Chapter 125: The Victims of Shuangxi Town (End)
Many years ago, Xu Yao once asked "Mr. Xu" at the time: "Our family is already so rich, why do we continue to do harmful things?"
Po Xu said: "If we don't do it, they will let others do it. If we can't give them what they want, they will no longer respect and love us, and we will not be able to gain a foothold here."
< br>The engine of evil cannot be stopped once it is started. In order to live a comfortable life, generations of descendants of the Xu family discarded their names, took over the mask called "Xu Po", and sacrificed innocent people like witches in ancient rituals. of sacrifice wine.
If nothing unexpected happens, Xu Yao will become the new "Xu Granny" one day in the future, and she can enjoy the wealth brought by her sins with peace of mind, and be influenced by her actions day after day, year after year. , accustomed to benefiting oneself at the expense of others, consuming hair and drinking blood.
But Xu Yao doesn't want this.
Call her naive or stupid. She dreamed of ending the cycle of evil in her own generation, and even used the excuse of "love at first sight" to save one of the townspeople to investigate Double Happiness Town. The county magistrate.
She and the county magistrate delayed time under the guise of preparing for a wedding, and finally collected enough evidence. She sent the magistrate out of the town and took the initiative to lure away the pursuers.
She was forced to throw herself into a dry well. She thought that was the end of the matter, but she was horrified to discover that death was not the end of everything.
Her soul was trapped at the bottom of the well, being washed away by the cold and biting well water day and night, and watching her body rot into bones.
Some people are not afraid of death because they have ideals and perseverance and have enough courage to bear the outcome of death; some people are not afraid of death because they do not know what death is, are blinded by false self-movement, and give up life impulsively and hastily.
Xu Yao is undoubtedly the latter.
When she decided to redress the grievances of the victimized girls, the worst outcome she could think of was to lose her comfortable and comfortable life and walk away from the county magistrate.
As the townspeople pressed closer and closer, she had the idea of death in desperation. On the one hand, it seemed reasonable for the Xu family to pay for the death of so many innocent people; on the other hand, she secretly felt that her death might make others feel guilty.
And now, she began to regret it. Why did she have to endure so much pain and suffering when she had done nothing wrong? Why did those people not only not blame themselves when she was clearly dead, but they didn't even spare her soul?
After all, Xu Yao was just a sixteen-year-old girl when she died. She knew a little bit about everything, but didn't know much about anything.
In the first few years, she cried day and night. As her Taoism deepened, she would saturate the surrounding ground with ghostly energy, creating some visions and nightmares.
Later, more and more corpses were thrown into the well, and she was suppressed at the bottom of the well together with countless innocent souls, unable to do anything.
Over the long years, she absorbed enough resentment, and gradually no longer cared about self-pity, but learned to resent and hate.
She complained about the cruelty of the townspeople and the ruthlessness of Po Xu, and she thought about how to take her life from them every day.
While waiting endlessly, she heard the voice of God.
God promised her to become the master of Shuangxi Town. Po Xu and the townspeople will be controlled by her like walking corpses. Xi'er and Xu Wen, who were killed recently, will also be reborn and involved together. Seven-day cycle.
Xu Yao let the townspeople die over and over again like a child, letting the players easily clear the dungeon in the first few rounds, until they got bored, and then seriously carried out the deal with the god——
Kill the outsiders who enter Shuangxi Town.
It is undeniable that she did feel a long-lost pleasure from killing: Why could those people live while she died? Why should she be trapped at the bottom of a cold well, while those people could pass by and leave in a hurry?
Hundreds of years of imprisonment made Xu Yao accustomed to hating, and she even hated the county magistrate who she personally sent out of the town.
Why didn't he come to her? Why didn't he come to save her?
When they parted, he kept saying he loved her, but why didn’t even a single person appear in the past hundred years?
Without him, she would not be in this situation...
After listening to Xu Yao's story, Qisi sighed: "That county magistrate did not abandon you . He has been looking for you for a long time, but due to the concealment of the townspeople, he has never been able to find your trace. After his death, his soul was trapped in another world, and he asked about your whereabouts when he saw people. "
"I guess even though you are trapped at the bottom of the well, you can't move around freely in the temple of mourning, and you can't see the faces of all the ghosts, right?"
Xu Yao nodded stiffly.
