At this time, Gu Xizhou had already closed the window of the toilet, and then several black shadows gradually grew larger from far to near. The faceless monster who was pinched by Gu Xizhou's neck looked at Gu Xizhou with a pair of big eyes that looked a little aggrieved. His companion was pressing his face against the window, but because of the newspaper, he didn't know there was someone in the toilet.
Ghost: What's choking me OAO
"That's good, don't worry, as long as you're good, I'll let you go after asking." Gu Xizhou smelled the strong smell of blood, raised his brows slightly, and said in a low voice, "I'll find out your face."
Ghost: "?"
…
In the room, two human figures were outlined on the window of the room. Fu Yiran sat on the bed and wrapped himself in a quilt, with his back to the figure on the window behind him.
About two hours later, Gu Xizhou released his grip on the monster with satisfaction, and while roughly throwing it out, he just bumped into another faceless monster standing outside in his place. The monster roared, want to rush over-
Faceless, who had been beaten by Gu Xizhou, grabbed its 'little sister' and disappeared into the night like a fly.
Gu Xizhou left the bathroom and came out. At this time, Fu Yiran wrapped his body in a quilt and sat on the bed. Seeing Gu Xizhou, he seemed relieved.
Seeing Gu Xizhou sitting on the edge of the bed, a pair of black eyes looked at Gu Xizhou silently in the dark, until Gu Xizhou lay back on the bed, he asked in a strangely low voice, "Hey, are you going to sleep?"
Gu Xizhou pointed to the figures outside the window and whispered, "Why don't you sleep? Go out and chat with them?"
Fu Yiran wrapped the quilt and looked back at the figure on the window, "..."
The last day.
As soon as Gu Xizhou opened the door, he could smell the fragrance of the food.
When they walked into the dining room, they met the woman who had been cooking for them for the past few days. The table was filled with sumptuous meals, even more abundant than yesterday's dinner. Fu Yiran sat down and said suspiciously, "Today Why is the breakfast so rich?"
The potbellied woman wiped her hands with a handkerchief, smiled and said, "Tomorrow will be the ancestor worship."
"Oh," Fu Yiran nodded as a matter of course, "I understand, it's very humane!"
Si Yu: "… "
Gu Xizhou: "..."
Everyone: "… "
Liu Kai, who was supported by someone, trembled slightly when he heard these words, and the expression on his face was uglier than crying.
When eating breakfast, the atmosphere was very depressed for a while, Gu Xizhou noticed that Fu Yiran was very relaxed, and Gu Xizhou had hastily eaten breakfast, and the group entered the ancestral hall again.
As soon as they started, the woman inside began to cry again, and needles fell from the sky.
The face under the piece of marble that the man who disappeared yesterday had disappeared, and Gu Xizhou was so sharp that he realized that the number of women crying today seemed to be less than yesterday.
"Hey... This time it's really not going to work. It's over. It's not a loss. I have advanced gastric cancer and I should have died." One of the teammates sat down dejectedly, obviously giving up.
And Fu Yiran also sat aside, propped his chin with one hand, looked at the sky outside, and sighed, "Don't talk about it, the needles in the sky are pretty good."
"Gu Ran, look, those needles twinkling under the sun, do they look like stars?!" Fu Yiran pointed to the sky outside and shouted to Gu Xizhou.
Gu Xizhou walked to his side and frowned, glanced at Fu Yiran, and asked in a low voice, "Aren't you afraid?"
Fu Yiran winked playfully at him and said, "I'm afraid, but I know that there are at least two people here who can take me out alive."
Gu Xizhou: "?"
"But compared to another person, I hope you take me out." Fu Yiran said.
Gu Xizhou: "What do you mean?"
Gu Xizhou looked at Fu Yiran and had some doubts. Did he hear that he tortured the female ghost in the bathroom yesterday to extract a confession
But when Gu Xizhou asked again, Fu Yiran stopped talking, a pair of black eyes just looked at him with a slight smile, no longer answering Gu Xizhou's question, and looked at the sky in the distance.
