Lu Qingjia raised her head sharply, and the shock that even the continuous mutiny of ability did not bring appeared on her face.
"Me-looks like me?" Lu Qingjia confirmed again.
The woman nodded: "Yes, you all look so good, it's not so easy to forget after seeing them."
"I still remember that it was one night, it was almost midnight, that handsome guy came to the door, and the rented house was so big, I didn't have a place to avoid it, so I just sat by the side and listened."
"At that time, what the two of them said was quite vague. I only thought that the jade was valuable, so when I went to the wedding, I thought that even if I couldn't get the house back, it would hurt his flesh."
Lu Qingjia didn't care about this. He quickly dug out his mobile phone, which contained pictures of the world he took from his uncle's bedroom.
He handed the photo to the woman: "Is it this person?"
The woman is more certain now: "It's him, what's the matter? So you are really brothers?"
Lu Qingjia stood up and didn't answer the woman's question directly, but just smiled: "I see, thank you, just give me the jade buckle, don't worry, I will pay for it."
The woman quickly waved her hand: "No no, you have given enough, take this away."
While speaking, Lu Qingjia had already left here.
Instead of going back to the mountain village, he went straight back to the city where the groom's parents were.
This time there are coordinates, so there is no need to go to the airport to toss, just open the space door, hit the car and kill the other party's house directly.
It was only three days before the unexpected death of the bridegroom, and it was time for the funeral.
The parents of the groom were afraid that the house would not be sold after the funeral in the new house, so they held the funeral in the old community where they lived.
Rent a piece of land in the open space outside the community, set up a few white tents as a mourning hall, and invite one-stop funerals.
When Lu Qingjia arrived, he found the mourning hall following the sound of mourning and music, where the bridegroom's parents and a group of elders and relatives were guarding the mourning.
When they saw Lu Qingjia, they all looked like they had seen a ghost.
After all, he knew that he had returned to his hometown, and there was not one young man who could come out when he returned to his hometown.
So everyone was a little suspicious that he lied to everyone, and didn't go back at all.
The groom's parents asked him, "You ran fast that day, what are you doing now?"
Lu Qingjia said, "I seem to have found the whereabouts of that woman, and I will let you know."
The groom's parents stood up quickly, as if they didn't want Lu Qingjia to speak out in public.
He pulled him to a distance outside the tent and asked anxiously, "Found it? Where is she?"
Lu Qingjia smiled: "Don't ask where she is, just know that she is safe now. She already knows that you miss her too. Let me tell you something so you don't have to worry."
The groom's father wanted to slap him directly, gritted his teeth and said, "Who cares about that bitch's life or death? We have to settle the account with her. She killed my son, and let the white-haired couple send the black-haired one. She has to pay for her life."
Lu Qingjia smiled again: "In our family, isn't it normal for white-haired people to send black-haired people?"
Without waiting for the old couple to scold, they took out the jade button. When the two saw the jade button, they forgot everything, and they reached out to grab it.
But Lu Qingjia took it back and asked with anxious expressions: "How much benefit did the second cousin's family promise to give you?"
"Huh?" The bridegroom's parents were stunned when asked. They were caught off guard and didn't have time to cover up, and they almost had the words 'How do you know?' engraved on their faces. ' This sentence is gone.
Lu Qingjia said to herself again: "You two have lost your only son, so you can only plan for yourself next."
"When you reach your age, the most worrying thing is nothing more than being old and having no one to depend on. If you want to enjoy your later years, one must have money, and the other is to ensure that someone will be there with you."
"I guess that's what the second cousin can give you, right?" Lu Qingjia grinned: "He promised to give you retirement?"
"You, what nonsense are you talking about?" The two panicked: "Da Gang is our own nephew. His brother is gone now, and he will naturally have to support us in the future."
Lu Qingjia raised Yang Yu's buckle and said, "But when my cousin was still alive, people didn't know anything about this."
Lu Qingjia had already guessed the effect of the jade buckle, but at this moment, he had to find the old man and the old lady for final confirmation.