Qisi understood: "If my guess is correct, the evil god wants you to hate him, so he blocks you from him and deliberately lets you pass him by. I can take the liberty May I ask about the image and name of the evil god you made a deal with?"
Xu Yao's face was as green as dripping rotten water, and his eyes were empty: "He wears a black robe, and I have a specific appearance. I can't remember clearly, but I just remember that His eyes are golden... His honorable name is 'the Lord of time and space who is free from the boundary between life and death, the master of fate who is in charge of disasters and blessings, and the immortal existence who declares doomsday and apocalypse.'"
The moment the last word fell, Qiss felt that there was a line of sight falling from the sky, staring at him.
The "click" sound of broken glass was heard from the inspiration, and then nothing happened. The barrier of the world cracked and stopped the process of damage. The high-dimensional beings that were blocked outside could only look out into the distance.
Qisi knew that this was the contract [forbidden by the gods] that came into play.
His old god touched his chin on the ground, and with the attitude of a stickman, he recalled a certain line in his memory: "The person you are dealing with is the most cruel and terrifying evil god in the world. He has evil intentions for all living beings. With the same malicious intention, what he likes to do most is to induce them to commit crimes and watch them struggle because of their original sin."
"Now that the matter is over, He will definitely not let you and the county magistrate be happy. , unless..."
Qisi swallowed the subsequent words, and then approached Xu Yao mysteriously: "You may not know that there is actually more than one god in this world. There is a great being named 'Qi'..."
In the next three minutes, Qisi used up his pitiful reserve of positive words to package "Qi" into a kind god who was considerate and meddlesome. He also said that Xu Yao was welcome to pray at any time. The only price he had to pay was Just try to find a way to kill Xu Wen.
Xu Yao was noncommittal, lowering her head in thought; Qisi said no more.
On the system interface, the silver-white prompt text arrived belatedly.
[Except for you, all players have died, and the "guaranteed number of deaths" mechanism has been triggered]
[It has been detected that you no longer have the conditions to complete the main mission. Do you want to give up the main mission? Task? 】
Qisi spat out the word "yes" blearily.
The result was not satisfactory as expected, but that was all.
The main mission is to take Xu Wen out of Shuangxi Town. However, Xu Wen has clearly sided with the enemy. It seems that she does not need the player's rescue at all.
The most troublesome thing is that as long as she hides in the temple of mourning, Xu Yao can't get through for a while, and he can't kill her, so naturally he can't bring her body out...
Chisi can't go down the well again and say to her with a sullen face, "The guy you made the deal with has been kicked out. You can accompany me one more time," right?
[You have abandoned the main mission, and your evaluation level will be significantly reduced] [Congratulations to the player for clearing the team survival copy "Double Happiness Town"]
The system tone is as cold as ever, and the word "Congratulations" is heard. It sounds ironic.
Qi Si stared blankly, watching the light dim, just like the screen before the movie started, and there was sound and light at a certain moment.
First is an ancient passage.
[There was a small opening under the well, as if there was light. Zhang Sheng was panic-stricken and didn't know where to go, so he entered through the opening and suddenly became enlightened. 】
【The land is flat and vast, and the houses are like this. Men, women, old and young, all wearing shrouds, are living in the netherworld. 】
【Enter the funeral temple, burn incense and complain about grievances. The oracle said: "On the sixth day of the lunar month, guard the temple to avoid paper figures; on the seventh day, look for a companion and help the coffin out."]
[Zhang Sheng, as he said, finally returned to his hometown. When he arrived in the county, he went to Pengcheng's command and said so, so he sent the county magistrate to follow him. 】
Then there is a modern image.
In the white-walled office, two men were having a heated discussion about Shuangxi Town.
"Director, someone has disappeared in Shuangxi Town again. It is basically confirmed that Shuangxi Town is a regional weird event. I went to measure the weird fluctuations around it. It is at least a B-level weird thing." The speaker was a young man with tied hair in a white uniform. His face could not be seen clearly, but he could clearly read the words written on the ID tag on his chest - [Odd Investigation Bureau].
Behind the desk facing the young man, a middle-aged man asked calmly: "Xiao Xiao, did those missing people actively enter the scope of Shuangxi Town?"