Just when Si Yu was struggling with the meaning of the Buddha statue, Gu Xizhou said to Si Yu: "The current situation is that we have to stand on black marbles to break other marbles, and some marbles should have no faces under them. The problem now is How can you tell which marbles don't have their faces under them!"
"Did you think of something?" Si Yu asked, putting down the plaque in his hand.
"Well... I was thinking about it before going to bed yesterday," Gu Xizhou said. "The base makeup on the Buddha statues should not only limit those monsters, but also a reminder that there is a reason for the different number of Buddha statues."
Si Yu, who was thinking about things with his head down, glanced sideways at Gu Xizhou, and said casually, "I also think those Buddha statues are the key reminder."
Gu Xizhou looked at Si Yu and said, "...I'm just making an analogy. We treat each piece of marble as a square, and there is a Buddha statue on one of the squares, which means that there is only one square next to the Buddha statue with a human face, and there are three The Buddha statue represents that there are three squares with human faces around this grid.”
"There are many Buddha statues on the ground, and the circles between them can confirm each other and help us determine the position of the human face under the marble!"
"..." Si Yu glanced at him, "Minesweeper?"
Hearing this sentence, Gu Xizhou was stunned for a moment. Yesterday, he and the female ghost figured out the purpose of the Buddha statue for a long time. He spent a lot of time trying to figure out the rules. I dropped two words.
Gu Xizhou carefully thought about his communication with the female ghost. Si Yu used the word mine sweeping without any problem. What he said just now was mine sweeping in a completely different way, "Yes."
The Buddha statue is a digital reminder in the mine-sweeping game. The human face buried in the ground is the mine in the game. The only difference is that the game will not be over when stepping on the mine, but the person who steps on the mine will die, and all they have to do is dig the mine. come out.
Si Yu glanced at the range of the black marble and found the position where the teammate who disappeared yesterday was standing. Judging from the position of the surrounding Buddha statues, according to the rules of mine clearance, this piece of marble does indeed have 'mine' underneath.
"It is indeed possible." Si Yu said softly after a while.
Seeing that Si Yu was a little hesitant, Gu Xizhou said: "I'll come, you must write down all the positions, you say I'll do it."
There seemed to be hundreds of women crying at the same time in the ancestral hall, and the tears kept flowing. Gu Xizhou looked at Si Yu and asked, "Don't worry! We will go back."
Si Yu stared at him for a while, then looked at the sky outside, and finally nodded reluctantly, his eyes fell on the Buddha statue and marble for a moment, and said to Gu Xizhou: "I remember, let's start from here."
Si Yu pointed to a piece of marble not far from him and asked Gu Xizhou to stand on it.
Gu Xizhou smashed the first marble, nothing... Si Yu kept his eyes on him, and then Gu Xizhou smashed the second marble. Si Yu kept staring at the soles of Gu Xizhou's feet, making sure that Gu Xizhou smashed the first marble. After the two marbles were all right, he breathed a sigh of relief.
After Gu Xizhou smashed the third and fourth pieces one after another, Si Yu obviously lost his nervousness. He leaned back against the crying wall and commanded in a low voice, but his eyes did not leave Gu Xizhou.
Until Gu Xizhou smashed all the thunder, at that moment, the crying on the wall stopped abruptly.
Gu Xizhou looked up and saw that the surrounding walls were slowly infested with blood, and a blood-colored human figure appeared, just like when Liu Kai sat on the Buddha statue that day, the only difference was that these women neither laughed nor cried.
The faceless women left the wall and shuttled among the four of them until they reached the broken bricks in front of Gu Xizhou. One of the women buckled a face on the ground, and they passed it on to each other until one of them had no face. The woman stopped when she got the face, she spread the face over her hands, and then covered its face with her hands.
