Chapter 100 Shuangxi Town (1) Taking the Yin Road
"Let me tell you, our Shuangxi Town is a first-class big town far and near. If you look anywhere else, you will see all the corners of the poor countryside. You can’t find a town as big as ours!”
The hoarse sound was like a brush rubbing against the bark of a tree, ringing happily around me, accompanied by the sound of a wooden paddle slapping the water.
Qisi opened his eyes and found himself sitting on a raft. Standing in front of him was a skinny little old man wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, holding a wooden oar and paddling.
The raft floats on the black-green river water, moving forward slowly and steadily.
The old man punting the boat was quite talkative and kept talking: "I'll tell you again, our Feng Shui is good every drop of it. We rely on water to gather wealth and the wealth will not be revealed. This river is full of energy. You are allowed in but not allowed out. The wealth comes in, but nothing can escape. This river is such that ordinary people can’t come, and they don’t dare to come!”
Is the Chinese style scary?
Qisi looked at the noisy old man who was so thin that he had only a handful of bones left, and suddenly wanted to push him to see if he could swim.
Of course, just thinking about it.
The black-haired young man put his hands into his trouser pockets and gave a gentle and harmless smile on his lips: "Old man, is the river too narrow? If two boats come in and out, they will collide. Isn’t it stuck? ”
As he spoke, he lowered his gaze and saw a name tag hanging around his neck with the words "Folklore Investigator" written on it, which should be his identity in this copy.
The plastic card sleeve containing the famous brand is thick and bulging, and it seems that something is stuck in it.
The old man said: "Didn't I tell you that in our river, living people are not allowed to enter but not to leave. If you want to go out, take the dry road."
"Is there anything special about it?" Qisi casually lifted up the name tag hanging on his chest and glanced down.
There is a stack of photos on the back of the name tag. The top is a group photo of a girl in her early twenties holding the hand of a young man in a white shirt and smiling sweetly.
The girl on the left has long hair, a baby face that is as white as plaster on the wall, her lips are also white, her eyebrows are so light that they are almost invisible, and only her eyes are a thick black circle that cannot see the light.
The young man on the right is Qiss himself. To be precise, he is someone who is standing in front of Qiss’s face. He is making an expression that Qiss is not familiar with, with a face that is dazzled by love. His happy appearance aroused the owner's spiritual obsessiveness at a glance.
Qisi lowered his eyes and kept talking: "We specialize in folk culture. Old man, tell us anything you know. When the time comes to launch tourism, these will be good. Consider it."
The old man snorted: "What's so important about it? We all have to go the same way and don't run into each other?"
What a simple and unpretentious answer... …
Qisi was a little disappointed, and then he heard the old man lower his voice and say mysteriously: "If I really want to ask for an explanation, I can tell you one, two, three, four..."
His voice was gloomy. , as vague as if he had phlegm in his mouth: "Water belongs to Yin, the waterway is the Yin way, the Yin way enters, the Yang way comes out, humans and ghosts have different paths, life and death are different paths..."
There is white mist ahead. Curls rose up, and the wet water vapor rushed to the face and rushed into the nasal cavity, bringing a sticky suffocating feeling.
Silver-white text appeared before my eyes, accompanied by an emotionless electronic sound.
[Copy Name: "Double Happiness Town"]
[Copy Type: Team Survival]
[Main Mission: Find Xu Wen and take her away]
[Pre-tip: The living are not necessarily alive, and the dead are not necessarily dead]
Qisi now knows the name of the girl in the photo, her name is Xu Wen.
"This is a team survival dungeon. It's a good thing. Finally, there is no need for intrigues!" A thick voice sounded from behind, with overflowing joy. "The confrontation dungeon seven days ago was too bad. Fortunately, I’m good at pretending to be dead.”
This person sounded like he was not very smart: "My name is Liu Bingding, and this, plus the novice pool, is my sixth dungeon. I am an actor, and I am ashamed to say that I play the role of a corpse as a backdrop."
Someone started and introduced themselves one after another:
"My name is Du Xiaoyu, this is my fourth dungeon. Hey, I just became an official player, in reality I am a freelancer "
"Li Yao, the fifth time. I mainly write supernatural novels and know more about folklore."
"Shang Qingbei, the fourth copy...well, I am. I am in my third year of high school and will take the college entrance examination this year.”
If what they say is true, the players in this dungeon are about the same level. They are all rookies who have just become official players.
This is a normal configuration. Newcomers and rookies of equal strength are pecking each other, and the fight is full of back and forth. Like the last dungeon, it was a rare and extreme situation to face a player of Lu Li's level right from the start.
