Seeing that the sharp blade was about to pierce Lu Qingjia's forehead, the surrounding players only had time to show their expressions of astonishment.
Everyone seemed to see the scene of his blood splashing, but when they came back to their senses, they found that the blade stopped just outside Lu Qingjia's skin, and could no longer move forward.
A strand of hair on the back of his head grew longer at some point, and one wrapped around the blade. The hair was flexible and strong, and the seemingly indestructible blade could not be cut or broken free.
When the sneak attack failed, the corpse on the ground suddenly opened its eyes, and a blade popped out of its knuckles, rushing towards Lu Qingjia.
But since Lu Qingjia was able to respond to unexpected sneak attacks, it would be even more of a concern in the future.
The player's corpse quickly condensed into a large ice lump, maintaining an attacking posture, and stopped in place like a statue.
It can be seen that the other party is trying to break free, but apart from the slight movement of the fingertips, it is impossible to regain control over the body.
Seeing this, the surrounding players regained their breath: "Here, he's not dead yet?"
"Why did he attack you?"
Lu Qingjia said: "Dead."
As he said, he pushed the 'ice sculpture' down. Because of the impact he received after being frozen, one of his hands shattered directly after he fell to the ground and splattered aside.
Lu Qingjia unlocked the Frost ability, a scalpel appeared in his hand, and he cut off the opponent's joints and meridians in three or two strokes, making the opponent unable to move.
However, even if it became a puddle of soft meat, the opponent still persevered and wanted to attack Lu Qingjia.
Lu Qingjia's hand wrapped in bubbles pressed the opponent's head, and the scalpel accurately found somewhere, and cut out a small black bug from it.
When the worm leaves the body, the corpse has no movement, and it has completely become a dead corpse.
"Is this being planted?" said a player with horror games.
"When did he get Gu? Why did he stare at Brother Lu to attack?"
Although everyone in this dungeon has the surname Lu, and most of the cursed players have the surname Lu, but unlike Lu Qingjia's coincidence, other players' surnames are not actually this.
But you guys aren't fools either, that unlucky guy who just died has little chance of planting such a thing for himself and turning himself into a walking corpse.
And even if he planted Gu, why didn't he catch Lu Qingjia and attack? Before Lu Qingjia came back, it was not that no player encountered his body because of the inspection, and it was fine at the time, but Lu Qingjia had a problem.
In this way, the matter became obvious: "Who was he being tricked by?"
"The three of us went back to the village yesterday. Except for the wedding at the beginning, we didn't meet with everyone, right?" The player of the extreme game said: "After the wedding groom died, everyone dispersed, and at night When Mr. Lu found out that everyone pulled everyone into a group, it was the first time online."
"After one night, the three of us came back as a team, and a few of us were still in the city. Before that, all of you met, and we came here in a team all the way. Is this the time for contact?"
The meaning is very clear, unless there are other hidden threats, otherwise the most suspicious of the unfortunate ghost who died is the few players who came with them.
What's more, the difficulty of the game is already so great, and the possibility of hidden threats is extremely low, so he can almost confirm his guess.
A player who came with him was unhappy when he heard this: "You are quick to solve the case."
"It's really good that you can become an exchange student, but don't think of other intermediate players as fools. There are so many of us, if anyone has a move, they won't notice it at all?"
"It's typical to invest in a skill with a small power but a lot of power, so it is decided that either the program is responsible for the high requirements, or there is a very high strength to suppress it so that it can be done without anyone noticing."
"To tell the truth, although everyone has been working happily so far, you don't believe whoever trusts you more, right? Then why are you throwing the suspicion on us rudely? Did you guys come a day earlier? It's not that I haven't left the village since I entered the game."
The extreme player sneered when he heard the words: "Okay, even if there are other possibilities, but in terms of the ability to be sneaky, which is the threat of your horror games? It's not that our two games do not have similar copies, but the number is as scary as yours. Compared to the game, it's really negligible."
"If you put these two points together, I won't say the final conclusion, but you have to admit that in terms of probability, your suspicions are far greater than our facts, right?"
