A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

Zhao Jun struggled to emerge from the water. Seeing a group of people standing outside, he was taken aback for a moment, and then shouted, "Can you give me a hand?"

He was out of breath and seemed to have been submerged in the water for a long time.

"Uh," You Qingyu asked, "What kind of job did you do before?"

"What occupation?" Zhao Jun was taken aback.

"It's what your occupation was before you entered the game."

Everyone stared at him, Zhao Jun realized something: "New media operation, what's wrong?"

"Oh, it's all right now."

Zhao Jun was carefully pulled up from the water, his cuffs and trousers were tied tightly, his jacket and shoes were all taken off and stuffed into the props, and he had been diving in the water for a long time.

"Why are you in the water?"

"Wait, tell me what happened first?" Zhao Jun was confused, "Why do you look so prepared?"

"What's under the water?" Xiao Fengdi asked straightforwardly.

Xiao Fengdi and Zhao Jun were somewhat apprehensive, and didn't dare to ask back, but answered honestly: "It's quite... quite complicated, let me start from the beginning."

As he spoke, he rejected the towel handed over by Zeng Xin next to him, "No need, I guess I'll have to go down again after I finish speaking, there's no point in drying it now."

When Zhao Jun floated up from the lake, he happened to appear in the pool at the end of the alley.At that time, he didn't notice anything wrong with the pool. He just climbed up normally and walked along the alley, but the more he looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong.

There are pools in almost every household here, and the size is basically uniform, which looks like it was built at the same time.

The stoves of rural households are often built in different sizes and styles. It makes no sense that the pools are all made almost the same.In addition, he found that some of these pools seemed to be dug quite deep, and they became wider and wider as they went down, so he couldn't help feeling even more strange.

After thinking about it, he decided to dive into the water to have a look, so he chose one at random and jumped in.

"Ah!" Zeng Xin stomped her feet and screamed, "Could it be you who passed by me! Didn't you hear me calling for help?"

"Ah?" Zhao Jun was at a loss, "I didn't see you, and I didn't hear you. Were you in the yard at that time?"

"..." Zeng Xin was about to cry again.

"You are so courageous, you dare to go into the water alone." You Qingyu complained

"I can't help it, I've already entered the dungeon anyway, so it's useless to hide blindly, right?"

"So what's down there?"

"..." When it came to the topic, Zhao Jun showed an indescribable expression.

"There is a U-shaped passageway under the pool, which leads to a large underground room...it is really big," he emphasized, "and there is no water in it, but air. Almost all pools can be connected to that. In the room, do you understand what I mean? All pools lead to one place!"

"I can understand it, but..."

But it's hard to imagine.

"And then?" Xiao Fengdi continued to ask.

"Then, there are still a lot of messes down there. It's useless to just talk about it. I think you have to go down and have a look to find out," he said, standing up. "The water in the pool is not deep, less than ten meters. Come down and try it. ? If you don’t want to go, you can just go down and have a look, I really don’t know...how to say it.”

Fang Shiqing was a little apprehensive. Zeng Xin, who just came out of the tank just now, was physically afraid of water, and her head was as big as a bucket.

But Zhao Jun has said so, it should be better to go down and have a look.After carefully confirming that Zhao Jun was not possessed, the players jumped off the pool.

Under other circumstances, it may be more appropriate to divide the troops into two groups, let some people wait in place, and let some go to observe, but this is a horror game set after all, it is better for players to concentrate as much as possible.

Fang Shiqing was still brought down by Xiao Fengdi.After entering the water, he found that the number given by Zhao Jun was exaggerated. The pool was only six or seven meters deep at most. In the waterway.

The waterway is full of similar openings, which should lead to pools in other yards.After walking forward for more than ten meters, a wider hole appeared on the side leading diagonally upward.

When he passed through the hole, he felt a viscous squeeze.This feeling is exactly the same as every time I switch scenes in the dungeon.

The next moment, they floated up from the pitch-black water.

After taking a few breaths, Fang Shiqing took out the flashlight as soon as possible and turned it on, and raised it higher to avoid getting wet.

The location where they emerged was an irregular pool about four or five meters in diameter.Except for what they brought, there is no light source around, and there is a thick layer of earth and stone above the head, about three meters away from the water surface.

A few meters away, the flashlights were also lit up one after another. Zhao Jun, who was leading the way, seemed to have landed on the shore and was still urging others to hurry up.

After a while, You Qingyu's voice sounded, with uncontrollable shock: "This is... what is it?"

"It's scary, right?" Zhao Jun said, "That's why I told you to come down and take a look."

Before Fang Shiqing had time to leave the water, he swiped the flashlight over there and stopped immediately.

As Zhao Jun said, this is a rather large space.It is only about a dozen meters wide in the north-south direction, but it is very long in the east-west direction, and you can't see the end at a glance from the left and right.

And starting not far from the pool, along the east-west wall, there are... many coffins.

Use the flashlight to shine on the other side, but you can't reach the end. There are not hundreds of coffins here, at least dozens of them.

They are neatly stacked there, roughly evenly spaced from each other, and seem eerily serious.

Fang Shiqing was stunned, and even forgot to continue to climb up the ground for a while, Xiao Fengdi supported his back before he realized it.