It was an ordinary-looking woman, and it showed a satisfied smile, and then its body began to crumble and dissipate like a weathered stone.
The last faceless woman walked towards Gu Xizhou hesitantly with her face in her hands. She seemed a little scared. Gu Xizhou recognized at a glance that it was the one he beaten up last night!
It put the face she just got on her face, Gu Xizhou saw a gentle and beautiful woman, she had a unique temperament, her eyes were smiling, her mouth moved, although there was no sound, Gu Xizhou felt Xizhou vaguely guessed what the other party meant.
She is saying thank you.
As the last 'it' dissipated, the entire ancestral hall was suddenly silent.
Standing outside, Fu Yiran grabbed the plaque on the ground, and with the help of another companion, put the plaque on it, and Fu Yiran jumped off the ladder and said, "It's done!"
"The people in this village are really perverted. They put their faces on the ground and let thousands of people step on them." Fu Yiran sighed.
Another frowned and asked, "Why did they do that?"
"Open the door and go in and you'll know." Fu Yiran sneered, "It's just the dregs of history."
Saying that, Fu Yiran took a step towards Gu Xizhou and smiled at him, "See you next time."
Gu Xizhou: "..." Who wants to see you!
The man heard the words, said the same thing, and then did not hesitate. He wanted to leave a long time ago. He said thank you to a few people and pushed the door away. After Fu Yiran and Gu Xizhou finished talking, he did not talk to Si Yu. , smiled and walked into the door.
Gu Xizhou and Si Yu had to go back to find Liu Kai who was left in the house, so they didn't push the door and leave immediately, they went back to pick up Liu Kai.
"Don't worry, leave the mission world, your eyes should be fine." Si Yu interrupted Liu Kai's thanks, and after Gu Xizhou and the two forced Liu Kai to enter the door, Si Yu made a request to Gu Xizhou Gesture, "You go first."
"Well." Gu Xi nodded and said, "See you outside."
Gu Xizhou opened the wooden door, just like before, his consciousness soon became blurred—
It seemed that at night, the woman was locked in a narrow and dark place, and she saw fires coming in through the paper-pasted windows outside, which seemed to be torches, because the light source was a little erratic.
The woman felt extreme fear, she was calling for help, she wanted to escape from here, but no matter how much she struggled, beat, and called for help, the people outside seemed to be unable to hear her voice, they did not come here at all, but instead is going further and further.
The woman squeezed the board with her fingernails, scratching out traces until the nails broke and blood flowed out. She kept struggling, but the rope on her body trapped her.
This story seems to have no logic, Gu Xizhou only felt that time seemed to be fast-forwarded—
About the third day.
"Zheng Xianggong, I can't find your wife! She must have met some bad person, right?" a man in ancient fast-catching clothes asked with a frown.
The man known as Zheng Xianggong said anxiously: "Look again, I won't, my lady..."
"But I really can't find it. Zheng Xianggong, you have just been promoted, and the lord of the government office intends to praise you, but the young lady will definitely not be a small one..." The yamen servant pulled Zheng Xianggong aside and continued: "It's better to take advantage of it. This is the opportunity to marry the daughter of the mansion's lord as his wife."
"You, what are you talking about! It's insulting!" Zheng Xianggong waved his hand away, throwing away the government office, and said righteously.
Zheng Xianggong searched for a whole day, but still could not find his wife. He dragged his tired body to bid farewell to his relatives and friends. He closed the door of the yard, and there were whispers of friends and relatives discussing outside.
"Hmph, that is, Zheng Xianggong is still willing to find that woman. She looks pitiful and very attractive. I'm afraid she didn't get lost, but ran away with that wild man?"
"No, the Zheng Liu family is too beautiful to look after."
"I heard that Zheng Xianggong was attracted by the mansion's daughter. I don't know if it's true?"
