Daring! She cheated in the thriller game

"You're not going to do anything?" Li Shixi whispered to Erwin, only to see the latter frowning slightly without moving his hands.

The breeze mixed with a cold light pierced her forehead. Just as the sword was about to pierce Yu Lan, Ya Zi's movement suddenly stopped.

A smile appeared in Yu Lan's eyes, and her fingers hanging by her side fluttered. Countless silk threads flew out of her hands and pierced through Ya Zi's chest.

Red blood flowed down from the silk thread and slid down onto Yu Lan's hand. Looking at the beautiful red color, Yu Lan curled up her lips in satisfaction and looked at the people in front of the courtyard with a smile in her eyes: "Do you have anything else to do?"

This was the first time everyone saw Yu Lan smile since entering the yard. She looked very well behaved when she smiled, but with her previous actions, everyone felt an indescribable chill rising from their hearts.

"It's okay... I just happen to be a little tired, so why don't you become my new toys." Yu Lan smiled sweetly at them and her hands moved again.

Countless threads flew towards Qingluan and the others. They also came to their senses from the death of Ya Zi and quickly took out their weapons to fight. But they were no match for the woman in front of them. In a few breaths, three more corpses appeared on the ground.

Yu Lan quickly dealt with the three players, looked at the silent bodies on the ground with satisfaction, and then looked up at Li Shixi and the other man who looked worried: "What can I do for you?"

Erwin put away the thorns and said coldly, "You are not Yulan."

"I am Yu Lan." 'Yu Lan' touched her face and looked up at Erwin curiously: "Don't you think this face looks like Erwin?"

Erwin shook his head. “You can’t imitate her.”

"That's right." Yu Lan sighed regretfully, "I've been studying here for a long time, but I always feel that there's something wrong with this face. Why don't you tell me what's missing? If you tell me, I'll let you see Yu Lan."

Erwin frowned, neither agreeing nor refusing.

What's missing? Admittedly, the 'Yu Lan' in front of him looked exactly like Yu Lan, and it was impossible to tell the difference between the two just by looking at their appearance, but his intuition told him that the woman in front of him was not Yu Lan, but just a puppet with an empty appearance.

Puppet? Li Shixi was stunned. He suddenly remembered something and said in surprise: "Are you Yanshi Xinniang?"

This time it was Yu Lan who was stunned. She looked at Li Shixi in surprise, then smiled and said, "I haven't heard anyone call me that in a long time."

Xin Niang's smile this time was different from the previous one. This time she was happy from the bottom of her heart. She said to Li Shixi, who had said her former title, in a friendly manner: "It's not proper to stand here and talk. You two, follow me."

Xin Niang led the two men across the corpses in the courtyard and took them to the guest room next door. She once again asked the question she had been asking: "What are you two doing here?"

After saying that, she patted her forehead and said, "Oh, look at my memory... You two are outsiders, right? Why are you here?"

After Li Shixi revealed her identity, Xin Niang no longer played Yu Lan. Although she still wore her face, her every frown and smile was full of indescribable charm. Erwin felt a little weird, so he lowered his head and didn't look at her.

Li Shixi already knew that Erwin didn't like to talk. The two of them could walk together forever without speaking, so he was the one who spoke at this time: "We...seem to have offended the owner of this place. He sent us to the depths of the illusion. We fought our way here until we met you. Xinniang, this isn't an illusion, right? How do we leave here?"

"No wonder." Xin Niang murmured, explaining to Li Shixi: "This is an illusion, but it's not an illusion. It's easy for you to get out, but I'm afraid it's not now."

"Why?" Li Shixi asked puzzledly.

"Because she hasn't woken up yet." Xin Niang spoke slowly with a trace of sadness between her brows.

It turned out that this place was called the Forest of Heart-Searching. It was the place where she was imprisoned in the past. Now it has become the place where the Yu family imprisoned their disciples. It is also the place for confused disciples to see clearly their inner selves.

Yanshi Xinniang, a name that once made a sensation, was a reflection of her past years of youth and recklessness. However, due to her stubbornness, she committed mistakes and continued to do evil in the world after her death. She was then locked up in the Forest of Inquiry by the children of the Yu family.

