A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

"Sinking? What do you mean?"

The little girl's eyes were in a trance for a moment, and then regained her clarity. She raised her head and looked at everyone suspiciously: "What?"

She seemed to have no memory of what she had just said.However, at the same time, her father's face changed drastically.

Fang Shiqing wanted to ask again, but her father suddenly stood up and shouted, "Stop talking!"

"……Hey?"

The father hastily ordered the little girl to go back into the house, then turned around to block everyone's questions, and said with a sullen face, "Don't ask any more questions, you can't ask."

"Do you know something? Please, just tell us, our friend is missing, and now we are looking for him, everyone is in a hurry..."

"Don't look for it," said the little girl's father directly, "it's impossible to find him. He's sunk in the lake."

"lake?"

...It really is a lake.It seems that this incident has something to do with the water ghosts in the lake.

"Why do you say that? What the hell do you know?"

"Don't ask, there is nothing to say! ... This is the rule of the lake, your friend, he was picked by the lake, that's it."

"..."

The puppet suddenly turned its head and ran out, very fast, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.No one else has much interest in chasing her, because her destination is obviously only one——

On the boundary of Fengyue Town, if you want to talk about lakes, of course it is Fengyue Lake.

No more questions could be asked from the girl's father, so the players had to leave the house and continue to discuss while walking back.

"What does Shenhu mean? You said he was picked by the lake..." Zhao Jun became more irritable, "Could it be that he was swallowed by Fengyue Lake and drowned?"

"No, since the copy was triggered, he might still be alive... I think the NPC's statement may be some hint."

You Qingyu thought about it and said, "First, the dungeon this time must be related to that lake. Second, since the NPC used the term 'sinking', maybe the entrance is at the bottom of the lake."

Fang Shiqing felt very bad.He felt that You Qingyu was right, but doesn't it mean... this time the players have to go underwater to enter the instance?

"...No way. Then what will the boss of the dungeon be this time, the Fengyue Lake Monster?" He Xiangwu couldn't help complaining.

"Uh, it should be a water ghost." Fang Shiqing whispered.

"Water ghost?"

Just at this time, the players returned to the square.Xiao Fengdi stopped, and said: "Anyway, that's how things are. The dungeon has already started, and we have to find the entrance as soon as possible. Now we're starting to make preparations for the script. We'll gather here at 3 p.m., no one has any objections."

After speaking, he turned around and headed north, seemingly going back to the library.

Fang Shiqing wanted to follow, but He Xiangwu quickly grabbed him: "Wait a minute, Brother Fang, what's the matter with the water ghost? Before you leave, please explain clearly."

"..." Seeing this, Xiao Fengdi said, "You should also make preparations, and come to me after you finish your work. I'll go back and look up some information first."

"Well, that's fine."

This should indeed be done, after all, other players still don't know anything about the situation of "Water Ghost".

After Xiao Fengdi left, Fang Shiqing briefly introduced his previous experience, including how he and Xiao Fengdi rescued Yu Fei's sister by coincidence, and the fish tank containing koi.

"I didn't expect such a terrifying monster to hide in the lake we pass by every day. There are dangers everywhere in this world." Zhao Jun sighed and looked up at the bulletin board not far away, "I thought, If it goes well, we can get it done without triggering the next one."

"How is it possible, there is still a difference of five or six million. ... However, I hope it can be done as soon as possible ..."

The players looked at the numbers on the mission bar together.

There are many good things in the game, after all, it is still a dangerous place; only when the dungeon comes, the sense of crisis will break the usual sense of daily life, and remind people of the benefits of a peaceful reality.

After a while, the players dispersed. Those who didn't eat went to eat, and those who should ask for leave?

When Fang Shiqing was about to leave, You Qingyu stopped him.

"Shiqing, that..." She tried her best to organize her words, "Well, I don't know if you can understand that, you, are you a little too dependent on Brother Xiao?"

"what??"

"No, no, of course I don't want to interfere, uh, I don't have the position to point fingers... But, ah, let me just say it directly!" She gave up on herself, "When brother Xiao was planning to leave just now, you just said it without even thinking about it." Are you going to follow him? He was halfway through the conversation, and he didn't bother to explain it clearly to us."

"Oh," Fang Shiqing rubbed the back of his head, and said in shame, "That's true, I'm sorry."

"It's not a question of sorry, that... Of course it's great that you can be together, but we are still in the game, the most important thing is to save enough money to pass the level, do you understand what I mean?"

"...Hmm. I'll keep an eye out."

Fang Shiqing smiled bitterly.She said it very euphemistically, but to sum it up, she was actually asking "Are you too in love with your brain?"

She was right, but...

Fang Shiqing went to the grocery store to buy what he needed with a heavy heart. He bought double copies of medicines and props, and then took them to the library.

Xiao Fengdi was sitting in the reading room with a thick stack of Zhenzhi beside him. When Fang Shiqing came in, he called him over and took a few copies for him to read.

