The villain's daily corpse collection

At dinner, everyone sat at the same table.

Wang Wei still had no appetite, but he could not resist the feeding from his "grandmother". He had to continue playing the role and could not refuse the bowl of rice in front of him, so he broke his vow again.

Nu Ku didn't speak to them the whole time, but the old man did ask a lot of questions, and Wang Wei and Huo Feng answered them one by one.

Wang Wei then realized that Huo Feng was quite good at lying. After all, the relationship between them was just a simple master-disciple relationship, but he made it sound as if they really had a relationship.

In order to avoid being exposed, she always passed the conversation to Lord Xiao Huo and pretended to be shy and avoided answering. This was also the strategy of the two.

Perhaps because he has seen all kinds of human life and understands the most simple wishes of mortals, Huo Feng can always answer questions fluently, as if he has used all he has seen in his life.

Wang Wei listened with a smile, occasionally adding a sentence, it seemed that they were having a good conversation. At this moment, she didn't care what was said, after all, it was this time.

Nuku couldn't stand it any longer and left the table early. But these words made the old man smile.

Finally, Master Wang and his disciple returned to their room, ending the first day of exploration.

Wang Wei tried to sense the monster's eyeball that she had thrown at a high place during the day. It had clearly been working outside the village before, so why did it stop responding as soon as she entered the village?

Even though she had lost all her strength, she was still much more perceptive than an ordinary person. She sensed someone outside, so she poked a hole in the window paper and saw an unexpected person passing by, heading towards the direction of many abandoned houses.

Good ink?

Wasn't he dragged away by the monster?

At that time, one of his arms was cut off and he was dragged away, so there was no time to catch him. But now that I see him again, he looks... pretty healthy.

So weird.

The fog outside was very thick, and the figure was moving away into the distance, then it could no longer be seen clearly.

Huo Feng made the bed. The bed here was very narrow, and considering their identities this time, the two of them could only squeeze together.

"Where are you going?" Huo Feng omitted the address, fearing that there might be eavesdroppers on the other side of the wall, even if it was just a kind-looking old lady.

"I saw a familiar face. I'm going to go out and see if I'm mistaken. You go to sleep first."

Wang Wei walked towards the door, and Grandma Li appeared in front of her holding a lamp from somewhere.

"Xiao Wei, where do you want to go so late? I told you not to go out at night. You can't go out. Come home now, and grandma can't lose you again." She clutched Wang Wei's sleeve. Wang Wei stared at her eyes for a long time, nodded slightly, and went back to the room. The old man considerately let down the curtain at the door of the room.

Wang Wei was lying on the outside. She was never really sleepy, but today her eyelids were particularly heavy.

She turned her head to look at Huo Feng. Huo Feng noticed her gaze, opened his eyes and looked over, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Wang Wei turned sideways and whispered, "I saw Liang Mo. He was clearly dragged away by the monster, and only his arm was saved. But just now I saw him outside, and his arm wasn't even broken."

Huo Feng showed a puzzled expression, but soon he was relieved: "Nothing is strange in this place."

Soon, accompanied by the thick night fog, the two of them fell into a drowsy sleep with their feet touching each other.

She didn't know how long it had been before she heard the sounds of "dong, dong, dong" beside her ears, as if something was walking. She smelled a strange smell, which was dangerous and exciting.

But she held back and didn't open her eyes.

A man in a black robe came in front of her holding an oil lamp. Those gazes fell on her like a rain of fire, making her feel uneasy. Some lamp oil even dripped on her feet accidentally or deliberately.

There was a whisper in her ears, a language she couldn't understand. But she understood one sentence:

"...seven days, and seven more days..."

The lamp oil smelled so strong that it almost covered up the refreshing scent.

After looking at it, there was another regular "dong, dong, dong" sound, which went away from near and the feeling of being showered by fire also disappeared.

Wang Wei suddenly opened her eyes, sat up from the couch, took out the tinderbox she had put away during the day, and lit up the entire room. There were only her and Huo Feng in the room, no one else, but there were some messy marks on the ground, which did not look like normal human footprints.

She avoided the traces, left the house from the side, followed the traces on the ground, and left the yard.

The fog outside was getting thicker. After walking about five steps outside the house, I could hardly see the house clearly. The mist was gray-green and mixed with many different smells, making it difficult for Wang Wei to tell the direction. His ankle was still aching. It was not suitable for him to move tonight, so he had to give up and groped his way back to the room.

With the help of the firelight, Wang Wei began to check her exposed skin, and found no signs of burns. Then, she looked at her feet, and saw a mark on her ankle from the burns of the lamp oil, like a strange totem.