"It's true, I heard a few friends talk about this last time, and the daughter of the government is still arguing about not marrying Zheng Xianggong! It's just that Zheng Liu's family has been in Zheng Xianggong's family before this, and Zheng Xianggong is an upright person and is unwilling to marry. Abandoned the scumbag wife and refused. I think there is a turning point now."
A few people whispered while walking. Zheng Xianggong listened for a while until he could no longer hear the discussion, and then returned home. He returned home, walked into the room, took off the heavy objects on the cabinet, and opened the house. the cabinet—
Gu Xizhou's brain is very clear at this time, the woman's body has no temperature, the originally soft body seems to have turned into a block of ice, the top door of the man's cabinet, Gu Xizhou can see the man's appearance clearly.
The hand was very painful, it was very painful, Gu Xizhou looked down at the woman's hand, the blood on the woman's index finger had solidified, she was so angry, she saw the light and thought that she had finally had a long time, but when she saw clearly the appearance of the people who opened the cabinets When the woman burst into tears.
Suddenly there was no fear of death, no pain, she felt nothing.
Gu Xizhou saw a memory, a woman's memory—
In the yard, a beautiful and gentle woman is sitting on a small wooden bench, washing her clothes diligently. There are many clothes in front of her, but it doesn't seem to be hers, because there are many gorgeous clothes, not like women can wear them. of.
During the day, when the sun was at its highest, she sat there until sunset when she finished washing the pile of clothes in front of her, then the woman got up to feed the family's poultry, and it was almost time for lunch when she was done cooking again. .
After the gentle woman made the meal, she respectfully served the paralyzed mother-in-law to have dinner, and carefully turned the old man's body to avoid the old man's sound of bedsores.
The old man couldn't move, but she was very clear-headed. She looked at the woman and said, "Xiao Lian, how fortunate is my family's Zheng Lang to marry a wife like you! When he is in high school, you will be the official wife!"
The woman called Xiaolian smiled shyly: "It's my luck that officials can see me."
"You are such a good boy."
About two years later, the old man died of a disease.
…
Time passed, Gu Xizhou heard the sound of gongs and drums, Xiaolian stood in front of the door, looking forward to it.
"Zheng Xianggong has won!"
Hearing this sentence, Gu Xizhou felt the woman's heartfelt joy, and the woman who usually doesn't like to laugh was smiling like a flower at this time.
This woman treats her husband from beginning to end, respects and takes care of the elderly in her family, bears no grudges for housework, studies for her husband to support her, and she has never disliked the tiring work.
She has only heavy housework in her life, and besides that, she is her husband who reads books as heaven and earth.
…
However, at this moment, the woman is locked in such a cabinet, and it is the person she treats wholeheartedly who locks her in.
"Xiao Lian, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." The man knelt in front of her and wept bitterly, "I really need the help of Lord Fuya, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
"You forgive me, I beg you, I'm sorry, you promise, promise me to leave, as long as you pretend that you ran away with someone else, I'll let you go, you nod, okay." The man burst into tears. tears.
The woman looked at him feebly and shook her head resolutely: she didn't look for a wild man, she didn't leave... She could leave, but she didn't run!
The man cried, but he never untied the rope on the woman's body, and did not give the woman anything to eat, and the woman was unwilling to agree to the man's request. On the fourth day, Gu Xizhou felt hungry, and he knew that the woman was dying.
The woman huddled in the dark and cramped cabinet, choking her last breath.
Because he couldn't find a woman, Zheng Xianggong gave up. After drinking one day, he pretended to be drunk and spit out bitterness to his friends, saying that when Zheng Liushi disappeared, there was a lot of property missing at home, and the people around him looked different. The next day, just as Zheng Xianggong thought, rumors spread among the neighbors that Zheng Liu's family ran away with the wild man.
What he did fell into the eyes of other people, that is, a good man who loved his wife deeply and wanted to give his wife a chance to repent. Everyone around him sighed that after half a year of Zheng Liu's disappearance, Zheng Xianggong married the daughter of the government's government and backgammon as he wished. Promoted all the way to Kyoto.
