Chapter 121 Shuangxi Town (Twenty-two) Entering the Urn
When Du Xiaoyu and Shang Qingbei returned to Xi'er's house, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.
Du Xiaoyu opened the door and saw a woman in a red wedding dress sitting on Li Yao's bed in the room, sobbing softly.
Seeing someone coming back, the woman cried and said: "Liu Bingding is dead... It's my fault. He was caught by those paper figures to save me..."
Shang Qingbei always felt that something was not right.
In my memory, Li Yao was calm most of the time, so how could she cry?
He maintained a calm attitude and said: "Xu Yao, calm down first and tell us what happened."
Shang Qingbei himself didn't know how to address him so well. Became "Xu Yao".
However, recalling it carefully, it seems that this teammate is indeed called "Xu Yao". He must have been confused just now and remembered it wrongly.
"Yes, Xu Yao, we have been looking for you for a long time, but we can't find you anywhere." Du Xiaoyu helped, "In order to find trouble, Brother Qi even went down the well."
Xu Yao lowered her head and said: "Liu Bingding and I were sent to Shuangxi Town a hundred years ago. We met many paper figures... They said that I was 'Miss Xu' and Liu Bingding was the county magistrate, and they wanted to catch us... We We ran to the mourning hall together, Liu Bingding stuffed me into the coffin at the last moment, but he..."
She did not continue, the ending was self-evident. Liu Bingding did not come back, only she sat here and survived.
"My condolences." Shang Qingbei comforted him without feeling too much sadness.
It was just a chance encounter, and he didn't have much fondness for that man who was quite humane and sophisticated. Under the "guaranteed death toll" mechanism, there can be no true unity and friendship.
Du Xiaoyu asked: "You entered the coffin, what happened next? How did you come back?"
Xu Yao said hesitantly: "The coffin may be a passage. I fell asleep, and when I opened my eyes again, I was sitting here..."
She started crying again, and Du Xiaoyu scratched her ears and cheeks beside her, not knowing what to do. How to comfort.
Shang Qingbei waited impatiently for a while and interrupted: "You triggered the side mission, so you should have obtained clues."
"Yes." Xu Yao wiped it With tears, he said in a slightly accusatory tone, "We saw what happened to the Goddess of Joy. She was forced to death by the people in Shuangxi Town... After her death, Shuangxi Town also killed a girl every forty-nine years. Use resentment to suppress her soul."
"Not only that, anyone who comes to Shuangxi Town to find someone and knows the secrets of Shuangxi Town will be thrown into the well... The Goddess of Joy said that there is a person named Xu Wen. The girl’s body is at the bottom of the well.”
At this point, all the clues are connected.
Xu Wen is dead, at the bottom of the well.
Shang Qingbei looked back at the young man in a white shirt leaning against the door and questioned: "Qi Wen, didn't you say you didn't see Xu Wen at the bottom of the well?"
" I really didn't see it." There was no change in the young man's pale face. "There are bones at the bottom of the well. I don't know which one is Xu Wen."
Shang Qingbei frowned and said something sarcastic. .
The young man walked straight to the bed in the middle, took out a set of white shirts from his backpack, lifted the quilt to cover his whole body, and changed under the quilt.
After changing, he rubbed the wet shirt and threw it under the bed, wrapped himself in a quilt and lay down on the bed, then closed his eyes.
As soon as Du Xiaoyu turned around, he saw that the young man was about to fall asleep, and he couldn't help but said: "What's wrong with you? It's only the afternoon..."
The young man turned over, looking like he was sleeping peacefully and didn't want to The way you treat people.
Shang Qingbei twitched the corners of his mouth, feeling that "Qisi" acted strangely and was very weak after he came up from the well. He most likely encountered something underground and was injured.
But, why not tell the truth? Is it to hide clues, or to "save face and suffer the consequences"?
Shang Qingbei shook his head, took out the yellow scripture paper with the rules written on it from his arms and handed it to Xu Yao: "We found the rules of this copy."
Xu Yao took it. I read the sutra paper with some doubts. She seemed to have some difficulty reading it, and she read it very slowly. She didn't finish it in half a day.
Shang Qingbei was unaware and continued: "Tonight we will go out to explore and find a way out of Shuangxi Town; tomorrow morning we will go down the well again and find Xu Wen's body. I don't know which one is her, so I Bring it up..."
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"I came to Shuangxi Town to find someone. Unexpectedly, not only was I unable to take her away, but I was also trapped here..."
In the underground world, the sound of wind outside the door gradually became smaller. After falling down, the mournful sound of the suona sounded again. Xu Wen breathed a sigh of relief obviously: "They are gone, let's go to the Temple of Mourning quickly."