He said directly: "With this life-saving treasure, if it is not useless to your family, would you be willing to tell the second cousin?"
The old couple looked more and more panicked, thinking that Lu Qingjia already knew everything.
This thing has to be hidden in whose hands it works. If everyone knows about it, who won't grab it then? The two of them can't protect it, but they will be hated by all relatives for hiding it for many years.
Then he said cautiously: "Jiajia, you are pitiful for your poor cousin and aunt who are lonely and helpless. We can't do anything about it."
"In this way, if you find something, you will find it. Don't make a noise. It's not good for you, right? We know that you are a filial child, and we will rely on you in the future."
The words are very clear, they just want to use this jade deduction to exchange for the security of old age, which is the same for any junior.
Lu Qingjia is also living in a curse, Yukou is equivalent to life-saving for him, and he can pass it on after giving birth to children.
But as long as they are responsible for supporting the old couple, they will keep their mouths shut, so that other relatives will not be able to make up their minds, and the two sides will not tear their faces. This is mutually beneficial.
Lu Qingjia smiled and did not speak, but did not refute the two.
The old couple took it as he agreed, after all, people wouldn't let life-saving straws go unchecked.
He simply reminded Lu Qingjia: "This thing is not a panacea, you still have to be careful."
"It can help you avoid it once, but it won't work the second time. Otherwise, our family wouldn't have had a dead child, and in the end, there will be no single seedling."
After Lu Qingjia left the mourning hall, he went straight back to the mountain village.
I settled in my room, the lights outside were still on, and the players chatted in the yard to enjoy the coolness.
Everyone knew that Lu Qingjia had left, but to clear this thing, although everyone is in a peaceful relationship now, they are still showing their magic powers, so there is no reason to say anything even if they are anxious.
After returning to the room, Lu Qingjia did not go out, but lay directly on the bed, holding the jade buckle in front of his eyes for details.
The black cat lay on his chest and brushed his cheek with his tail, as if to comfort him.
Lu Qingjia was in a complicated mood, angry and sad, and wanted to laugh for no reason.
The old uncle is a decent person. In reality, in order to teach Lu Qingjia, he always sets a good example for him, and sometimes he even feels a little pedantic.
But Lu Qingjia discovered only now that his uncle's behavior was cunning and flexible.
He mentioned the things he told him, and taught him how to make a bad move. Although the old uncle scolded him with integrity, he was honest in his actual actions.
Lu Qingjia can even outline the picture of the old uncle using money to clear the way and swaggeringly replacing the jade button in front of the groom.
This made Lu Qingjia a little stunned.
But with that comes a strong sense of worthlessness.
According to his investigation, the old uncle's original game was very complete, and he was still holding a life-saving prop in his hand.
The effect of this jade buckle is to counteract an attack for the cursed person. This may have limited effect on ordinary people, but for players who are strong to a certain extent, it is only a respite, which is enough to turn the tide against the wind.
Lu Qingjia asked repeatedly at that time if there was anyone else around when my uncle came to visit.
The woman's answer was no, he was the only one.
Because he saw a jade button and gave him tens of thousands of dollars, with the groom's flattery, when the old uncle left, he personally sent him out of the community.
I didn't see anyone the whole time.
The groom and the woman are not players. On the premise that other players know nothing about this clue, there is no need for the two to separate as a warning. This is not in line with what Lu Qingjia heard from many NPCs. It is the situation that is inseparable from that person.
Then the only possibility is that the old man avoided the person himself and came to the groom's house alone to take the life-saving jade buckle.
This kind of behavior may be reserved for others, but for my uncle - Lu Qingjia hopes that his purpose is to leave a hole card for himself.
However, Lu Qingjia knew exactly what kind of fool he was.
The more he investigated, the more Lu Qingjia hated the fraudster.
He turned over, put the cat in his arms, and put away the fake jade buckle that actually had no function.
Early the next morning, all the players woke up and went out to see Lu Qingjia sitting on a chair with a cat in the yard.
