Chapter 11 I climbed over the wall and window in the village
The three of them simply buried the body and returned from the mountains. It was only morning, and there was still a long time before Zhou Yongsheng's funeral was discussed in the village.
In fact, by now in the game, the small group among the deducers has become obvious. Except for the missing Carlos and the dead Ju Lan, the two Xu brothers have basically had zero communication with Yu Xing and the others. It is not known whether they have discovered anything.
clue.
I entered the village at dusk last night, had dinner and then separated. I haven't integrated the information until now. This seems a bit stupid to Yu Xing. This group of people has too rigid consciousness and only activities with familiar and trusted people.
, completely failed to take advantage of the number of people, just like a piece of loose sand.
Only Carlos had the awareness to set up information, but he didn't know where he was hiding and tinkering with something.
He felt that... nothing had happened to Carlos. There was something about this blue-haired magician.
In short, having said all that, the deducers in this game are still inexperienced. Otherwise, even people who have conflicts with each other will exchange information based on their own judgment, because deducing the truth is an unshakable thing to survive.
Common goal.
At that moment, with some villagers looking at them strangely, Yu Xing made a suggestion to Xiao Xuechen and Wei Fan——
It's still early, I'm afraid the key point of the game will be tonight. They should use this free time to find out more information about Guanjiacun.
Investigate separately, then gather together to integrate and analyze the information clues.
Neither Xiao Xuechen nor Wei Fan had any objections. There was nothing wrong with splitting up. They were not in a horror movie after all. Unlike the tragic protagonists of horror movies, they had the ability to fight against ghosts, and in broad daylight, the types of accidents were limited, so they were not that difficult to deal with.
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Although the houses in this small village were dilapidated, the overall layout was quite square. After acting alone, Yu Xing quietly climbed over the wall and entered several courtyards. He found that almost every house had one or two empty rooms. He didn't know what he was doing in the first place.
use.
In addition, he also paid special attention to whether there were coffins in the homes of these villagers. After all, if the coffin village only had one coffin in the ancestral hall, it would be too low-profile.
As an outsider with an eye-catching appearance, it still took a lot of effort for him to pry into various things without being noticed.
We didn't have lunch at noon. After what happened last night, Xiao Xuechen, the others, and the Xu family brothers all refused to go to the village chief's house because they had no appetite. Even Yu Xing, who seemed to have a great appetite from beginning to end, simply said he didn't want to.
have eaten.
In the afternoon, he leaned against a wall and took a breath. His originally white shirt was stained by the movement, and there was dust on his palms from climbing over the wall.
After basically inquiring... there was something that really made him feel something was wrong, and it broadened his ideas of speculation.
For example, these villagers don't visit each other at all. If they want to chat together, they will go to the open space outside the house. It's like every house has strict regulations and the number of people cannot be too large. Combined with the rules and regulations for them as deducers at night,
He vaguely felt that this was a very important clue.
Another example is the rickety old man they met when they first entered the village. Yu Xing looked at almost every house and never saw him again.
The old man seemed to appear out of thin air and disappear again.
There is also the most unscientific point - this village has no farmland, and no one is responsible for purchasing outside the village. The villagers have three meals a day. Where do the meat and vegetables come from?
And... there is no cemetery. Where are the people who have died in the village over the years buried?
The appointment time with Xiao Xuechen and Wei Fan was at four o'clock. Just after three o'clock, Yu Xing ran to Ju Lan's room.
He stepped in through the window and took a leisurely look inside the house.
Ju Lan's backpack is placed in the corner of the room, and two wooden beds are placed side by side across the aisle. One of the beds has obvious signs of sleeping on it, and the other bed...
The quilt was lifted, and there was a small paper man in the center of the bed.
Yu Xing couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. This was obviously placed here intentionally by Carlos. The magician seemed to always have a small paper man in his hand, which was very interesting.
He walked over and could infer from the traces at the scene that after Ju Lan woke up at night, he got out of his bed and was surprised to find that his companion was missing. He opened Carlos' quilt and found the paper man, and then walked all the way to the door.
She must have been persuaded by something and opened the door... Then, things took a turn for the worst.