Qisi was in a good mood, and his tone became much more relaxed for a while: "Old man, to be honest, I have a girlfriend who also works in this industry, but she disappeared after coming to your town. I don't know... "
"I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it!" The old man waved his hand impatiently, "We only allow outsiders to stay in this town for seven days, and this month's nest can only support you."< br>
"Looking for someone, looking for someone. If you lose someone, come to the nest to look for it. If your own people don't like it, you can't make sense of it..."
Qisi raised his eyebrows: "Besides us, is there anyone else looking for someone?"
The old man didn't say a word, but a dark hand put his hand on Qisi's shoulder: "Brother, come here Let’s get to know each other. What’s your name? What do you do?”
This voice comes from Du Xiaoyu.
Chis turned around expressionlessly, and just as he was about to speak, he saw the lean and dark little man behind him pointing at him in surprise: "I've seen you in the newspaper, you are the one Qi...Qi..."
"Qi Wen." Qi Si smiled awkwardly and gave his pseudonym.
He made the most natural reaction for ordinary people after being recognized. At the same time, he shook his shoulders and brushed off Du Xiaoyu's dirty hands.
“Yes! You are that Qi Wen!”
The little black monkey-like man is only about eighteen or nineteen years old. He is wearing a black T-shirt with a skull printed on it, and he looks carefree. .
After answering Qisi’s words, he winked and said, “I understand you”, and then said with a smile: “I’ll call you Brother Qi! I cut out the report and posted it at home, and read it back and forth. Dozens of times, you are my idol!”
Qisi’s eyes twitched slightly as he thought of the report titled “A 22-year-old boy from our city held a county-level exhibition to win honor for his hometown.”
He didn’t believe a word Du Xiaoyu’s fans said, but in front of everyone, he still smiled and nodded: “Haha, I didn’t expect that I am so famous and can be recognized everywhere.”
“But no matter the reality It’s the same starting point for entering the weird game, so there’s no need to say any more nonsense. This is my nineteenth dungeon, and I happen to have some guesses about the background of this dungeon.”
He thought. I came up with an interesting gameplay, so I directly copied Lu Li’s lines.
As soon as the words "Nineteenth" came out, the players' eyes changed. Four eyes were directed at them. Some were suspicious, while others were surprised.
He seems to be a tolerant and friendly senior player, and he is quite willing to cooperate and share his discoveries...
Qisi deliberately conveyed the wrong understanding and spoke calmly: "The main plot of this dungeon is to find people. A girl named Xu Wen disappeared in Shuangxi Town. We are all her relatives or friends, and we have made an appointment. Let’s find her together and take her home.”
“Since this is a team copy, I hope everyone can share clues and don’t hide any ideas you have. Maybe it’s not just you. Everyone is important, and I don’t want the five of us to be reduced because of stupidity.”
While speaking, Qisi checked the names and faces of several players.
The strong and angular man is Liu Bingding, who claims to be an actor. He is about thirty years old. He wears blue long-sleeved trousers. His hair is parted in the middle. His face is neatly groomed. But his appearance is unattractive. No wonder he can only Acting as a corpse. The slender boy wearing a blue and white school uniform and black-rimmed glasses is naturally Shang Qingbei. He has an ordinary appearance and a pimple on his forehead can be faintly seen under his bangs. He is holding a thick English dictionary. It can be seen that he really wants to go to Qingbei.
Li Yao is the only woman among the five and is very easy to recognize. Wearing black tights, he looks to be in his mid-twenties, with short and neat hair. Because she was sitting down, she couldn't tell her exact height, but looking at her upper body, she should be quite tall.
None of them look like massacre players, but the possibility of excellent acting skills cannot be ruled out. It is doubtful whether there are members of the Silas mixed in among them.
The name tags of "Folklore Investigator" were all hung around their necks. Judging from the thickness of the plastic shell, there must be something clamped on the back.
I just don’t know if it’s a similar photo or some other clue.
Qisi raised the corners of his lips and said warmly: "I can tell you that I am Xu Wen's boyfriend. What about you?"
Du Xiaoyu glanced around, obviously looking at the system interface: "I didn't say my identity here, not even a narration."
Li Yao glanced at the back of the nameplate and shook her head: "Me too In this way, the game didn't tell me anything."
The other two nodded, indicating that Li Yao was right.
Shang Qingbei looked back and felt a little angry: "Why did you become our leader so naturally? Just because you are a so-called 'senior player'? What evidence do you have to prove what you said? Are all true?”
The smile on Qisi’s face continued: “There is no way to prove it, but this is a team copy. What good does it do me to lie to you? You are not stupid,” seize the leadership position. , this reason cannot be established among official players. ”
"Okay, logically there is no problem." Shang Qingbei didn't intend to believe Qisi's lies. In his opinion, every one of these old players was an old bastard.
He shrugged: "The ugly words are ahead. I don't believe there will be any help in the weird game. Animals like humans have always been self-interested."
"You have such a The idea is not strange." Qisi sighed quietly, "After all, what happened to us in Kyushu..."
