Being lost in the mountains in this kind of winter is not a fun thing, it can even be said to be very scary.
You must know that winter in the north can freeze people to death.
Pingchu put his hands in his pockets and walked forward slowly. Not far away was a red cloth strip. He bit the phone in his mouth, took it off the book, and quickly read it. Arrived handwriting.
[300 meters ahead, turn right. 】
When he was trying to find a shelter from the wind like a headless fly, he suddenly saw a different red cloth strip. After Pingchu removed the red cloth strip, he found that it was a message to guide him to a place. He still used official sign, but this route is neither downhill nor uphill.
Pingchu realized that there was also an official like him who was halfway down the mountain and came back. He was chased and beaten by the villagers on the mountain, and finally escaped the villagers and was trapped on the mountain.
While patrolling the route, Pingchu saw a sunken cave. He entered the cave with his mobile phone and soon saw some traces of human life.
The playground is perfect here. There will be no wild creatures in the cave, it will be stable, and the buildings will not collapse due to any natural disasters.
Pingchu felt that the wind had subsided and his body had warmed up a little, but soon he saw a skeleton.
The skeleton is wearing the uniform of their official personnel, but it is an old model from five or six years ago, and it is still a summer model. At first glance, it seems that he was unlucky enough to be trapped in the game field during the summer inspection, and he most likely froze to death. here.
Pingchu looked at the things inside. He missed the small stove and pot in the outpost, the hot water and the dry food that he couldn't bite.
Unfortunately, he has nothing now and can only survive in the wilderness.
Pingchu found a place to sit down, which happened to be right next to the skeleton. He was not afraid. After sitting down, he apologized and looked for anything useful on the skeleton. Unfortunately, there was nothing to eat on the skeleton. The only thing he drank was a piece of paper that he kept well hidden in his arms.
Pingchu unfolded the paper and saw the words on it. The handwriting was a bit messy, as if it was written when he was too cold to hold the pen.
[The Xiaoqing Line cannot leave the mountain village. The end of the Xiaoqing Line is an extension of the game field. After entering, you will face Xiaoqing's revenge. 】
[Yayaya is a strange object born by Xiaoqing. For the villagers in the mountain village, any player who sees Yaya will be killed by her, so when you encounter Yaya, you must pretend you haven't seen it. 】
[Yaya is dead. She is a strange object and cannot communicate! 】
[The village chief line has not been opened yet, but the village chief line must be very important! If you want to leave your status as a villager, you must go through the village chief line! 】
[We must break away from the identity of villagers as soon as possible. Xiaoqing Line targets all villagers. Soon Yaya will kill all villagers, including players! 】
[If you reach the end of the road and guide Yaya to kill the village chief, if the village chief dies, the villagers will fight among themselves. 】
Pingchu exhaled and spread his breath on the paper. He could feel his hands shaking. The words that were not clear enough were even less clear because of the shaking hands, but there was no way. Pingchu was very cold, because Shivering caused by cold is a physiological phenomenon, and this subconscious physiological phenomenon is difficult to control.
With trembling hands, he turned to the next page and read the text on the second page.
[The punishment room is very important! I checked a lot of information and confirmed that there is no punishment house in this village, and there is no such punishment house even in reality. 】
[But after we entered the game field, we all subconsciously ignored the problem of the punishment house. 】
[There must be something wrong with the punishment house! 】
Punishment house?
Pingchu recalled with his brain that was almost frozen by Dong.
They first appeared in the punishment room. Why did they appear in it? He Yufeng guessed that it was related to Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe directly replaced Xiaoqing, which caused them to appear in the punishment room together. And according to the clues, they arrived better than other officials. The time line for personnel should be early.
The punishment room was very dark, but they did not immediately realize that it was in a mountain village because the decoration of their outpost was inside.
It was only when they were looking through the telescope that they realized they were looking at their illuminated outpost, and that they were in a mountain village.
The village chief, Yaya and the punishment house.
Pingchu was a little unsure of the paper in his hand. He slowly lay down, took off the Xia uniform on the skeleton and put it on himself.
Ignoring this for now, he has to find a way to spend tonight.
If you freeze to death here, you will fail.
On the other side, Xiao Qing had already fallen asleep, and Shen Yunzhe immediately decided to go out and take a look.