"There is no content about strange powers and gods in the library, so I looked for information about Fengyue Lake."

The town annals of Fengyue Township are well preserved, nearly 200 years old, and were even written in traditional Chinese characters a few decades ago.

According to these data, it can be seen that nearly 100 years ago (corresponding to the period of the Republic of China in reality - of course, there is no specific country in the game), Fengyue Lake was still the private property of a large local family, and fishermen had to pay rent to fish in the water.

At that time, the big family lived on the opposite side of the lake. At that time, the area of ​​the lake was smaller than it is now, and the closest distance between the two sides can be passed by building a wooden bridge.

However, with the passage of time, the big households gradually declined, until finally they disappeared completely.In contrast, the area of ​​Fengyue Lake became larger and larger... And then there was the story of a certain industrialist who built a factory across the lake.

Fang Shiqing looked over one by one, feeling a little unclear, so: "Boss, do you think these will be related to our dungeon this time?"

"I don't know. However, since this time is related to the lake, I think it is necessary to investigate the former owner of the lake."

It's a pity that, apart from Zhen Zhi, there are no such long-term records left in the entire library, let alone anything related to that big family.There is no centenarian in Fengyue Town, and there is no place to inquire about it.

"It seems that the specific situation can only be read in the dungeon..." Fang Shiqing said to himself.

"Speaking of it," Xiao Fengdi held his hand, "What's wrong with you today? It feels like you've been in a daze, are you thinking about something?"

"..." Sure enough, he could see it too.

I have nothing to hide in front of him, Fang Shiqing honestly admitted, "Boss, I'm actually a little scared... No, it's not just 'a little', I'm quite scared of this dungeon."

I can't swim at all, I have a psychological shadow on "water", and I have the experience of being almost killed by a water ghost.To this day, he still shudders when he thinks of the feeling he felt when he was drowning that day.

However, what should come will always come, and in the end they still couldn't get around the monster "Water Ghost".

Xiao Fengdi also recalled the situation at that time.He was silent for a while, and stretched out his arms to hug Fang Shiqing: "It's okay, I'm here."

"But I can't always rely on you—"

"You can," he said.

Fang Shiqing felt that this was not good, but it was undeniable that after making this promise, the panic in his heart did slowly settle down.

Anyway, it's useless to be afraid, he thought, why not face it together.

Before three o'clock in the afternoon, the players met in the square on time, and then went to Fengyue Lake together.

Today's weather is obviously quite good, but there is a lot of fog on the lake, which looks extremely unreal.On the white water surface, a looming black figure looms.

"What's that? A water monster?" Zeng Xin whispered. For some reason, she looked extremely nervous.

"No, it shouldn't be..."

As it got closer step by step, the fog dispersed, and the players finally saw clearly that it was a figure floating on the water.

——It was the puppet named Gu Pan.

Her whole body was floating on the water, and all her clothes were soaked.She seems to be trying very hard to sink, but because she is made of hollow wood, the buoyancy is very impressive, and she can't press it down.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, she raised her head suddenly and cast a look of help at the person who came.

"……Uh."

In other words, has she been competing with her own buoyancy here for several hours?

Seeing that there was no response from others, she simply stretched out her wet arms from the water, grabbed the bottom of the trousers closest to her, and shook it twice in begging.

It happened to be Zhao Jun who was caught by her. Facing the face that was exactly the same as the third dungeon doll, some shadows suddenly aroused in his heart, and he shrank back in a hurry, and said in his mouth: "You, you are Do you want to sink to see it? How about holding a stone in your arms?"

The puppet showed a look of sudden realization, and immediately reached out to the shore to fish for stones.

"Wait a minute," You Qingyu glared at Zhao Jun, stopped her and said, "Don't rush down, why don't you come and act with us? We are also going to rescue Gu Jinhong, everyone should concentrate their strength can be more effective.”

"But can she...?" Zhao Jun asked in a low voice.

What he meant was that it's not sure whether existences like dolls that are not players can enter the dungeon.

"I don't know, let's try first." You Qingyu wanted to pull the doll up, but the maid's skirt became extremely heavy after being soaked in water. In the end, Zeng Xin's help was the only success.

"Then, what shall we do next?"

"Anyway, let's see what's at the bottom of the lake first," Xiao Fengdi said.According to the previous thinking, according to the hint of "sinking", Gu Jinhong is likely to be dragged to the bottom of the lake, so the top priority is to figure out the situation below, "I'll go into the water first to see."

"You want to go down?" Fang Shiqing was slightly startled.

Not only him, but others also agree, He Xiangwu said: "Don't, brother Xiao, if you come across the entrance of the entrance as soon as you go, won't you be separated from us?"

"Probably not, it's still daytime." All previous dungeons were triggered at night, and this should be no exception.

"But I'm not afraid of [-], just in case..." Zhao Jun looked at the doll, and asked lately, "Well, Gu... Pan, can you swim?"

The puppet tilted its head to look at him.

"If you can, how about you help me go down and have a look?"