Wang Wei looked at it carefully and touched it lightly with his finger. He found that the origin on the mark seemed to flicker for a moment and then returned to normal. An idea suddenly popped up in Wang Wei's mind.

——That flashing thing, could it be an eye?

The marks left by the brand cannot be removed for the time being.

Wang Wei always felt that she had smelled that scent somewhere before. It seemed that she had smelled it in heaven. When she was looking for the way to the outer world, she was attracted by a strange fragrance for a moment. When she was about to find the source of the fragrance, she was interrupted by Jun Zhao. Since then, she has never smelled this scent again.

But she didn't expect that she would find it again in this secret realm.

Could it be that this secret realm has some connection with the realm beyond the heavens?

Thinking in her mind, she looked down at Huo Feng sleeping peacefully, and couldn't help but sigh - young man, sleep is good.

Then she lay down as well. She felt that the longer she stayed in this place, the more her head felt like it was filled with lead. She felt dizzy and numb, and she always felt like she had missed something.

In her hazy consciousness, she remembered that when she went out just now, there was something strange in "grandmother's" room, and the door seemed to be ajar... She wanted to get up and take a look, but her body was stiff and she couldn't move. Then she fell asleep without much struggle.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already bright outside.

Huo Feng and she woke up almost at the same time. They looked at each other and were both alert to the coma-like sleeping behavior.

Wang Wei leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Find a way to go out and have a look at night."

Huo Feng nodded, and suddenly hugged her. Wang Wei's pupils shrank slightly, and she saw the person behind her reflected in Huo Feng's eyes.

"It's better for the young couple to love each other more. Grandma is really happy for you."

She didn't even notice the old man's footsteps, and this alone made her break out in a cold sweat.

"Grandma, you're up." Wang Wei broke free from Huo Feng's arms, turned around and put on a smiling expression.

"The meal is ready, come and eat." Grandma Li called them.

"Grandma, we want to go out for a walk today. We haven't been anywhere since we got home."

"Today, the weather is bad. You should stay at home. Don't all your friends live at home? There's no need to go out."

"But I just looked out the window—"

Suddenly there was a loud "boom" outside the house, followed by loud thunder and flashes of lightning. In an instant, heavy rain fell. The rain was dark green, and fog rose from the ground. In a blink of an eye, it was impossible to see clearly outside.

Wang Wei: “…”

It was clearly a sunny day just now.

After everyone had finished their meal, Wang Wei and Huo Feng brought food to visit Le Zhi. She had not yet woken up from her coma, and Jian Sui had been taking care of her.

Wang Wei pushed the meal to Jian Sui and checked Le Zhi's pulse. The pulse was stable and there seemed to be nothing abnormal. The reason why he didn't wake up must be because of the strangeness of this place.

Wang Wei suddenly said: "I always feel that everything here is fake."

Jian Sui: "What do you mean?"

Wang Wei was about to express his thoughts when he was interrupted by the sound of an argument gradually approaching outside.

"What does your brother's disappearance have to do with me? It wasn't me who did it!" It was Nuku's voice. The next moment, the door curtain was lifted, and Nuku and Xue Ji walked in.

Xue Ji insisted: "My brother's accident is probably related to you. We are enemies. Why do you need to ask what the relationship is?"

"Please use your brain!" Nv Kui put her hands on her hips and panted angrily, "I didn't have time to kill your brother last night. I, I went to the river to wash clothes."

"You're doing laundry late at night, are you kidding me? Tell me! Did you use this as an excuse to go out and do something to my brother?"

Xue Ji was about to take action, but was stopped by Jian Sui, "Calm down, isn't it chaotic enough? Not long after entering this secret realm, two people are gone, and my sister is still in a coma. We can't let more people get into trouble. Xue Ji, tell us everything about your brother, maybe we can find out where he is."

Xue Ji recounted everything that had happened to the two brothers since they entered the Wu family. As they were talking, Nukui started to mock them, and the two of them started to quarrel. Wang Wei saw that both he and Nukui were covered in dark green rain, and then he saw them quarreling at the top of their lungs, and he felt that there might be some connection between the two. Seeing that everyone was arguing, Huo Feng also joined the ranks of those trying to mediate.

Wang Wei slapped the table, and the tea set on the table bounced up, and everyone fell silent.

"Did everyone hold an umbrella when they went out just now?" Wang Wei interrupted.

"Hold an umbrella? There are no umbrellas here. Besides, I came here when the rain was light, so the drizzle won't be a problem." Xue Ji replied.