When Xiaoqing is awake, he has an absolute restriction, that is, he cannot leave Xiaoqing too far and must always be where Xiaoqing can see him. But at night, when Xiaoqing falls asleep, there is no such restriction. .
Shen Yunzhe has always felt that the village chief should have a clue. Especially today when the village chief led the villagers to fight Ping Chu, he was even more convinced of this idea.
Even if it doesn't matter, he must know why there is a rule that "villagers are not allowed to leave the village".
The village chief's house is easy to find. The houses in the mountain village are in a mess. The biggest and most beautiful one is the village chief's house. Although the biggest and most beautiful one doesn't look very good, after all, it was built with the village chief more than 20 years ago. In isolated mountain villages, stone houses are better than yellow mud thatched houses.
Walking to the village chief's house, Shen Yunzhe unexpectedly saw light coming from the crack of the door. Shen Yunzhe stretched out his hand and pushed the door. The door opened with a creak, and the wind blew in and made the candle flame sway.
The village chief, who was still asleep, was stunned for a moment. He walked to the door and took a look outside. Shen Yunzhe also took the opportunity to come in.
"No one." The village chief frowned slightly. He looked around again and then closed the door. "It must have been too windy."
Because he couldn't see Yaya, the village chief couldn't see Shen Yunzhe who came in. Shen Yunzhe walked around the village chief's house openly.
He wanted to see if anyone from the official past had left any information here, but unfortunately he didn't.
I don't know whether it was because the village chief was too secretive or because they didn't feel that there was a trace on the village chief's body. At least there was no trace left in the village chief's home.
The village chief sat on the bed without saying a word, while Shen Yunzhe stood beside him and looked at him.
He was still like that after a long time.
"He doesn't know what he's doing?" Shen Yunzhe touched his chin and asked, "Speaking of this kind of role-playing game, are some weird things that have no role in the play just at home?"
"Can I scare him?"
Anyway, his current identity is Yaya, the only weird thing currently who specializes in killing villagers!
【You have a lot more bad taste than before. 】
"This is definitely not my problem, it's the code name Thousand Faces." Shen Yunzhe found a scapegoat without even blinking. "I never did this before, but now I have become so evil. When... But it's the influence of the same body."
[What I mean is: Don't do such evil things. If there is a problem with the character, you will be killed by the plot. 】
"Now Yaya's only restriction is Xiaoqing, and there are no restrictions other than that." Shen Yunzhe said: "Even the villagers don't know what kind of existence Yaya is, and I am different from the living Yaya. It's a strange thing born from Xiaoqing's longing and self-blame."
"In other words: As long as it is beneficial to Xiaoqing, I can do anything."
The system stopped talking, as if it was persuaded by Shen Yunzhe.
But just when Shen Yunzhe was about to take action, the village chief suddenly spoke.
"Damn, someone escaped again, someone came down the mountain again."
"Why? Isn't my village good?"
Shen Yunzhe was stunned for a moment. He blinked at the village chief and even rubbed his eyes.
Because at that moment, the village chief's voice and posture were more like a graceful woman than the little old man during the day. He stood up and even walked with a very feminine pace. Shen Yunzhe just watched the village chief walking around in the house.
"Why did you leave the village? Why did you leave me!"
The village chief made an angry voice, "I clearly promised that I would never leave!"
Finally, the village chief pulled out a portrait from under the pillow. There was a man on the portrait. He was hugging the portrait, with resentment and hatred in his eyes, but his hands were subconsciously gentle. The village chief used the gesture of a little daughter to calm down. This portrait lies together in bed.
"Why did you leave me behind? Do you like that Xiaoqing so much?!"
"Damn Xiaoqing! You seductive bitch!"
"I'm going to kill her!"
Shen Yunzhe watched this scene.
"Although I don't know what happened, the village chief has become hostile to Xiaoqing, which should be enough to become Yaya's target, right?"
[But I think the village chief will have a role to play in the future. 】
Shen Yunzhe sighed, he would have taken action directly without asking the system.
After that, the village chief kept talking to himself. This was different from Shen Yunzhe's talking to himself. Shen Yunzhe was talking to the system, while the village chief was really talking to himself.