Seeing the dignified atmosphere on both sides, the players of Infinite Games hurriedly smoothed the game: "Hey, don't say that, we are not the police to solve the case, and it is not good for anyone to doubt each other now."
He changed the subject again and said, "Brother Lu, the two tricks you just used, I remember, were the ability to betray."
Lu Qingjia nodded: "Fortunately, at least for now, except for the time of mutiny, other times are still free and flexible, and it does not hinder the use."
The eyes of the infinite player flashed.
He acted with Lu Qingjia, and saw with his own eyes that the betrayal of his Frost ability and the noon bubble ability almost suffocated him to death.
Especially the bubble ability, this is a crisis that only happened for a few hours.
But only so much time has passed. Lu Qingjia dares to continue to trust and use his abilities without hesitation, and use them without hesitation in times of crisis, and his body does not show even a second of instinctual hesitation because of the betrayal of his abilities. .
It shows that the other party really doesn't care about it.
Not to mention, this powerful nerve alone makes people feel terrifying.
I haven't seen a few other players who have a relationship with the ability of others who they have seen with their own eyes. They are already discussing how to use less ability.
The Infinite Player asked again: "But how did you know that he had a Gu worm in his head?"
Lu Qingjia said: "I have the ability to see through, so seeing through the human body is not a problem."
Seeing that the players around him were a little stiff, Lu Qingjia smiled: "Don't worry, as a player of this level, the brain and important organs are wrapped with spiritual power, which can isolate prying eyes, my perspective is not strong enough to directly See through the living you."
"If you want to say it, you can at most penetrate your limbs, but this person is dead and his spiritual power is dissipated, so it's not a problem."
I don't know how much they believed this, but at least the atmosphere on the face eased a little.
A spray gun appeared in Lu Qingjia's hand and turned the switch on the dead body.
This airbrush was bought from Infinite Games and can quickly cremate corpses, targeting worlds where corpses can pose a threat, such as zombie copies.
Lu Qingjia explained: "If you don't clean it up, the player's body will be turned into lamp oil, which will continue the next curse, and it will be useless to keep it."
Everyone has no objection to this, after all, it is not a real companion, and the corpse of the character who died in the game is meaningless.
After cleaning up, Lu Qingjia said, "Okay, let's go up the mountain to find some clues, do you want to join us?"
Some people chose to act with Lu Qingjia, but more chose to explore intelligence alone.
After all, Lu Qingjia and the others came a day earlier, and they had an advantage. Although it is still peaceful now, no one can say whether he will adulterate the information he shares. With players' vigilance and suspicion, they are more willing to believe in what they discovered.
Lu Qingjia did not insist, and followed the villagers' directions to a certain place in the back mountain.
At this time, it was the flowering period, and as they described it, the color of this land was obviously different from the surrounding.
Originally, they were ordinary flowers scattered all over the mountains and plains. The soil was tens of meters away from the three colors of white, blue and purple. In this land less than 100 meters in diameter, it became blood-soaked red.
Lu Qingjia looked at the terrain. It was obviously very suitable for living here. Looking at the surrounding traces, someone should have built houses here a long time ago. Lu Qingjia even saw a dry well, and when he went down, he could find a foundation made of stone. lived in someone else's home.
But now it has degenerated into a wasteland, and the surroundings are deserted. No one has built houses here, and no one has opened up farming.
The flat terrain here, coupled with the fact that it is very close to the houses in the village, is obviously impossible to leave a good piece of land abandoned in a village mainly based on farming.
Lu Qingjia went back to the girl's house, called out her grandma again, and asked what happened to the land, why no one was farming or building houses on it.
The girl's grandmother shook her head: "No way, where can the mountain god flower bloom, where can I spoil it? It will be struck by thunder and lightning."
Lu Qingjia asked again: "Actually, I want to ask, in what year did the sacrifice begin?"
The girl's grandmother shook her head: "I can't remember."
"Is there always a record of the list of sacrifices?" Lu Qingjia said: "This kind of thing should be passed down from generation to generation like a genealogy."
This time, the girl's grandmother nodded: "Yes, Shanwazi has it for thousands of years."
Shan Wazi is the village head, and the old lady is older and has the right to be called that.