Players began to walk slowly along the side road to the other end of the darkness.

Take a closer look, most of these coffins are small and broken, with almost no decorative patterns on them, and they are not similar to the coffins of water ghosts seen at the bottom of the lake before.

In the beginning, no one of the players spoke. In the confined underground space, only the sound of footsteps rubbing against the ground echoed.

After briefly looking at more than 20 coffins, Xiao Fengdi broke the silence.

"You can't see anything from the outside, you have to open it and try."

"……Hey?"

Seeing that he had chosen a coffin at random and was about to open the lid, the others were almost startled and retreated instinctively.

Fang Shiqing had already guessed that he would do this - after all, the boss has always been a practical school.And it wasn't the first time to open the coffin tonight, so he didn't back away, but helped to turn on the flashlight beside him.

The coffin lid was a bit difficult to open, but Xiao Fengdi managed to pry it off.Inside lay the corpse of a skinny young man, which was very well preserved.

"This person should have died of illness." After looking at it for a while, Xiao Fengdi said, while reaching into the coffin, he carefully pulled out a booklet from the dead man's head.

"What is this?" A similar booklet was also found in the coffin where Gu Jinhong was hidden before. Fang Shiqing originally thought it was a list of funeral objects, but now this coffin obviously belongs to the poor, but it also has this, so it shouldn't be up.

"Looks like a diary."

"……what?"

Xiao Fengdi handed him the brochure, Fang Shiqing flipped through it, and found that it seemed to be true.The date and weather are marked on each page of this booklet. The writer's handwriting is not very beautiful, but the writing format is very regular.

"The weather on x month x is fine

Today's harvest was very good, and several big fish were caught.If things go on like this, there will be some left over after paying the monthly rent this month, which will be extra meals for my mother and sister. "

"The weather on x month x is fine

The monthly rent has gone up, and the extra meals are gone. "

"The weather on x month x is rainy

The monthly rent has risen again, and my mother said that if this continues, we have to throw my sister into Fengyue Lake, otherwise the three of us will not be able to afford food. "

"The weather on x month x is foggy

My stomach hurts... Mom said I had the same disease as my father.When I was sick, I couldn't stand up, couldn't go fishing, and couldn't even write. If I couldn't work, I was like a free mouth.They looked at me very strangely, am I going to be sent to the lake to be eaten? "

Fang Shiqing shivered.

After confirming that there was no problem, other people who were standing a few meters away also gathered around and tried to open more coffins to check the situation.Almost every corpse in the coffin can find a diary book next to the head. It seems that people here may have the habit of bringing diaries to bury.

"These people here... It seems that when they were alive, they didn't have a good life."

After flipping through for a while, Zeng Xin whispered.

Fang Shiqing also felt the same way.He also went through a few other diaries, whether they were from the elderly or from children, they were all full of "Although we should be able to survive relying on the output of Fengyue Lake, but now we are living very hard. Difficult to make ends meet", and the source of their inability to live is undoubtedly that - the "monthly rent" paid every month.

According to the information found before entering the dungeon, the entire Fengyue Lake is owned by the family living across the lake. The so-called "monthly rent" should be the rent paid to his family by the people who depend on Fengyue Lake for their livelihood. , just like tenants paying money to landlords in feudal times.

In other words, all the coffins placed here belonged to ordinary fishermen who unfortunately died because of this kind of oppression at that time...?

These fishermen put all the dead bodies here. Is there any purpose in it?

Players continue to move forward and find that the coffins that go forward are getting older.Some of them have no diaries, but only a few words. Judging from the time written on them, they have lasted for at least three generations. No wonder they have accumulated so much.

When he reached the end, Zhao Jun stopped, pointed to the wall on the other side and said, "By the way, look here."

Several flashlights shone at the same time, clearly reflecting the things on the wall——

a hole.

"What is this?" He Xiangwu went over curiously and touched it.

"I think it should be an ordinary hole," Zhao Jun said, "Look, it seems that you can pass through this to another room."

Fang Shiqing also went over to touch it, and felt that the surrounding of the hole was very uneven, as if it was made by some animal.

The height of this hole is around his waist, and the inside is very long, at least five meters long at a glance, and although it is a straight line, it is very narrow.But with a flashlight, the opposite side is indeed empty, as if it can lead to another space.

"Haven't you been there to see it?" He Xiangwu asked Zhao Jun.

"No, this hole is so small, I can't get through it," Zhao Jun smiled wryly, "And there are a lot of coffins behind me, so I don't dare to stay here for a long time. When I came down last time, I just looked around and went back. "

Indeed, as he said, the hole was too small.He Xiangwu gestured with his shoulders, and shook his head regretfully. A man as big and thick as him can only poke his head in at most.

"I seem to be able to." You Qingyu pushed the men away and went over to try.With the size of the two girls, both of them can climb over with relative ease.

Fang Shiqing also stepped forward to make a gesture, and unexpectedly found that he seemed to be able to do it too.

His skeleton is undoubtedly a male skeleton structure, but after all, he is neither tall nor strong, so although he is somewhat reluctant, he can still fit his upper body inside.As for the lower body, there is no need to consider it. The widest part of a normal man is the shoulders.

"Then," Zeng Xin looked at the others hesitantly, "how about... I... let me go and have a look?"