He was vehemently insulting Xiaoqing, and after finishing the scolding, he still missed a man. This man's name was: Shengli. He talked about how good Shengli was, that Shengli was deceived by Xiaoqing, and why he had to leave Shengli behind. He left the village, and then came the original voice of the village chief. The village chief called his daughter to tell her not to panic.
Only then did Shen Yunzhe realize: It turned out that the girl who acted like a little girl just now was the village chief's daughter, named Yue Hong.
"The village chief and his daughter are two people?" Shen Yunzhe said: "Isn't this the setting in the novel?"
[This is a game field, and even the strange creature Yaya appears. 】
"Too."
Shen Yunzhe continued to listen. From Yue Hong's mouth, Shen Yunzhe learned that this Shengli was a boy who grew up in the village. He lived very close to the village chief's family. He and Yue Hong were childhood sweethearts. They had agreed that they would get married when they reached the age. In this kind of mountain village, it is normal for girls to get married at the age of fifteen.
But unexpectedly, because Erniu couldn't find a wife, he bought a wife from the mountain, that is, Xiaoqing.
Xiaoqing was a kidnapped college student. She was only twenty years old when she came here. Her legs were almost broken by Erniu after several attempts to escape, so she had to give up temporarily and try to find another opportunity. So she became quiet. She also gave birth to her first daughter Yaya.
Shengli met Xiaoqing outside the punishment room. At that time, the boy still had some conscience, so he couldn't help but give Xiaoqing a corn bun in the punishment room.
Seeing the victory, Xiaoqing had second thoughts. She wanted to teach this child who had not yet been completely contaminated, so she decided to teach him to write and let him leave the village and find someone to save her in the big city.
Shengli, who was born in a mountain village and has lived in a mountain village since childhood, was indeed attracted by the vast and wonderful world Xiaoqing talked about.
In this way, after learning to write with Xiaoqing for a year, he decided to leave the mountain village.
On the third day after he left, Erniu beat Xiaoqing half to death, only to learn that Shengli had gone down the mountain. Yuehong, who thought she and Shengli's childhood sweetheart, quietly left at night to look for Shengli, but ended up slipping and falling to her death on the mountain at night. , they only brought back Yuehong's body.
Since then, there have been village rules in the village.
After the village rules were established, the village chief suddenly discovered that his daughter Yuehong had awakened in his body.
"According to Yaya's age, Shengli left the village for at least three years." Shen Yunzhe said, "But he never came back."
"Xiaoqing has been waiting for three years, but no one has come to save her."
Xiaoqing's madness may not only be due to Yaya's death, but also the expectations that she has carefully kept for the past three years. With Yaya's death, she can only go crazy.
During the next day, when He Yufeng came to see him, Shen Yunzhe told him what he saw last night.
"Since this rule has an effect, it only means that Yuehong is as strange as Yaya." He Yufeng analyzed, "Because of what she has experienced, she wrote down that she is not allowed to help Xiaoqing and is not allowed to pay attention to the punishment. house and not leaving the village."
"Because he is the creator of the rules, the village chief can know who has left the village immediately. In other words... the villagers may be the village chief's puppets."
"He can know the status of every villager."
Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly, "But in this case, wouldn't you always be a villager? Yaya will kill villagers every day, and one day he will kill the village chief, and one day he will kill you."
He Yufeng also frowned, "The identity of the villagers must be dealt with as soon as possible, but the village chief cannot let the villagers leave."
As He Yufeng sorted out the clues, he thought for a long time, "If the identity of the villagers cannot be dealt with, Yaya will definitely kill the villagers. Can it be done like Pingchu?"
"You're talking about not going down the mountain like Pingchu, but leaving the village? Moving in that mountain?"
Shen Yunzhe thought for a while, "But we can't leave the game field."
"Yes." He Yufeng nodded, "Then what should we do?"
Shen Yunzhe thought with him. After thinking for a long time, Shen Yunzhe felt that his idea last night was really good.
"He Yufeng." Shen Yunzhe said, "What will happen if I kill the village chief as Yaya?"
"What?!" He Yufeng was a little surprised, "Why don't you think about it better? Let's not say that the moon red in the village chief's body is a strange thing, not to mention that the village chief obviously has a plot, you Killing him now will make it clear that we don't need any clues behind the village chief, and we might get a plot kill due to changes in the plot."