After some simple speculation, Yu fortunately ruled out the possibility that Carlos had a different mission from theirs and intentionally harmed people.
He was sure that Carlos was a human and not a ghost, so if Carlos wanted to kill Ju Lan, there was no need to go to such trouble.
He turned his attention to the paper man again, picked it up and looked at it.
Carlos's paper figures are all three-dimensional and are paper figures rather than paper figures.
The paper man is only as big as a palm. What is strange is that the originally pure white paper man is still stained with blood, with more than half of his head missing, and there are several cracks on his body.
"This scar... is the same as Ju Lan's. Could it be that he was a paper man substitute who bore the curse of the night rules for Carlos?" Yu Xing narrowed his eyes. At this moment, a voice suddenly appeared in his mind.
[Remaining traces of sacrifices were found and are being judged]
[Your level is lower than the other party, information acquisition failed]
"Ah, this is the sacrifice?" Although he had already guessed it, he still became interested when he heard the system's confirmation.
Whether it was Zhao Yijiu's knife before or Carlos's paper man now, they all had some attraction for Yu Xing.
Because...he himself has an invisible and intangible sacrifice, and he vaguely knows what it is. Therefore, he needs to get in touch with the sacrifice more to study things that he could not touch before.
Yu Xing held the little paper figure that seemed to be dead and said to himself in a low voice: "Hmm... No, this is not a sacrifice, it is just a form of display of the sacrifice's ability, and it is still residual."
When Carlos came to exchange information last night, a paper man's head was cut open on the spot in order to "perform a magic trick," so there was definitely more than one paper man on Carlos' body.
The real sacrifice was probably carried by Carlos, and the bed was just one of the ways to use it.
Looking at the room, there wasn't even Carlos' backpack. He must have taken the bag with him when he left.
Yu Xing: "Did Carlos leave Guanjia Village and go to the town over the mountain?"
This is a new idea. The mission only requires them to attend the funeral. It does not say whether they can leave before the funeral.
In fact, no one stipulated that they had to stay in Guanjiacun until the funeral started, so they could leave at any time as long as they came back before the funeral started.
It was the first time for Yu Xing to play this kind of deduction game. He didn't think about it for a while, but now his eyes lit up.
Having learned it, he opened new doors!
In future deduction games...his ideas will definitely be more divergent!
Hope the ghost is okay.
This is what he found in Ju Lan's room. After coming out, Yu Xing turned a corner and came to the house where the Xu family brothers were. The family's yard was a little smaller than the village chief's house, but there was only one old lady living there, so the remaining
There are two vacant rooms, one is given to Xu Yuan and Xu Hong, and the other is given to Wei Fan.
According to Wei Fan, these two brothers are the ultimate homebodies, staying in their rooms all the time.
Sitting and waiting for death can only be done by fools, which is obviously inconsistent with the deducers who have to use their brains in every deduction game. Otherwise, these people would not be alive today.
So the Xu brothers must have a way to obtain information.
This time he did not climb over the wall or window, but tidied up his clothes and knocked on the old lady's door.
More than twenty seconds later.
"Squeak——"
The door was obviously old and it made a sharp sound. A short old lady was holding on to the door with one hand and leaning on a cane in the other hand. There was no emotion on her wrinkled face.
She asked in a hoarse voice: "Who are you?"
This old lady has inconvenient legs and feet. Yu Xing has never seen her outside, and other villagers will not come in. In other words, this old lady is in the stage of being blocked from information. Except for the three outsiders who came in last night, the village chief knocked on the door.
Other than that, she probably doesn't know anything.
"Hello, mother-in-law, I came to play with the people who live in your house." Yu Xing winked obediently and did not say his name.
"Visitors from out of town... come in." The old lady staggered out of the way, and Yu Xing walked in easily.
This yard is really bad, some of the weeds have grown very tall, but the old lady probably has difficulty moving and cannot clean it up.
Yu Xing thanked the old lady and walked to the Xu brothers' room.
The door to the room was tightly closed, and the sound of conversation could be vaguely heard in the room with almost no sound insulation. Unfortunately, these two people were probably experienced and could only hear the sound, and the content of the conversation was completely unclear.