Time seemed to be fast-forwarding again, and Gu Xizhou heard the quarrel.
Gu Xizhou suspects that he is still on the body of 'Xiao Lian'. Decades have passed, Xiao Lian's body has long since dried up, but because of the special environment where Zheng Xianggong dumped the body, Xiao Lian's body rotted and did not melt, just like Egypt. like a mummy.
There were two young people arguing outside. The two had an argument over Xiaolian's body. Because the body was not weathered, they mistakenly thought that Xiaolian was someone who had just died. During the quarrel, the two finally decided to report to the official!
The magistrate of the government was a 40-year-old man. He was startled when he saw Xiao Lian's body. After leaving the hall, he found Mr. Zheng, who had returned from his uncle's resignation, and told him about it.
"Uncle, I see that the woman has a bracelet on her hand, which seems to be left by grandma, exactly the same as my mother's."
When Zheng Daxianggong heard this, he was very frightened and did not want to go to see it, but his wife of the government office said, "Then go and see if it is her!"
Finally, based on the bracelet, it was determined that this was the 'Xiaolian' who ran away with the wild man, the husband's former wife.
The people around said that things would be business as usual. If Xiao Lian didn't run away, she would be an official wife now, rich and honored all her life. At this time, someone suggested—
"Zheng Xianggong generously donated money to repair the ancestral hall. Why don't we embed the face of this unclean woman on the ground, burn the body, smear her ashes on the wall, and let her watch herself being trampled by thousands of people?"
"Yes, yes, I also warn those women who marry into our Zhengjia Village to abide by women's ethics and three obedience and four virtues."
At this time, Zheng Xianggong opened his mouth, but the people around him were filled with righteous indignation at this time, and he could not say a word.
In this way, the woman's face was inlaid on the ground, and the ashes were burned and mixed in the mud and smeared on the wall. Before that, thousands of people stepped on it. As the years went by, there were more and more such women in the Zheng family ancestral hall.
There was only one woman crying in the ancestral hall at first, then two...
"Why are you wronging me?"
"I just choose the person I like, what my parents say, what the matchmaker says, I don't stop, I don't believe it!"
…
Gu Xizhou heard whispers one after another, and they gradually became more and more people.
"Why do women depend on men?"
"I'm human too, why do you have to be divided into three, six, nine, etc. You can have three wives and four concubines, and I want to end with one."
"Why!"
When Gu Xizhou heard this sentence, a familiar voice sounded in the air, and countless chains slid at the same time, as if falling from the sky, hitting the ground heavily.
Gu Xizhou was shocked and wanted to take another look at the woman behind him. He had returned to reality.
those women...
Gu Xizhou sat blankly on Si Yu's sofa, unable to let go.
A little while after he opened the door, he seemed to be on the wall all the time. He watched women being escorted into the ancestral hall, and saw those people pierced their faces with needles, peeled off their skins and put them on the ground. It was dirt and later marble...
those women.
He watched helplessly as his face was trampled on.
They could only cry, and cry all the time.
Gu Xizhou thought of the cries in the ancestral hall, the cries of the women, as if they were still in his ears.
"Want something to drink?" Si Yu patted Gu Xi on the shoulder and smiled at him.
Gu Xizhou nodded, took two sips of hot coffee and felt better, "Thank you."
"You are welcome."
After drinking two coffees, Gu Xizhou felt a little urge to urinate. He walked to the toilet and felt that there seemed to be something in his trousers bag. Gu Xizhou touched the trousers bag.
note
He was sure and sure it wasn't his! When he entered the world, there was no note on his body, but a pair of handcuffs.
Gu Xizhou took out a note about the width of his index finger from his bag. He unfolded the note with a line of words written on it—
'6' for life, '1' for death, good luck.