Seeing everyone, he motioned them to sit down: "I have something important to talk about, so sit down first."
Generally speaking, if the players in the game are not in an antagonistic state, as the game progresses, the players will naturally form a clear or default leader based on performance, contribution, and prestige.
Of course, this is the general status quo in low-level fields, but the higher the level of the dungeon, the less it will happen, because everyone is strong, and players of the same level rarely have an overwhelming advantage. Everyone is strong and experienced. Naturally Anyone who is easy to be the answer.
But this copy is too difficult, and compared to the information they have obtained so far, Lu Qingjia seems to be always ahead of them, and the amount of information at his disposal is not of the same level.
The two players who were with him naturally obeyed, and the other players also sat down upon seeing this.
But he didn't want what Lu Qingjia said when he opened his mouth to explode in his ears like thunder again.
Lu Qingjia said: "I know the source of the curse in this village, the form of the curse, the law of the curse, the way to avoid it, and the way to clear the customs."
"I can share this information with you, but only if you follow my instructions."
Everyone was shocked and wanted to question this guy for talking big, but it was not that he had not been beaten in the face, so they looked at each other.
A consensus was reached in the end: "If it's really like what you said, and you've completed it to this point, then it's naturally our blessing to you."
"According to the customs clearance rules, of course, the one who contributes the most will get the big bucks. If you want any benefits, it's natural to ask your brothers to help."
"But the premise is that what you say is true."
Lu Qingjia smiled: "That's why I like games more and more."
Because as the level increases, the difficulty increases, and the people you face become smarter and more aware of current affairs. Many things do not need to be repeatedly emphasized, which saves a lot of effort.
Lu Qingjia threw out a micro projector, the size of a bee, which was also bought by Infinite City, and cast a picture at his eyes.
It was exactly what Lu Qingjia was looking for at the village chief's house yesterday.
He said to the screen: "This is the genealogy and sacrifice records over the years. Excluding those before that, comparing the time of the first session, the status of the host of the sacrifice, the status of the sacrifice, and the year of death of the relatives related to the sacrifice. moon."
"It's easy to conclude that the sacrifice started as a blow to a family."
Following Lu Qingjia's explanation and comparing the key information, everyone found that the sacrifices in the previous two or three sessions were all from the same family. The first-generation priest was the son-in-law of that family, but it seemed that the son-in-law was killing his Yue family.
Most of the people in this village are ignorant, and now, more than half of the village is illiterate, so in the earlier feudal era, it was naturally even more impossible to understand the recorded things.
Before the first generation of priests, the genealogy in the village was also messy, and there was no clean and orderly behind. Looking at the names of the previous priests, they all had the same surname as the first generation, and it also indicated that the previous priests were master-apprentice or foster father-son relationship.
After serving as a priest, one must not marry for life, but it can be seen that over the years, almost only the priests have monopolized the cultural inheritance. In the past, there were occasionally one or two scholars in the village, but after that, there was no such thing.
For thousands of years, the only way out for the whole village is farming. Of course, I said before that the strangeness here has always been a stable and bumper harvest. Whether it is natural disasters or dynasties outside, it has nothing to do with it.
Lu Qingjia said: "The village has maintained the status quo from the first ritual to the next thousand years. It is not difficult to see that the beginning of everything was the work of the first generation of priests."
"Then since he has specially cultivated heirs, other villagers will forget the original reason over time because they are illiterate and ignorant, but the priests will not."
"By digging through the resumes of the first-generation priests, many problems can be found."
"First of all, he has a different surname from the village. As the first priest, he was the first to propose a living sacrifice. His symbol in the village is no different from the endorsement of God, and his resume is naturally recorded."
Talking about the projector screen the size of a bee, it has become the life record of the priests of the past dynasties.
"The first generation of priests lived in seclusion with people in XX years, and married a woman in the village the following year. Within five months of marriage, the woman gave birth to a baby girl, and less than a month later, the baby girl and the black cat raised at home They were both hanged from a tree at the entrance of the village."
