An Xingyu was having a party with a group of people.
The pressure of studying, the expectations of his parents, the fear of constantly hovering on the brink of life and death... all of these made him tense. Only by praying to God and listening to God's gospel could he find some peace.
Just like now, he changed into a white robe, stood among the crowd, and watched the sacrificial activities in the venue with joy.
Blood splattered, dyeing the white clothes into red robes.
At this time, everyone in the venue wore red clothes, cheered in unison, and felt honored for God's gift.
An Xingyu smiled happily for the first time. His cell phone vibrated again. He took it out and looked at the caller ID, but did not answer the call. Instead, he let the other party continue dialing.
After An's mother came back, she learned that her son had run away from home and had a big fight with her husband. She also went out to look for him every day and checked the surveillance videos and notices, but her son seemed determined to hide and not see them. No matter how hard she looked for him, An Xingyu was unwilling to come out.
"It's all your fault. Why did you argue with him? He can believe whatever he wants to believe. Can your theory save him? Can it bring him back?" After another day of fruitless efforts, Mother An went home and sat on the sofa, crying loudly.
"He has already encountered such a thing, and he is already very strong... Can you ask him to give up his only hobby?"
An Ru also felt better: "But, was it the evil cult he believed in that caused him to encounter such a thing? I am doing this for his own good."
"For his own good? What about now? Where is my son?" Mother An felt miserable and cried silently with her face up.
An Ru stood still and let her blame him.
"Do you think I don't know what he's doing? As long as he's safe, I don't care what he believes in. What's wrong with him believing in religion? Did he kill anyone or set anything else on fire?" Mother An muttered to herself. Suddenly she thought of something and her eyes became sharp. "How did you know that?"
Anru seldom goes home, where did he get the news
"Did you install a camera in Xiao An's room? I checked it too." An Ru said, "Also, you have Xiao An's notebook, right? This kid is very smart. He knows how to record things with special symbols. If I knew him well, I really wouldn't have noticed it."
Hearing this, Mother An smiled with pride and sadness: "Yes, he is so smart." Then she changed the subject and continued to complain, "It's all your fault! It's so chaotic out there now. If anything happens to him, I will never forgive you!..."
An Ru let her blame him. After a long time, he seemed to have made up his mind and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely find him back."
A young girl was sitting in a dim room, a smile that suited her personality appeared on her baby face, and her fingers were flying.
"Hahaha, as expected, nothing can stump me, Chuchu! I finally figured it out." Suddenly, the girl jumped up excitedly, and at the same time, her cell phone rang.
"Hey? Xiaoyu, did you see the post I posted?" The girl ruffled her short hair and continued to laugh. "Tell me, where did you get the website from? These games are quite interesting and challenging."
The voice on the other end of the phone sounded like she was about to cry: "Chu Chu, are you home? Can I come to see you?"
The girl named Lin Chu was dumbfounded: "What's wrong with you?"
The young man she called Xiaoyu cried out, "I'm going to die, I... I'm in your building right now, can you help me?"
"Okay, uh..." Lin Chu just agreed to come, she suddenly received some kind of consciousness, a voice in her mind was talking to her, which delayed her answer by a second.
What? Mission? Shangxian Village? What the hell
She forced herself to let Xiaoyu come up, and when she opened the door, her face still looked a little bad. Xiaoyu's eyes were originally full of tears, but when she saw her like this, she forgot what she was going to say, and panicked: "What's wrong with you, Chuchu? Are you feeling well?"
Lin Chu shook his head: "Um... I'm fine. By the way, what's wrong with you?"
"I..." Xiao Yu burst into tears again, "I'm going to die."
"Come in and talk slowly." Lin Chu pulled him in.
Xiao Yu's real name is Yu Xianguang, nicknamed Xiaoyu, and he is her best friend. If the two of them really didn't have feelings for each other, they would have gotten together long ago.
Then, she heard something that she could hardly believe.
"Anyway, that's it. The website I asked you to log in to, where you posted the task that passed the review, was actually my personal experience. The posts you saw were also their personal experiences." Xiao Yu's face was filled with despair. "Next, I will participate in the second task. What should I do? I'm sure I won't survive."
Lin Chu's heart was filled with turmoil.
This matter... This matter...