He did not continue. The other players had heard about Lu Li's incident and automatically made up their minds. Know the cause and effect.
There were not many players watching the live broadcast of "Hopeless Sea", but not too many. At least few people present knew that Qisi was "Si Qi".
Shang Qingbei asked: "Are you from Kyushu?"
Qisi sighed again, focusing on not admitting or denying.
Silence spread among the players. In the silence, only the sound of wooden paddles scratching the water could be heard.
Qisi turned around and faced the bow of the ship, with his back to the four people behind him, and looked at the vast white mist ahead.
The dew is cold and the fog is heavy, and the distant scenery is blurred in the tiny gauze-like water drops. Only high and low gray shadows can be seen, and the vague outline outlines the appearance of the water town.
The old man standing at the bow of the boat had a stooped figure, but his thin arms exposed from under his raincoat were extremely powerful, and he slapped the wooden pole on the water again and again.
Crash...crash...
With a uniform sound, the stretching stone walls on both sides stopped suddenly, and the eyes became vast, spreading out to a lake with no left and right edges visible.
The fog dissipated at some point, and a quaint southern town appeared on the other side of the lake. The color scheme of white walls and black tiles looked like a picture made with ink on rice paper.
The shore is paved with blue stone slabs, and several women in floral clothes sit in a row on their knees, rolling their clothes with wooden sticks, and the white soap foam they break out floats along the current.
The raft approached a stone step, hit it with a "click", and was pushed away by the reaction force. The old man remained motionless on the bow of the boat. He skillfully used a pole to stabilize the raft and docked it firmly at the edge of the stone steps.
"We're here, get off!" The old man exhaled a puff of white smoke and warned, "Remember, outsiders can only stay for seven days."
Seven days? It should be the time limit for this copy.
I don’t know if “Xu Wen” in the mission, as the dungeon NPC, is within this time limit.
Zis asked: "What will happen if it exceeds seven days?"
"I don't know! No outsider has ever stayed in our town for seven days and still hasn't left." The old man muttered, "Over seven days, seven days is enough!"
How weird this sounds, Li Yao murmured : "Seven in Taoism is the child of the yang number, the intersection of yin and yang. The first seven souls return to pay off debts and end the fate of the world."
When encountering an NPC who obviously knows a lot of information, it is naturally impossible for players to Let it go.
Du Xiaoyu asked: "Old man, why can outsiders only stay for seven days? Also, what do you mean by the first seven days?"
The old man squinted his eyes and waved as if he was impatient. He raised his hand twice and said: "Why are you young people so embarrassed? Go, go, go, when you get to town, you will know everything you need to know."
The NPCs began to drive people away, and the players did not dare to neglect and stepped ashore one after another.
Qisi stood on the bluestone floor, looked sideways at the old man and smiled: "Old man, have we paid the boat fee? My memory is not good, I kind of forgot."
"No payment. "The old man opened his toothless mouth and made a "ho ho" sound from the black hole, "You don't have any money that can be used here..."
A large amount of white smoke came from his mouth. It surged out and enveloped the five people on the shore. His figure suddenly became transparent, and even the raft under his feet became as light as clouds, and disappeared in a few breaths.
Where are the lakes and cliffs in the direction you just came from? There is clearly only a narrow inland river, with white walls and black tiles on one side of the river, and white walls and black tiles on the other side of the river.
Houses of different heights take the inland river as the central axis, with terraces extending to both sides. Players are already in the center of Shuangxi Town.
Behind the back is a funeral shop wrapped in black cloth, with a dozen paper figures about the same height as the players displayed vertically.
In front of me, bright red silk with flowers hanging down from the dark eaves, connecting the houses to the endless distance.
The huge bright red character "囍" is pasted on every wall, reflecting the white wall with a thin red color.
The women washing clothes that I saw earlier were still kneeling on the same spot, without raising their heads, focusing on washing clothes in silence. It's just that the clothes in their hands have turned into a dazzling red, which is clearly the wedding dress of the bride in a traditional Chinese wedding.
Something fell from the sky, white, like snow.
Qisi raised his hand to catch a few pieces. There was a hole in the paper ring. They were paper coins used in funeral ceremonies to send away impediments.
[Double happiness in life, one is wedding and the other is funeral]
On the system interface, white words refreshed.
The voices of men and women who could not distinguish between men and women stretched out their pitch, chanting like a blessing:
[During a wedding, one wears new clothes, welcomes the new person, enters the new house, and is dressed in red makeup]
[During a funeral, one wears clean clothes, sends the old person off, enters the graveyard, and is dressed in white gauze]
[Naked Come, marry in glory, go naked——]
The voice suddenly rose in pitch, mixed with sharp and terrifying laughter, and shouted:
[Happy, happy! 】
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