Nvku realized that this question might be related to something, so she spoke out: "Yesterday you told me not to hang the clothes out to dry, but I didn't listen, and the clothes got wet by the rain. The rain here has a strange smell and feels very dirty. I found that I was drenched in the rain, so I went to the river to wash my clothes and take a bath at night. I didn't have time to do anything to your brother, and isn't he also a master? Are you so unconfident that your brother won't beat me?"

Xue Ji was about to lose his temper again, but Huo Feng pushed him down onto the bench.

"Think again, are there any other details? The kind that can be easily overlooked."

Xue Ji thought about it carefully and said, "My brother said he wanted to eat chicken before we went to bed yesterday. He wanted to eat chicken very much. Although I was very greedy at the time, I thought it would be too troublesome to eat it in the middle of the night, so I gave up. I fell asleep, and when I opened my eyes again, my brother was gone. I also asked the owner of the house, Wu Ze, and he said he didn't see him."

"That's it?" Wang Wei frowned.

"...That Wu Ze was checking and counting the chickens in the chicken pen, and he seemed to be muttering... not a single one was missing." Xue Ji scratched his head and recalled, then he seemed to suddenly realize, "Was he lying to me? Could it be... that my brother stole his chickens in the middle of the night, and he killed my brother in revenge?"

Wang Wei said calmly: "That's possible, but it's also possible that he said that on purpose just to deceive you. So, calm down first."

The woman added: "How could it be me? Even if I had a motive to kill, I didn't have the time last night."

"Motive for murder?" Xue Ji was very good at grasping the key points at this time. With these four words, the two began an endless argument again. The other three sighed and ignored them.

I don't know when the rain outside stopped, and there was no more messy sound falling from the sky, but the noisy quarreling sounds kept lingering in my ears.

Rainy days are the most depressing. After coming here, I think less.

Wang Wei always felt something was wrong. She was eager to know how to get out of here. The voice from the bottom of her heart also reminded her that she was not from this world and she had to leave as soon as possible to find the artifact.

Divine weapon? She almost forgot her original purpose!

Sticky dark green rain, a strange yet familiar smell, totems resembling eye pupils, offerings of prayer... She felt that her past memories were being abandoned, and new memories were covering everything in the past at a terrifying speed.

Everyone stayed in farmers' homes, worked in the fields, did housework, ate, slept... the cycle repeated over and over again. Except for the disappearance of one Xue Bo, there seemed to be almost no change.

Five days passed without any breakthroughs. The three-day appointment was postponed again and again, and some people became tired and even thought that living here was not so bad.

Everyone was drowsy, like a walking corpse.

On this day, the setting sun was as red as blood and spread across the sky.

Wang Wei and Huo Feng were watering the vegetable garden in the yard, and Fairy Yunqiao was outside the yard calling Wang Wei to go out. At this time, Grandma Li was embroidering in the room. Wang Wei looked at her and asked Huo Feng to stay and keep an eye on the wind, and he walked out of the yard quietly.

"I have a clue here!" Fairy Yunqiao was overjoyed.

"What?" Wang Wei asked indifferently.

Fairy Yunqiao looked around and quietly took out a piece of cloth from her bosom. There were some red words written in blood on it.

"The land and water nurture the people. You eat the land and water and become a local."

"Where did the stuff come from? What does it mean?"

"I found it among the gravel on the riverbank when I went to fetch water." Fairy Yunqiao replied, "Among all the people here, Minghao and I think you are the most trustworthy, so after we analyzed it ourselves, I came to find you. We think what this sentence means is that you can't eat the food here. The more and longer you eat, the more you will integrate into this place and become a member of this place."

When he heard the word "trust", Wang Wei sneered.

"How do you explain that there are only five households here? It doesn't seem like there are any adventurers who have entered the secret realm among these five households, so where did the adventurers who merged into the secret realm go in the end?" Wang Wei continued to ask the question.

Fairy Yunqiao shook her head and then added, "On my first day in the village, a lady told me that the land here would eat people. Does that mean that if you eat something that belongs to this land, you will be stuck here forever?"

Huo Feng, from a distance, sent a signal to Wang Wei using a simple scarecrow he had just made.

"Let me think about it." Wang Wei said the last sentence and left the corner.

After a while, Fairy Yunqiao returned to her residence through the small path. Although the hunter she met on the first day was very troublesome, she and Minghao worked hard and helped to set up the mechanism, and finally managed to keep him.

Now it seems that this place is a cage and no place is safe.