Lu Qingjia left with satisfaction, and immediately found the village chief, who also heard that one of them had died.
Shaking his head and sighing, "Sorry, kids."
Lu Qingjia smiled and said, "How can you say that, life and death have fate, rather than meaningless ending, it is very important to serve the mountain god, and you should be happy, village chief."
Village head: "..."
Sure enough, the second devil is more evil than the big devil. If the village chief has read psychology, he should know that the current performance of this guy is called 'converter fanaticism'.
Lu Qingjia added: "By the way, the village chief, in order to better serve the mountain gods and understand all the past, of course, there is also a trace of my bloodline. I want to see the sacrifice records and genealogy of the past dynasties, okay?"
The village chief was also generous, and agreed without thinking.
It's just that you can only see it here, you can't take it away.
Lu Qingjia smiled and said: "That's just right, I'll have a meal at your house in the evening. I like to eat twice-cooked pork and fish-flavored shredded pork. I think the eggplant you planted outside looks pretty good. Let's have a salad with eggplant. Thank you, cousin. "
According to the seniority, the village chief is also Lu Qingjia's cousin.
Seeing this guy is so shameless, the village chief was so angry that he couldn't get up.
But it seemed stingy to ask for a meal, so he could only drive away the children at home who came to watch the fun: "Go, go, do your homework, what to play?"
Then, when Lu Qingjia looked at the genealogy and sacrificial records, he found something incredible.
A village has existed for more than a thousand years, and the weather has always been good, and the inheritance has never been cut off. How small is this probability
However, according to the timeline, this is exactly the case. After the first live sacrifice, the villagers did not encounter major disasters.
Whether it is natural or man-made disasters or the change of dynasties, the mountain village has been forgotten by all disasters. Judging from the surface records, this living sacrifice really does make the village safe and prosperous.
Ignoring the initial record, Lu Qingjia came to the time of the first live sacrifice. The record is that there was a severe drought at that time, and the sacrifice was originally offered in the village to pray for rain.
Sure enough, the next day he got what he wanted, and after that, offering sacrifices became a practice.
Lu Qingjia glanced at the names of the first batch of sacrifices. It was still a thousand years ago, and these records were of course re-transcribed.
After digging out the corresponding genealogy of the year, Lu Qingjia quickly realized that something was wrong.
Because the first batch of boys and girls were actually a pair of brothers and sisters.
Generally speaking, this kind of living sacrifice, no matter what the name is, the family who sacrificed will always be mourned, not to mention having a family sacrifice two children at the same time.
Either the family was lonely and bullied in the village, or there was a specific screening method, and it was really just the blood mold.
Lu Qingjia asked the girl's grandmother, the rules of sacrifice for thousands of years, not to pick out the background and other conditions.
The first is under fifteen years old, and the second is innocence. It is enough to satisfy both.
As for the source of the offerings, if there are sick or disgusted children in the family, they can offer sacrifices on their own initiative.
Of course, if you take the initiative to sacrifice, you can be exempted from participating in the next three sessions. Therefore, in order to save a specific child, it is not impossible for some families to take the initiative to send an unexpected child to death.
Girls are not on the genealogy, but the girls who sacrificed are different. No matter how unimportant they were during their lifetime, as long as they serve the mountain gods, they are of great significance.
So Lu Qingjia can easily see the origin of the sacrifices of the past dynasties.
The first generation of boys and girls came from one family, and the second generation still belonged to that family, and then that family disappeared.
What's even more exciting is that the first-generation sacrifice, that is, the person who proposed and presided over the live sacrifice, was actually the son-in-law of the family.
That son-in-law was the only long-lived person in the entire family. He lived eighty-nine times and presided over more than twenty sacrifices.
In the end, he died and was buried in the back mountain—
"Uncle Tang, Uncle Tang, come down." Lu Qingjia shouted at the top of his throat while cuddling his cat.
The village chief came over impatiently: "What? What are you doing?"
"Where is this priest's burial?"
There was a strange expression on the village chief's face, as if it was not the first time to answer this question.
He said, "It's the one where the mountain gods are blooming. The first-generation worshipers were the ones closest to the mountain gods, so naturally they had to be buried in the blessed land."