As if she was afraid of Qisi's questioning, she He added: "There is no coffin coming today, so we can't leave. We have to go to the temple to take shelter first."
Chisi was a little cold from the wind earlier, so he huddled in the corner and waited. Now he stood Standing up, Xu Wen followed Xu Wen's first sentence and asked: "Who are you here for?"
Xu Wen opened the door and looked back at Qisi with a somewhat complicated look: "I came to see me. Sister, she was missing. They searched for a long time but couldn’t find her, so I looked for her myself.”
Qisi thought of the newspaper clipping he saw in Xi'er's room and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Have you found it now?"
"Maybe I have found it. Maybe I argued with them because I found it." She...but I can't take her away...I won't remember any more." Xu Wen's voice dropped.
She no longer looked back and walked ahead to lead the way. Qisi followed silently. Suddenly, she felt that the development of the plot was somewhat in line with the routine of a bloody horror movie.
Xu Wen found someone to hook her up, so she asked for help from the characters played by four players. The four folklore investigators were really on call and boarded the pirate ship together.
Qisi raised his eyes and looked at the gray sky, his sense of humor reviving at an inappropriate time: "Well, now we are all trapped here, I don't know if we can still shake people."
Xu Wen did not respond.
She was silent for a long time and asked quietly: "Do you want to know the secret about Double Happiness Town?"
The two stood on the street one after another, with both sides covered by fog. It has white walls and black tiles, and is crowded with dusty ghost figures walking on the ground.
Qisi lowered his eyes and said lukewarmly: "You can just say what you want to say."
Xu Wen turned her back to him and spoke softly: "As early as twenty years ago Before, there was no Shuangxi Town. The whole town disappeared overnight, as if it had never existed, leaving only a dry well in the middle of the plains."
"Walking on the ruins of the town, you can often see the shadows of houses and people, and hear people's voices. Therefore, some people say that Shuangxi Town has become a 'hidden ghost' and has become a ghost beating the wall."
The two of them walked a long way without knowing it. The fog became thicker and thicker, and they could not see the houses on both sides clearly.
A large temple suddenly appeared in front of it. It was similar to the Temple of Joy on the ground, with two entrances.
The temple has the same color scheme as an ordinary house, with white walls and black tiles. Two white paper lanterns hang under the eaves, with the word "mourning" written on them in black writing.
That is probably the temple of mourning.
Qisi stopped far away and asked: "In other words, Shuangxi Town is a ghost town?"
"It's hard to say." Xu Wen grabbed Qisi's wrist and led him forward. "Most of the people in the town are no different from living people. They have body temperature, are afraid of ghosts, and want to eat, drink, and defecate. They should not be ghosts. They are like being trapped at a certain point in time, with their physiological state fixed and immortal. "
Xu Wen's hand was so strong that it hurt Qi Si's wrist and he couldn't shake it off. It was like a wooden shackle used to escort prisoners to their destination.
Qisi expected that his wrist must have been bruised and bruised, and it was still ugly, like a corpse stain.
He stared at the back of Xu Wen's slender and fair neck, and let the latter pull him forward calmly: "It sounds like they have achieved the immortality that many people expected. But I have been in contact with them. "It doesn't look like they have lived for so many years," Xu Wen said, "because they have no memory of eternal life. They are forever trapped in a seven-day cycle, repeating their crimes over and over again, just like a game." ”
"NPC?" Qisi narrowed his eyes at her, "It seems you know a lot."
Xu Wen chuckled lightly and shook out a piece of debris from her sleeve without warning. The lens was placed on the side of Qisi's neck: "Yes, I know a lot of things, player."
The last word was like a boulder falling into a pool, making a loud sound.
As an NPC, Xu Wen is aware of the existence of the player; her behavior is obviously interfered with by some force, so that it breaks away from the design of this copy itself...
"Have you prayed to Him? Or are you not Xu Wen?" Qisi blinked in pretense of surprise.
Xu Wen continued talking by herself: "They involved the pedestrians passing by into the town, and then trapped them inside, and even their souls could not be freed."
"Obviously it has already happened. It does not belong to the world, but it still continues the customs of weddings and funerals, taking innocent girls, and then killing them cruelly..."
"The corpse of the deceased sank at the bottom of the well and turned into a ghost. A member of the group, going over and over again, with no relief."
The ghost's cries gradually began, mixed with desperate and unwilling cries.
There are ghost figures steaming up in the mist, men, women, old and young, wearing clothes belonging to various eras. They are obviously people who have been photographed in Shuangxi Town.
"I want to end this." Xu Wen suddenly became serious and said every word.
She held Qisi and stood in front of the temple of mourning. She didn’t know whether it was because of excitement or some other reason, but her hands were shaking a little.
The broken glass scratched Qisi's neck, leaving a trail of blood and dripping blood.