Why was it so similar to the voice in her mind just now
So, the voice she just heard was real
"Chu Chu, can you help me? Help me analyze it. I know you are very good. All the life paths you analyzed on the website are correct." Xiao Yu begged her again.
"Is what you said... true?" Lin Chu's face turned pale. "I just heard a voice too. It asked me to do a mission. I heard it when you called me."
"What, what?" Yu Xianguang stood there in a daze.
He never expected that even Lin Chu would be involved.
Lin Chu looked as if she had seen a ghost: "If I had just experienced this, I would really think you were kidding me. Who could have thought of this?"
This time, Yu Xianguang comforted her: "Actually, there's no need to be sad. You can go to the website and ask. Everyone has a mission to complete. Besides, you're so smart, you'll definitely make it alive."
Before he finished speaking, he was stunned by the expression on Lin Chu's face. How could Lin Chu be as panicked as he imagined? She was clearly excited!
"What are you doing?"
Lin Chu tried to hold back her laughter but still couldn't help laughing out loud. She stood up suddenly, put her five fingers on the laptop and closed it, her eyes full of excitement: "I didn't expect that there would be such a thing. As expected, after living a boring life for too long, I always want to find some excitement. Tsk... Isn't it just a mission? Here I come~"
The rising ending tone at the end left Yu Xianguang stunned.
"Now, let's discuss a mission. By the way, my mission is to go to Shangxian Village. It told me that I am the daughter of a family in Shangxian Village who has been studying abroad for many years. My name has changed. It is almost the New Year, so I need to go back to my hometown to worship my ancestors. When the worship is completed, the mission will be over. What about you?"
Yu Xianguang took a long time to come back to his senses: "Ah, that, me too. By the way, did you just receive it?" He lowered his head and muttered to himself, "That should be it. Every task is issued at the same time. Why would they add another person temporarily?"
"Maybe I have some kind of bug. By the way, could it be because you revealed the mission to me?"
This sentence made Yu Xianguang pale: "I'm right, I didn't mean to hurt you."
"It's okay. I'm just worried about not being able to find the true meaning of life." Lin Chu licked his lips excitedly. "It's so cool to experience the feeling of walking on the edge of death."
Yu Xianguang trembled, and after a while he recovered. "I attended a party two days ago. After posting the task details on the website, participants in the same task will meet each other. There are five people in this group, six if you include you. One of them is a high school student. He is very good and has completed many tasks."
He looked at Lin Chu expectantly: "Boss, I'm counting on you."
Lin Chu became interested in the man: "Man? What's his name? How many times has he done it?" His round eyes narrowed slightly, "I always feel that he is a little suspicious..."
"What's suspicious?"
“Yeah, nothing.” Lin Chu did not say what he was thinking.
She thought this was a game, but it turned out to be reality, just like an infinite novel. So, anyone who didn't participate in the mission or failed in the mission would die? No wonder, there have been more and more strange cases in recent years, how many of them are related to the mission
Also, did people who were doing the task get together to set up a website? Was this website really not discovered by the relevant departments? Did the task screen the taskers? With so many people doing the task, someone must have thought of spreading the news, but no one has heard of it until now, which means that something must have suppressed the news behind the scenes.
Then why could Yu Xianguang tell me
What is the survival rate of small-scale transmission? Or is there something special about yourself
With too many questions piling up in his mind, Lin Chu decided to make a field trip before reaching a conclusion.
She was very interested in the high school student. Perhaps she could get more information from the higher-level tasker. She was also quite interested in the so-called other world.
"Next is Shangxian Village. This village has always been quite xenophobic, and it was very difficult for our people to find out the news."
A car was driving on the winding road. Although it was deep winter, the trees around were still thick and heavy. Just one look at them made people feel chilly.
There were a man and a woman sitting in the car. The man in the driving seat was concentrating on driving, while the woman in the back seat was wearing a red robe and had a dignified and holy expression. She was introducing the situation of the village to the people behind.
"It is said that Shangxian Village was originally very prosperous and covered a large area. However, after a period of prosperity, the entire Shangxian Village was immediately cursed. It is still unclear how the curse came about, and the specific manifestations are also clear. In short, the entire village was almost wiped out. But later, they invited the Five Great Immortals to the village, and the villagers began to live smoothly."
Lu Yanli repeated: "Five Great Immortals?"