Lu Qingjia suddenly smiled: "Blessed land? Not necessarily?"
He turned to the page of the genealogy: "According to the description, his Yue family lived there at the beginning, and then the whole family died. Since then, it has been desolate. How can you say that it is a blessed land?"
The village chief's teeth are sour: "Blessed land also depends on whether it can bear it. His family's fortune is poor and he can't bear it. Isn't that what it is?"
Lu Qingjia asked again: "The first generation sacrifice was buried there. Did the villagers decide later, or did he ask for it himself?"
"How do I know this?" The village chief said with a smile, "It's been a thousand years, and it's impossible for me to dig out the bones to help you ask."
Lu Qingjia looked at him and said with a smile: "Why do you do this? Don't tell me what you know, then I will sue you in front of the mountain god. You are a living person and I am a dying person. It's a good deal. ?"
"Don't use this thing as a raft." The village chief said: "Who is really afraid that you will not succeed as a little boy?"
Lu Qingjia spread her hands: "I'm here. Anyway, it's not the first time I've said it to you. You have to say it, and you have to say it if you don't."
The village chief sneered: "Why?"
"I know who is the insider who is out with you." Lu Qingjia said.
"what?"
Lu Qingjia casually said, "You guys have already prepared the oil lamps of your life. I took a chance to look through the oil lamps this year. It's the same as the name of the person who came back. You can't say that you are a prophet, right?"
"The only possibility is that someone outside has already discussed this list with you, and communicated with each other."
Of course, Lu Qingjia couldn't say that it was hard evidence obtained by tracing back the composition of the lamp oil, but the fact was that it was enough.
Seeing the village chief's disdainful expression of 'you open your mouth', Lu Qingjia said, "Uncle Tang, this is easy to investigate."
"First of all, cooperate with the village to kill the lives of the people of the same family who have already left the mountain. If this kind of thing is not driven by huge interests or crisis, most people will not do this and it will continue for so many years."
"Although the village has no worries about food and clothing, it's a joke to say how much benefit it can get to bribe those people in the city."
"Then the only restraint is to curse this piece."
"What good will harming other young people? If there is no interest, then there is only self-protection. Because if the curse list of each session can be manipulated, then there is a possibility of evasion."
"So the logic is connected. Some people don't hesitate to send other people's children to die for the long-term well-being of their own family."
The village chief's face turned ugly.
But Lu Qingjia didn't get to the point before he continued: "Since the motive is locked, it is easy to speculate on the logic of the behavior."
"The curse can't be generated by directly writing someone's name. I'm afraid there are certain procedures in the middle, right? This person who cooperates with you must first meet two conditions."
"The first person who can contact the entire family outside and walk around often without appearing to be disobedient at all means that this family is usually long-sleeved and good at dancing and has a good relationship with almost all families."
"Secondly, no one in his family has died. After all, there were so many people who escaped back then. Even if the branches and leaves have spread over the years, the number of people is limited, and it will never be his turn. The probability is too small, and in a group of The unfortunate people are especially lucky, they will attract hatred, and they cannot maintain condition one."
"But in today's society, to fake a person's death is actually not scrutinized."
Lu Qingjia took out his mobile phone, opened an interface, and faced the village chief and said to him: "I selected a few people I suspected, and after a little investigation, I found that one of the family members had long-term contacts with an unfamiliar account on social networks."
"Thanks to the push function of the major software now, it took a little time and patience to find out who I am, and it turned out to be a son of their family who has been dead for ten years."
"However, the other party has now changed his name and surname to live abroad. If there is no accident, he will never meet the family members for the rest of his life, but it is easy to hide it."
Sweat dripped from the village chief's face, and his lips turned pale.
Lu Qingjia approached him with a smile and said, "Uncle Tang, if I bring this matter out, do you think that before the next three years come, will I be able to find someone to replace him?"
"No, it's not a matter of finding a substitute. Once the matter is exposed, the clansmen outside will doubt each other and completely cut off contact with each other, and most of them will choose to secretly move to a place where no one knows each other. Don't talk about it then. To meet the requirements of the curse, it is difficult to find anyone."