The wide open temple door was filled with a strong chill. Qisi's skin and flesh were stiff from the cold, and he couldn't feel much pain for a while.
He glanced into the temple and saw the white candles evenly distributed on both sides of the aisle and the statue of the god in black clothes and golden eyes in the shrine.
The statue has an unfamiliar face, with an indifferent expression, neither joy nor sorrow. But for a moment, Qiss felt that he had seen Him somewhere before.
Thousands of people with thousands of faces, no self, and all living beings. He couldn't tell clearly for a moment whether it was really aroused to bury it in the depths of his memory, or whether his brain was induced to use countless fragments to splice a Illusion.
The blood drops on his neck seeped into the collar and wetted a small piece of clothing. Qisi's eyes fell on the incense in front of the statue.
Three gods and four ghosts, a total of three sticks of incense were placed on the incense burner. It looked like they had just been lit, but only one of them was burned.
Xu Wen put on a pious and solemn look, put broken glass against Qisi's neck with one hand, and pushed him into the temple with the other.
"How do you want to end this?" Zeiss asked.
He moved his eyes and saw that there were also coffins placed in the ear room on the left side of the Temple of Funeral, but there was only one pair.
The style of the coffin is very different from that in the Temple of Joy. The dark surface is carved with golden vine patterns, which are similar to the narrative murals in the temple, but the specific meaning cannot be read.
That is more like a curse, a curse that can be passed between higher-level beings.
After keeping his gaze for two seconds, the patterns on the coffin began to swim, emerging from the surface of the coffin and turning into golden shadows that stretched freely in the air.
Qis suddenly felt a strong sense of suffocation, as if those vines were cutting into his soul, tightening his heart, and binding his whole body.
The identity card trembled crazily, and the evil spirit with red eyes on the card seemed to be aware of the approaching danger, waving tentacles made of mist and struggling violently.
An instinctive fear arises spontaneously, like a drop of rosin wrapping an ant on a tree trunk. A spiritual animal has a premonition of its own death in advance.
Death, inevitable death, is the inevitable outcome that is already doomed and written in destiny...
There is no road ahead, and in the last moment there is only a handful of fine sand in the hourglass...
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The scarlet writing was distorted on the system interface, and the wrong interface instantly occupied most of the field of view.
In the messy red, Qisi heard a "bang" and trembled uncontrollably.
The door of the Temple of Funeral was closed, and the shattered thoughts splashed huge waves in the ocean of thoughts.
Xu Wen dropped the piece of glass in her hand, stepped back, and declared calmly: "God promised me, if I kill you, everything will be over."
Qisi wanted to make a mockery of this incident with the evil god. The old routine of trading, but it was hard to laugh for a while.
Physiological fear is difficult to suppress, arousing feelings of coldness and nausea, tingling of blood vessels in the forehead, and difficulty breathing.
The shadow of the vines on the coffin was getting closer and closer, and the moment it wrapped around Qisi's limbs, it suddenly took on physical form.
Golden light surges on the slender branches, making them resemble the legendary chains that seal evil spirits.
"Should I call you stupid or something? Can a god who can make such a request really trust his promise?"
Zis felt like he was overwhelmed by a huge amount of negative emotions, pain and sadness that did not belong to him. and despair all turned into pleasure after being felt by him.
He arched his waist and asked in a trembling voice: "Is it worth it to spend so much effort just to bet on a very weak hope?"
Xu Wen smiled: "Even if there is There is a one in 10,000 chance that if you sacrifice just one person, you will have a chance to save everyone. You should try it anyway.” Ah..." Qisi was dragged towards the coffin inch by inch by the vines, and the thought bubbles in his mind exploded, making a soft sound like glass breaking.
His vision was blurry, but his voice was full of laughter: "I'm curious as to why you take it for granted that I should sacrifice. Because I am a single individual, or because you think I am a scumbag who will not regret my death. Or..."
"Because you are controlled by me and have no choice." Xu Wen said.
"The theory of the jungle?" Qisi raised his eyelids, still unable to see the scene in front of him clearly, but the corners of his lips raised slightly, "Belief in the law of the jungle, but still shouting about saving the world, what a contradiction... ..."
"I just want to save myself." Xu Wen's voice sounded so distant that it seemed to come from outside. "I originally wanted to kidnap you morally, but I didn't expect you to have no morals."
< br>She spoke seriously and her tone was cold and cold, completely different from her previous performance.
Or maybe she didn't speak at all, and the voice only existed in Zeiss's imagination.
However, it is undeniable that this answer is satisfactory.
Chisi laughed heartily.
He relaxed his body and allowed the vines to drag him into the coffin and wrap him tightly around the bottom of the cold sarcophagus.
Then, the coffin lid fell down, leaving only darkness in front of me...
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