He raised his hand and knocked on the door twice.
"who?"
"I am san."
The person who opened the door was Xu Hong, who was wearing black clothes. He glanced behind Yu Xing with vigilant eyes, and then asked: "So it's you, is something wrong?"
"You said before that this village is evil, but now I believe it." It started with a logical connection between characters, Yu Xing innocently spread his hands, "I saw some terrible things last night, Ju Lan also died today, I think
After thinking about it, you two Feng Shui masters must know what's going on, right? Hey..."
"I'm just a painter with no skills, so I want to communicate with you. I wonder if you two can save me?"
Xu Hong was still hesitating, but Xu Yuan in the room understood what he meant and raised his voice: "Brother, let him come in."
"Come in." Xu Hong made the invitation after hearing this.
Yu Xing smiled gratefully and stepped into the dim room.
After entering, he quickly looked around the room quietly. The sun was shining brightly at the moment, but the Xu brothers covered the windows with a gorgeous cloth to prevent light from entering.
Xu Yuan was sitting cross-legged on a hardwood bed, with a piece of parchment spread in front of him and a bunch of odd and odd objects beside him. His eyes moved as Yu Xing moved around, and then he said: "We have indeed calculated something about the relationship between
It’s something from Jiacun, but it’s useless for you people if you know about it, so it’s best to leave as soon as possible.”
The logic of this character is also good... Yu Xing glanced at the content on the parchment. It seemed to be a hand-drawn map, with mountains surrounding it and a dense grid in the middle.
Strangely, after he got close to the parchment, the cold feeling appeared again, but it was weaker than the candlestick in the village chief's house, and it did not have any obvious impact on him.
Yu Xing suppressed his discomfort, took another look, and then smiled shyly: "Before, I was ignorant and agreed to the village chief to stay for the funeral. If I want to leave midway, who knows what will happen. Two eldest brothers, I know Feng Shui.
On the one hand, you are experts, and there are some secrets that cannot be disclosed to outsiders, but... human lives are at stake, and I also have some additional information that I may be able to exchange with you."
This is what I've been waiting for.
Xu Yuan glanced at his brother and then nodded: "In that case, that's fine."
…
Half an hour later, Yu Xing left the Xu brothers' room.
He saw the old lady sitting in the courtyard, looking lonely, thought about it, and walked over with a smile.
The old lady was tapping the cane in her hand, looking up at the sky above the yard, lost in thought.
"Old lady, are you alone?" Yu Xing sat directly opposite the old lady and started chatting regardless of whether the old lady agreed or not, "What are you looking at?"
"I'm looking at...the outside world." The old lady didn't lower her head, but she was still fascinated.
A cunning look flashed across Yu Xing's eyes, and he tentatively said, "If you want to go for a walk, I can help you."
"No, not outside, but...the outside world." The old lady showed a sad look. In fact, she was the only old man Yu Xing saw in this village except the old man at the entrance of the village.
"What is the outside world? You mean... outside the mountains?"
"Yes... I also went out when I was young." The nostalgia in the old lady's eyes became more and more intense. Perhaps it was because no one had talked to her for too long. It didn't take much effort for Yu Xing to open up her chat box.
"People in our village have all worked hard outside, some going to school and some working." The old lady spoke clearly and it was not difficult to distinguish her words.
"But, in the end, we will all be pulled back, and then, we will stay in the village forever..."
Yu Xing listened and sneered inwardly: Ha, are you just like Zhou Yongsheng?
He went to school well, but when he came back, he was strangled to death.
He wanted to ask the old lady why she kept coming back, but the old lady didn't seem to have a clear understanding of the problem, and she didn't say anything after going around for a long time.
So Yu Xing changed the question: "Mother-in-law, do you know an old man in the village? I saw him at the entrance of the village when my friend and I came here. He was also standing on crutches. He looked very old."
"Old man?" The old lady was confused for a moment, "I should be the last old man in this village. Oh, did you see him by the locust tree?"
Yu Xing nodded: "That's right."
"He...he was the previous village chief. After Zhou Facai came back from town, he buried him under the locust tree. He...had been dead a long time ago!"