He had heard and seen many strange things, and naturally he had heard of the legend of the Five Great Immortals. In some areas of the north, people believe in the five "great immortals" Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui. Hu is the fox, Huang is the weasel, Bai is the hedgehog, Liu is the snake, and Hui is the mouse. This belief culture is not only the folk legend passed down orally, but also influenced by shamanism and religion.
Of course, he needed to show himself in front of the priests who had come along specially for this operation.
"It's just a folk legend. A bunch of low-level animals. They don't know what a real god is." The woman's expression was still holy and gentle, and her words clearly showed her disdain for it. "Remember, don't forget your identity."
This was actually meant to warn him. In order to enter the village, they found villagers from Shangxian Village who lived outside to provide false testimony. Then, they could just say that they were Shangxian villagers who had lived outside for many years and came back to worship their ancestors.
"I understand. I will forget it."
As he was speaking, Lu Yanli suddenly noticed that the vehicle had brushed past something on the side of the road.
He looked in the rearview mirror and saw a weasel with shiny brown fur standing on a bare, raised rock. Its round black eyes were looking towards them, meeting his gaze in the rearview mirror.
Then, the weasel quickly jumped onto the rock and disappeared.
Lu Yanli clearly saw that before it disappeared, its two front paws were folded across its chest like a human, and a human-like smile appeared at the corner of its mouth.
The woman in the back seat continued, "Let's check again. Your name is Lu Yanli. My name is Luo Ying. We both live with our parents in other places and have never returned to the village. This year we are returning to worship our ancestors. Do you remember?"
Lu Yanli said: "Don't worry, I won't make mistakes."
Luo Ying continued, "Don't forget, our mission is to make as many villagers in this village believe in our Lord as possible. And the best way to make them change their beliefs is to destroy the things they believe in."
The last sentence was spoken softly but murderous.
The vehicle continued to move forward and finally arrived at the entrance of the village after going down the mountain.
There was a middle-aged man waiting at the entrance of the road. When he saw the car coming, he immediately went to greet it. As soon as Lu Yanli lowered the window, he greeted him warmly.
"You are the boy from the Lu family, right?" The middle-aged man had dark skin, a weathered look, and chapped lips, but he smiled honestly. "I've been waiting for you for a long time. This is your first time back, right? Don't be shy. Go back to the ancestral hall after entering the village these few days and take a look around. You young men will have to help with the ancestral worship in the near future."
Lu Yanli gave a somewhat shy smile, nodded and agreed to come.
At this moment, the window of the back seat was also lowered. Luo Ying, who had taken off her red robe and was only wearing an ordinary sportswear, smiled and greeted the middle-aged man: "Uncle Zhang, I am also back to worship my ancestors. I am from the Luo family, and my name is Luo Ying."
"Luo's... Oh, your father is Luo Rongshan, right? I remember now." Uncle Zhang slapped his thigh, "I didn't expect that Luo Rongshan has such a big and beautiful daughter. Come on, come on, go in."
The enthusiastic Zhang Bo refused to take the car and led the way in the car. The car followed slowly along the way. They met many villagers along the way. After learning that they were villagers returning to their hometown to worship their ancestors, they all greeted them very warmly. This caused them to enter the village at a slower speed where they could park.
The village is large, but perhaps because of its remote location, it can be seen that the economy is not very developed. Many villagers still live in adobe houses, and there are not many better tiled houses. However, along the way, you can see some exquisite wooden buildings from time to time. The houses are low and clearly built for people to live in. According to Zhang Bo, these are places for the five immortals to rest.
Uncle Zhang showed them where to park the car, which was far from his home. After they got out of the car and followed him, Uncle Zhang rubbed his hands and said, "You see, it's your first day back, so there must be nothing in this old house. So, stay at my house tonight, and tomorrow we will fix up the old house for you and make it tidy. Then you can move in, how about that?"
The two agreed to come and followed Uncle Zhang to his home.
There is a big pine tree near Uncle Zhang's home. It is even greener at this time of year. Walking along the path under the tree, a brand new tiled house appears in front of us.
What was strange was that the threshold of his house was very high, almost reaching Luo Ying's calves. The two of them stepped over it habitually, and as soon as they stepped into the door, they saw the shrine in the middle of the main room.