In the first few years, she still felt that she was not wrong. But as time went on, she began to feel that her previous obstinacy was a joke, but she still could not leave the Forest of Conscience.

Life in the mountains was too lonely, so she started to go back to her old ways and made a lot of puppets to keep her company. Later, the then head of the Yu family and the guest elder came to chat with her. They were very happy to learn that she had let go of the past, but they felt a little guilty when they saw the puppets she made to keep her company, so the three of them made a decision.

"The elders have set up an illusion array here, and with the help of my puppets, this place has become a place for the disciples of the Yu family to reflect on their mistakes."

In fact, the original words of the Patriarch of the Yu Family were: "It's boring, how about I send a few people over to play with you? You don't have to do anything, just put a puppet next to them to monitor him. If you think he won't change his bad behavior, then use the puppet to scare them!"

"This way, you get to have fun, and my disciples also suffer, killing two birds with one stone!"

Xin Niang thought the patriarch's suggestion was good, so the three of them decided to write some specious notices and diaries and put them in the hut in the forest to scare the disciples who had made mistakes. Then they used puppets made by Xin Niang to disguise themselves as giant beasts. If they found that the disciples had no intention of repenting, they would release the giant beasts to scare them.

The frightened disciples had no time to think about whether this was true or not. If they sincerely tried to mend their ways, Xin Niang would put a boat on the edge of Wenxin Lake to let them leave when she felt that it was about time. If they wanted to escape early, she would control the puppets in the water to bring them back.

You know what, it’s quite fun.

Xin Niang said with some emotion: "What a pity, recently the Yu family has lost population or has learned its lesson. Fewer people make mistakes, and no one comes to my place. It's so boring..."

Xin Niang didn't know that what she said seemed to explode the two people who were listening like a giant bomb. She came to her senses and looked at the two people opposite her: "What's wrong with you?"

Li Shixi's face was red and white, and he looked ahead with lifeless eyes. Although Erwin couldn't see his face clearly because of the hood, Xin Niang could feel that his body was very stiff, as if she had said something very important.

She couldn't help but touch her face in confusion. Was it because Li Shixi was frightened by what he had done? Or did he think that the monster they had been on guard against was actually a scam, and then he was stunned in anger?

After a long time, Li Shixi said with difficulty: "Xin Niang, which Yu family are you talking about?"

"Lush and green, the Yu in Anzhi Tinglan." Xin Niang asked doubtfully, "You are a child of the Li family, right? Haven't you heard of the Yu family? Has the Yu family declined?"

Li Shixi paused for a moment, he almost forgot that he was dead. The Li family, like the Yu family, was a family of Xuanmen. How could he not have heard of the Yu family?

No matter how reclusive the Yu family was in the past, with the emergence of a figure like Yu Lan, can her family still be considered in decline?

Wait, Li Shixi was stunned again: "How do you know I'm from the Li family?"

"Then how do you know I'm Yanshi Xinniang's?" Xinniang covered her mouth and smiled: "We are also a family, how could you not know."

The Li family is a family of formations, but a hundred years ago, there was a Li Xin who was very good at making puppets. Although she did something wrong and was expelled from the Li family, her glorious deeds before that were not erased. Instead, they were mentioned from time to time by the people in the Xuanmen as a warning - the strong do not fall in love.

Many books mention puppets and Yanshi Xinniang. Her skills are so lifelike that they are amazing. Li Shixi learned about Xinniang from the books. It was mentioned in the books that Xinniang was from the Li family, so he had some impression of her.

But Xin Niang's situation was even simpler. She could feel that there was a very shallow blood connection between her and Li Shixi, so she guessed it immediately.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Shixi was related to her by blood, if someone else had said her name, she would have just given that person a quick death and would never have asked him to sit down and chat with her in a friendly manner.

"So..." Li Shixi swallowed his saliva: "Yu Lan is the young master of the Yu family?"

"Yes." Xin Niang replied nonchalantly, and then couldn't help but sigh: "By the way, if you want to leave, it depends on Yu Lan's wishes, but she can't leave now."

