then shared his findings. Apart from the marriage of the old uncle, the two players could hear from the villagers that Lu Qingjia's 'brother' had also returned to the village last time, and was only one of the members of the previous session. The player has only entered that role, and will not doubt that Lu Qingjia and Lu Ji are relatives in reality.
After learning that oil lamps with names had been prepared in the village long before they returned, the two players were even more certain.
"They knew we would be back, and they had already identified who it was."
In addition to the player, escaped outside because of the curse and came back and found that there was only one wave of NPCs who could not break the curse, and they died in the first place.
Although there are people in the village who have maintained a certain degree of contact with the outside world, no matter how you think about it, you will not send back the genealogy of everyone who has spread branches and leaves outside, right
What's more, many people outside have no contact with themselves.
Lu Qingjia said, "Or guess a little more boldly. It's not that they have already determined who is cursed, but that they can control the list of curses every year?"
When the two players heard it, they were stunned for a moment, and immediately became overjoyed.
If so, does that mean the curse list is controllable? If I try to cross out my name—
Lu Qingjia poured a bucket of cold water, and he said with a smile: "Don't think about it, it's impossible, if it can be changed, then the difficulty of this game is not worthy of being an exchange student copy."
"The high probability is that once the curse begins, there is no room for change, but it is still very important to confirm this and even get a method for arranging the curse list."
As he spoke, Lu Qingjia's cell phone rang several times, and it was a WeChat alert tone.
Several players above, it is estimated that they got relevant information outside. Although they moved a step slowly, they decided to return to this village to find clues.
In the end, we have to focus on this place.
Lu Qingjia sent them the coordinates, and these talents realized that he had already passed by, so they became more and more anxious.
After Lu Qingjia sent the coordinates, he was about to speak, when suddenly a layer of transparent bubbles overflowed on his skin.
Two players know that the tricky part of this copy is the ability to riot.
He jumped up quickly and asked, "What's wrong? Do you want to help?"
Lu Qingjia only felt that the air in the bubble was thin, and as he breathed, the oxygen was continuously consumed, and it would only get more and more uncomfortable in the end.
He pointed to the bubble, and the two players reacted and attacked with their own abilities and props.
The result turned out to have no effect on him. The two did not hold back when they saw it. They used the maximum output and even ignored Lu Qingjia's safety several times, but they still did nothing.
This situation was within Lu Qingjia's expectations, but it also made him more and more pleased with the defensive power of the bubble.
Air bubbles will not block the air, or even filter the air, but at this time it is completely an airtight dead space.
Lu Qingjia started to turn red due to lack of oxygen, and several of his aggressive abilities couldn't break the bubbles.
The black cat on the ground showed its claws and wanted to make a move, but Lu Qingjia glared at it and had to withdraw its claws.
In the end, both players became anxious, but saw Lu Qingjia throw out a large pool of silt and drown himself, and his body sank into the silt space.
The two were relieved to see each other escape the bubble alone.
But what they didn't know was that the moment Lu Qingjia fell into the silt space and his toes touched the ground before he could stand firm, his hair swelled suddenly.
Most of them entangled his limbs and even his index finger, and the inside began to drill into his brain. Although the barrier of the celestial body was strong, with the sharpness and speed of a hair, it penetrated the scalp and skull and penetrated into the brain, killing him on the spot. Just a matter of seconds.
And Lu Qingjia was limited in his mobility before he could stabilize his body. According to his inertia, he would fall to the ground, and he could not find his center of gravity for several seconds.
It was quiet outside. The two players breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Lu Qingjia escaped, but no one spoke for the time being.
The bubble that almost suffocated him broke after Lu Qingjia disappeared, leaving a pool of silt on the ground.
The black cat on the ground, however, popped out its claws and cut out three hideous traces on the bluestone ground.