"Yes." The young man said reproachfully, "If we had moved faster and closed the no-traffic zone earlier, they would not have..."
The middle-aged man interrupted him: "At least now, we Now that you know how this works, as long as you don’t enter a specific area, you won’t be affected. Immediately report it to the headquarters, declare Shuangxi Town a no-go zone, and then build a wall with cement.”
"Then... what to do with those missing people?"
The middle-aged man sighed: "Do you know what Class B weirdness means? Even if our entire branch is filled in, we may not be able to handle it well. , maybe it will cause a change! This is the best situation now, and nothing will happen if you don’t get close. If it needs to swallow a few people on a regular basis, I will ask the council for permission and throw a few criminals in."
"But four people have already disappeared. Their parents and children are sitting in the Public Security Bureau..."
"Let the Public Security Bureau delay it. If it doesn't work, we will transfer a few homeless people from the army. Filling them in without room is also an explanation to them. They just want some money. If they still don't stop, they will be treated as a rebel organization."
"..."
"Xiao Xiao, you need to know that we cannot save everyone, nor can we withstand unnecessary losses. In the face of the fate of all mankind, small sacrifices are necessary..."
The picture slowly faded, and the sound It also gradually faded away, and the lines of silver-white text were refreshed one after another.
[Individual suffering is not worth mentioning for the comfort of the group. Vested interests weave and advocate benevolence and morality, cherish feathers, stand by and watch, and euphemistically call it "necessary sacrifice"]
< br>["Double Happiness Town" NormalEnd-"Victim" has been included]
[The copy will be automatically transmitted after three minutes]
After seeing the dazzling words "Normal End", Zeiss made up his mind to write down the evil god known as the "Lord of Time and Space" in his notebook as soon as the copy was published.
However, what he is more concerned about right now is the "Weird Investigation Bureau" that appears in the video.
Does this institution only exist in the background of copies, or is it also possible to appear in reality?
......
In the underground world, Li Yao walked aimlessly in the white alleys, mixed with the shadowy souls, and her figure was as blurry as mist.
She remembered that she had died, but her memory of death had been erased. As an NPC who provided clues, she wandered endlessly in Double Happiness Town.
Now, although she has recovered her past memories, she also knows: when this dungeon ends, the players will either die here or go their separate ways. Only she will return to the starting point and change again. Reply to an NPC who knows nothing.
The past was muddled, and the future will be muddled, with no hope or ending in sight.
Li Yao sighed to herself, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a beam of golden light from the corner of her eye, rising into the sky from the temple of mourning in the distance.
This is a scene that has never been encountered in any previous cycle. Li Yao chased the golden light by mistake, walked all the way to the Temple of Funeral, pushed the door open and entered.
There are no statues of gods or figures in the temple, only a huge coffin placed in the center of the hall.
The golden light leaked from the gap in the coffin.
Li Yao stepped forward and pushed open the coffin lid with difficulty. All the light was extinguished the moment the coffin lid fell to the ground, leaving only a pale corpse lying across the coffin.
“Qi Wen?” Li Yao recognized the identity of the person in the coffin and exclaimed.
She pulled the man out of the coffin, half dragging, half dragging, and felt the cold skin and stiff muscles of the other person, judging that the young man had been dead for a long time.
Even though she knew that she was an NPC and "Qi Wen" was a player, with completely different identities, Li Yao still felt a little sad.
She knows that the taste of death is unpleasant, so she always hopes that others can live well without having to suffer the pain of death.
"If you die here, you will turn into a paper man, right? It's a pity that I will forget about you soon. I will probably be chased around by you in the next round of the game, right?" Li Yao smiled bitterly. murmured to himself.
Maybe it was because her memory had just recovered and there were too many things to say, so she leaned against the coffin and started talking.
From being killed to saving people, saving people, saving people...
If a living Zis was lying here, he would probably be so disgusted that his head would be scratched. Fortunately, Zis is currently mocking the hypocrisy of "humanism" with the video of NE clearance, and he can't even hear Li Si, who is a world away. Yao's glorious past.
"The last copy...um..." Li Yao was distracted while talking, and her lowered hand rubbed the pulp of the little finger of the corpse's right hand.
The next second, a string of text prompts popped up in front of her eyes:
[Name: Evil God Finger Bone]
[Type: Prop]
[Effect:...]
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