"Is this priest trying to avenge his daughter?" A player interjected: "Could it be that in those days, sons were more important than daughters, and the elders did not like the birth of a daughter, so they killed him? The first sacrifice was after his daughter died. In half a year, the village had already suffered from a severe drought and no crops were harvested, so it must have been very difficult when the daughter was born, and it is not strange to kill a baby girl."
Not to mention that at that time, it is now, there are still such things in many places.
Someone else objected: "I don't think so. After five months of marriage, the child came out. Isn't it obvious that he wants to be a father?"
"It is not possible that the child was killed by the priest. Because he was too careful, he took revenge on his wife and the entire family."
"Then you don't have to wait that long, right? The child was born in May of the marriage, which means that you were pregnant when you got married, so you can't see it? If you really don't want that child, you don't have to wait until it's born before you start."
A group of people held their own opinions, but Lu Qingjia said, "This is not the point."
Everyone was shocked and did not expect such an answer. After all, from the record, the death of the baby girl was the beginning of everything.
"Look at the genealogy of that year again." Lu Qingjia said, "The priest's record is to join hands with people to live here in seclusion. What about other people?"
"At that time, in addition to the priests, there were three other families with surnames outside the village, but all of them can be traced back to the ancestors who settled here."
"However, in those few years, except for the priests, there were no records of people with foreign surnames moving in. On the contrary, the first-generation priest's apprentice's handbook contained records of the master's life."
"The other party is often in the back mountain-that is, the place where we found the mountain god flower yesterday to worship. On a certain day every year, we will not enter the water and rice, and sit there for a day."
"The time of this day is also interesting. It turned out to be the day he got married."
The surrounding players tasted it: "You mean, the priest was originally a wild mandarin duck who came here to live in seclusion with his lover."
"As a result, because of his good talent and literacy, he was favored by the big households in the village, and the priest and his lover were disobedient, so he was very likely to be designed to cook cooked rice with raw rice. He is a foreigner who slept with other people's girls in other people's villages. Irresponsible killing you at that time is justified."
"So the priest compromised and got married, but the lover couldn't bear the blow and died on the day of the wedding. Since he died near that family's house, he probably committed suicide."
"This incident brought a great blow to the priest, so he hated his wife and her family, and even killed the newborn child. Through the drought at that time, he encouraged the villagers to live sacrifices and sacrificed the children of his wife's family. The family is cut off and the grandson family is cut off?"
Based on the data records and Lu Qingjia's tips, the crowd opened their minds and concluded.
Lu Qingjia nodded: "The priest is the only learned person in the village. It is recorded that he likes Feng Shui metaphysics. If driven by hatred, he wants to use natural disasters to deceive the villagers, build his reputation, and take revenge on the Yue family. What a problem."
"But I didn't expect that the live sacrifice was actually useful, and the effect was immediate. The villagers were even more convinced. Maybe the priest also saw other hopes in it, but when he presided over the so-called self-made up The wish made by the mountain god is probably not what the villagers hoped, and the village will be in good weather."
"This logic is quite reasonable, but after all, there are too few clues, and many places are made up by guessing, which is not too tenable." Some players questioned: "In the end, a thousand years have passed."
Lu Qingjia smiled: "As long as it's a copy of the game, no matter how much time passes, it's impossible to really bury the truth."
"The records may be missing, but as I said at the beginning, not everyone in the village is kept in the dark."
"The first generation of priests deliberately cultivated heirs and let this scam continue for thousands of years. There must be something he wants to accomplish even if he dies."
"People's life is always limited, so he has to let others complete the unfinished work for him. Now, starting from the escape of a group of young people in the village, it is no longer a traditional sacrifice."
"After all, if the hard target is to sacrifice boys and girls, as long as the villagers can't do it every three years? But the rules that have been formed over thousands of years are obviously more than that."
"People who are cursed outside actually don't care about the people who stay in the village. I haven't heard of any curse affecting the village. As long as they maintain their offerings, they can stand by and watch. So why did the village chief and the others do this and blend in? What about the curse? Greeting us with a dead baby cat girl, making oil lamps, and putting spells under our beds."