Shen Yunzhe shook his head, "No, this is obviously within the scope of Yaya's rules."
"Yaya is a strange thing born from Xiaoqing. It targets everyone who hurts Xiaoqing, whether it is Erniu, the village chief or Yuehong."
"And I thought about it again and again. If I want this rule to disappear, I must deal with the village chief who leads the rule, or Yue Hong."
"At least after this rule disappears, the villagers will no longer besiege Pingchu."
He Yufeng opened his mouth. He didn't know what to say. Indeed, what Shen Yunzhe said made sense. As long as the village chief and Yue Hong were dealt with, then this rule would most likely be invalid and Pingchu could come back safely, but the other party could It is a strange object. Although Shen Yunzhe's current identity is that of a strange object, how can a player be an enemy of a strange object!
He's really going to die.
"I know Shen Wei must have left something for you, but don't take the risk." He Yufeng said: "Shen Yunzhe, your value is far greater than ours. I have a replacement even if Ping Chu dies, but you don't. We In fact, neither of them thought that they could leave safely and survive safely."
"You can't." He Yufeng looked at him, "Although saying this is a bit pretentious and a bit morally kidnapped."
"But you are the only miracle we can count on in the real world."
"What are you thinking about?" Shen Yunzhe said with a smile: "I didn't come here to die."
He came to the mountain village to find the way to the core game field, find the missing Shen Wei, and return home with the code name Hope.
It was never for the sake of dying here, let alone for the sake of others.
"There is a very risky method." Shen Yunzhe said: "If it is discovered that he is not the original person, can the substitute object be changed immediately? What is the probability of the new substitute object being discovered?"
【Can. 】
"Can?"
[You have chosen a good identity. Yaya is a strange thing that completely belongs to Xiaoqing. She is affiliated with Xiaoqing and has low thinking. In other words, she is just a child and is very easy to deceive. As long as Xiaoqing If you don't doubt it, then you can always pretend to be a good Yaya. 】
"Shen Yunzhe?" He Yufeng called him, "Who are you talking to?"
Shen Yunzhe turned around and made a shushing gesture to He Yufeng. He stood up and walked out. Xiaoqing was cooking at this time. When she was cooking, she didn't care about what was going on outside. She focused on everything. It is to prepare something to eat for my daughter Yaya.
He Yufeng looked at Shen Yunzhe in front of him strangely, and he immediately followed.
I saw Shen Yunzhe walking to the door of the village chief. The village chief was smoking a cigarette at the door. Shen Yunzhe was standing in front of the village chief.
At that moment, He Yufeng was surprised to find that Shen Yunzhe was disappearing. His entire body disappeared into the air, leaving only a familiar child. The wet girl stood there with bare feet. She slowly turned her head. He and He Yufeng looked at each other, and He Yufeng's figure was reflected in his dead white eyes.
She grinned at He Yufeng.
At that moment He Yufeng realized that Yaya had turned back into Yaya.
What about Shen Yunzhe?
The village chief twisted. He suddenly stood up and twisted his body in a weird posture. The unfinished dry cigarette fell to the ground.
"Dad!" The village chief made a voice, but it was Yuehong's cry, "Dad, what are you doing?!"
"where are you going?!"
Soon, the strangely twisted village chief, who seemed to be unable to control his body, stopped moving, and stopped making moon-red shouts. He walked forward step by step, and He Yufeng realized that the direction he was walking in was the cemetery.
He Yufeng quickly caught up. He had no idea what the village chief was going to do.
Why did you suddenly make such a strange move? Where did Shen Yunzhe go? Where is the village chief going now?
In this way, He Yufeng followed the village chief all the way to the cemetery. It was a place that He Yufeng was very familiar with because Pingchu jumped from here.
Standing at the edge of the village, the village chief laughed. He Yufeng was very sure that he heard the voice belonging to Shen Yunzhe.
"What happens if the creator of the rules breaks the rules?"
"Who are you?! What did you do to my dad's body?! What are you going to do?!"
"No, no!"
Under He Yufeng's surprised eyes and Yue Hong's scream, Shen Yunzhe controlled the village chief's body and jumped directly.
Since then: the village chief violated the rules, and the strange creature Yue Hong violated the rules.