"Of course, I believe that the gods of the mountains can still curse them, but the task that belongs to you cannot be completed, and the problem is big."
"Oh yes, and after learning the truth, I can't guarantee that the angry clansmen will not retaliate against the village."
"You must know that although no one has been doing well in these years, driven by the pain of losing a child, it is still uncertain what a person's madness can do."
After Lu Qingjia finished speaking, the smile on his face disappeared, and the whole person's expression became bossy: "Now, is Uncle Tang willing to answer my question properly?"
"You, you say it!"
Lu Qingjia came out from the village chief's house full of food and drink in the evening, not to mention the village chief's wife's craftsmanship is not bad, the local pork in the countryside is delicious, and the twice-cooked pork fried with garlic sprouts and sharp peppers is fragrant and fragrant, and the fish-flavored shredded pork is also delicious. , Garlic eggplant refreshing appetizer.
When Lu Qingjia was eating, he brought the cat to the table to eat together, and the village chief dared not speak out.
In the end, Lu Qingjia was sent away like a village tyrant.
After Lu Qingjia returned to the room, she sent a message to the woman who was making a fuss about the wedding, saying that the groom's family was looking for her everywhere.
The woman trusted Lu Qingjia, so she told him the reason for her guess: "I guess she asked me for the jade buckle."
"What jade buckle?"
"That bitch's ancestor said it was passed down from male to female, and you can wear it at any time." The woman said, "But on the wedding day, I ripped it off while I was in a mess. I wanted to fall and disgust him. ."
The next thing was that Lu Qingjia gave her money. She moved out overnight. When the groom's parents collected the body, they found that the ancestral treasure was missing. After checking the surveillance of the wedding scene, she naturally knew that she took it away.
At first, the woman didn't take it seriously, and she didn't want Lu Qingjia to think she was a bad person who was greedy for money, so she didn't say anything about it.
Lu Qingjia said, "Can you give me that thing?"
"Okay, I'm in XX District of XX City, come and get it anytime you want."
At this moment, if there is anyone who can make a woman voluntarily reveal her whereabouts, only Lu Qingjia has no doubt.
Lu Qingjia said: "Sure, I'll come over in a while."
"Now? You happen to be in this city?" The woman was surprised.
Lu Qingjia also admitted, but just opened any door to return to the city, bought a first-class ticket to that city at a high price, and appeared in that city three hours later.
When I found the woman, it was about ten o'clock in the evening.
When the woman opened the door, she could see that she had been doing well the past two days, and that the rented house was in a good environment. She said she wanted to settle down here.
After chatting for a while, he took out the jade buckle. It looked like it was a few years old, but Lu Qingjia didn't feel any special spiritual power.
Lu Qingjia was a little strange, this piece of jade was worth a lot, but it was not enough to ask people to ask for repayment regardless of their son's new mourning, and he hesitated to say what they were looking for.
According to Lu Qingjia's guess, the things in women's hands should be very important to them.
It's so important that even if the groom dies, the family that comes with the groom's parents can benefit from it.
Why is only the family following along to ask for repayment? All Lu Qingjia can think of is that the benefits cannot be divided equally.
But now Lu Qingjia obviously couldn't feel the special features of this jade buckle, so he asked the woman, "Apart from this? What else is important to them? Think about it."
The woman thought about it for a long time, and finally shook her head: "No, I know that their son will have to settle accounts with me when they die, so I left in a hurry, so I brought documents, money and personal belongings, and I don't need much, if anything else Things, they should have found it by themselves in my rental house."
Seeing Lu Qingjia frowning, the woman suddenly said, "By the way, I thought of one more thing before you came."
"This jade buckle, someone asked that slut to ask for it three years ago, but the slut didn't give it, such a stingy and greedy guy, who would spend a million to buy it, he actually gritted his teeth and didn't sell it."
"But then the man said that he would give him tens of thousands of dollars, just look at it, and the slut agreed, because the slut later quarreled with me for a long time, and I was very impressed by this."
Looking at Lu Qingjia: "By the way, the person who wants to buy jade buttons looks a lot like you."