"All these points indicate that the sacrifice motives and atmosphere of the entire village and the rules formed have long been different from the original intention. Other villagers may be stupid and don't know it, but some people definitely know it."
"Priests of this generation?" Several people said at the same time.
Lu Qingjia nodded, it was the man who guarded the ancestral hall.
"Then let's go to him for verification now." Someone stood up and said, "I tried it, and he is just an ordinary person. With our ability, as long as we grasp the direction of the problem, it is no problem to ask the truth."
"No, I've already asked." Lu Qingjia said, as a pool of silt appeared on the ground, and after dispersing, it was a scene where the man was tied up with five flowers and gagged his mouth.
No wonder Lu Qingjia boasted at the very beginning that he had cracked everything, and he had already confirmed it.
At this moment, his words became more credible, and some players asked directly: "Then what is the law of the curse?"
"Excluding the person who died suddenly yesterday, you are the only one who has experienced the curse more than once. If it is shared equally, this is obviously not in line with the law."
Lu Qingjia said, "Don't include me. My case has no reference value for finding the law, but it will disturb your judgment."
"What did you say?"
"why?"
"Are all players different from the same starting point?"
Everyone was a little shocked, because the game is about absolute fairness, and the treatment of players should be similar according to the rules, which is also one of the things players care about most.
Lu Qingjia was targeted by the curse alone. Although the players are not feeling outraged for him, the injustice is definitely worrying.
However, Lu Qingjia motioned everyone to calm down: "The reason I am cursed is because my blood relatives have come to this game. It may be a curse inherited from that time, so it was not good for me from the beginning."
"But on the contrary, because following the opponent's customs clearance idea can solve the truth of the dungeon more efficiently, this is both a risk and a benefit to me, so there is no need to question the fairness of the game."
Of course, the real reason is definitely more than that, but there is no need to say more Lu Qingjia.
But what he revealed was enough to surprise everyone.
Lu Qingjia continued: "The order in which the curse begins is based on the order in which the oil lamps were made. The players who died yesterday were the first to collect body tissue and make lamp oil, so they were the first to die after returning to the village."
"I have already asked him the order." Lu Qingjia glanced at the man on the ground.
The man stared at him desperately trying to make a sound.
No one paid any attention to him, Lu Qingjia sent the order to the players, the one in the front was naturally worried, while the one in the back was slightly relieved.
But before he let go, he heard Lu Qingjia say, "But don't trust this order too much, after all, you can find a scapegoat."
When Lu Qingjia said this, she looked closely at the expressions of the people around her.
In the stiff look of everyone, he said: "As long as it is your turn to order, put the mountain god flower representing the sacrifice on other players, and someone will accept the curse on your behalf."
As soon as these words came out, everyone took a deep breath, and almost everyone took a step back, watching the surrounding teammates become vigilant.
Only one person, the reaction was half a beat slower.
Lu Qingjia grinned, and the scalpel in his hand slashed quickly, but when he was about to touch the other's skin, it was blocked.
Lu Qingjia wasn't surprised that the attack failed. He didn't know when the silt had appeared at the opponent's feet. At the same time, he activated his powerful speed and melee ability, and attacked at a rhythm that was almost indistinguishable to the naked eye.
It stands to reason that among the intermediate players present, Lu Qingjia's strength is the most powerful. His current strength has surpassed that of many advanced players. This was stamped by two administrator-level people.
Lu Qingjia's attack of this level and the entanglement of his ability, he was beaten into a puddle of meat by now for an average intermediate player.
His strength is the strongest in this dungeon, which is also recognized by all the players present.
However, to everyone's surprise, the player who looked mediocre before was able to survive Lu Qingjia's powerful raid unscathed, and even dealt with it quite calmly.
After fighting a few tricks, the opponent no longer pretended to be low-key, showing an expression of interest—
"As that person said, you can't be negligent in front of you."