Li Shixi came back to his senses from the huge shock: "Why, isn't this her home?"

"This is not a question of home." Xin Niang said resentfully, "I don't know where the young lady got her inner demons from. The elders sent her here just to help her overcome her inner demons. This should be a simple matter for her, but after so long, she has not made any progress and even loses her mind from time to time."

"Although I am here to help my disciples wake up, I cannot bear to watch them die. Just when I was about to send her out, she sealed herself away."

"Seal?" At this time, Erwin spoke: "Where is she now? How is she?"

Xin Niang heard the concern in Erwin's words and looked at him steadily. After a while, she said, "I am not sure what the young lady did to herself. She left her soul and hid her body. Her soul hides from time to time. Sometimes it gets into my puppet, sometimes it possesses a tree, and sometimes it sits at the table, looking out the window and crying."

"The weird thing is, she seems to have zero perception of the outside world, yet she's very sensitive."

Zero perception but very sensitive, what does this mean? Erwin looked at Li Shixi in confusion. Li Shixi's body was slightly stiff. He looked at him and did not know what was going on.

"Anyway, you'll know when you see it." Xin Niang clapped her hands, and a blue bird flew from the window to her shoulder. Xin Niang listened for a while and said, "She's outside now."

Hearing this, Erwin immediately stood up.

When I opened the door, I saw a tall dead tree. I didn't know what kind of tree it was. A little girl was standing under the tree, staring at the tree blankly, but her eyes were out of focus, as if she couldn't see anything.

Seeing this, Erwin couldn't help but slow down his pace: "Ms. Yu?"

The girl didn't respond, as if she didn't hear Erwin's voice. Erwin hesitated, but walked to her side.

The faint scent of flowers filled her nose, and Yu Lan's eyes lit up. She shouted happily, "Mom! The flowers are blooming!"

"Oh... that's not right, this is not the smell of Sophora japonica." Little Yulan may have realized that the tree that was in bloom was not Sophora japonica, and she was a little lost. But she quickly cheered up and turned around and threw herself into Erwin's arms: "Mom, what perfume did you spray today? It smells so good!"

Erwin: ...?

Looking at Erwin's stiff back, Xin Niang covered her mouth to hold back her laughter, while Li Shixi was already laughing so hard that he couldn't breathe.

Little Yulan hugged Erwin's legs and tilted her head in confusion: "Mom, why don't you hug me?"

“Oh my god, hahahahahahahaha.” Li Shixi laughed even louder, and shouted, “Mom, why don’t you hug her?”

"Stop it!" Erwin's face flushed, but he still picked up little Yulan. Feeling that she was being held by her "mother", Yulan stopped moving again, sitting in Erwin's arms like a puppet, motionless.

Erwin looked at Xin Niang helplessly: "Xin Niang, what's going on?"

Xin Niang cleared her throat and stopped laughing: "The tree in the courtyard is a locust tree. In the past, the elders often brought the young lady and her mother to play here. Maybe her current state remains in the day when she had the memory of the locust tree. It will be fine after a while. The young lady is like this from time to time."

"The young lady has had poor health since she was young, and she loses her sight from time to time. Even after she recovered, she still suffers from night blindness." Xin Niang sighed and said, "Because of this, the elders and the young lady's mother take the young lady out to play from time to time. Although she can't see, she can smell, which makes her less bored."

"Was she often like this when she was a child?" Li Shixi frowned, with a hint of seriousness on his face. He had never heard anyone mention that Yu Lan was in poor health. What he heard most was how talented she was and how much better she was compared to her peers.

"Yes." Xin Niang sighed leisurely, took Yu Lan from Erwin's arms, and carefully combed her hair: "Child of the Li family, you are the same age as the young lady, you should have heard a lot about her, right?"

Li Shixi's face darkened slightly. He remembered the cause of his own death and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Yes, no more, no less."

"Don't look at the young lady like this. In fact, she is not always so strong." Xin Niang said. She could see that the two people in front of her had a special relationship with Yu Lan, so she opened her mouth and said some things that only the Yu family knew.