A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

When the little ghosts were touched by a large stone, they immediately turned into black smoke and sewage and disappeared.Two people fell down at the same time, and fell on the gravel on the ground in a state of embarrassment.

"—Zeng Xin?"

The ones who fell seemed to be Zeng Xin and You Qingyu. Fang Shiqing ran over and just happened to see Zeng Xin gritted her teeth and sat up.

You Qingyu was unconscious as before, and I don't know if he didn't wake up all the time.

"Are you okay?" Seeing Zeng Xin's pained face, he quickly took out the healing medicine.

"Shi Qing?——It's really Shi Qing!" She looked up and saw him, and exclaimed, "Are you okay?"

She tried to get up, but her knee twitched and she almost fell off the stone.

Fang Shiqing supported her. Although the girl was not heavy, the weight of the two of them still made him crumbling.Gu Jinhong came up to help in a timely manner and took You Qingyu over.

"Are... are you okay?" Zeng Xin asked him while covering his knees and gasping for air.

"I'm fine, well, what about the others?... Where's Brother Xiao?"

"I don't know," Zeng Xin replied with tears in his eyes, "Shi Qing, are you really okay? That moment before was really scary."

"...What happened to you?"

Zeng Xin wiped away her tears, shook her head vigorously with lingering fear, and then began to speak.

"Brother Xiao was going crazy when you were dragged down, and he jumped down immediately. Before he came back from the water, many black monsters suddenly appeared around him. I took Qingyu and ran away all the way, waiting for the reaction When I came here, I couldn't find anyone else at all, so I could only find my way, and then I suddenly stepped on the ground..."

Fang Shiqing suddenly became anxious.How is he doing now?He followed himself into the water, and then disappeared. Where is he now?

You Qingyu didn't know why he didn't wake up, even if he replenished his health, he still didn't respond, and he couldn't see any problem from the status bar.Zeng Xin's leg was injured, but it was only a flesh wound, and he was cured after taking medicine.

After standing up, she reached out and took You Qingyu back from Gu Jinhong, as if she had just noticed Gu Jinhong, stared at him in surprise for a while, and said for a long time: "Long time no see, are you... all right?"

"Of course, I'm fine." Gu Jinhong smiled indifferently.

Fang Shiqing's mind was full of Xiao Fengdi's situation, so he had to pat his face hard to wake himself up and focus more on the current difficulties.

Anyway, it's good to have more people together.He took a peach wood plank and handed it to Zeng Xin as a weapon, and then he planned to continue exploring.

Zeng Xin originally wanted to carry You Qingyu on his back, but she is not tall enough, so carrying someone is not as convenient as carrying someone.Finally Gu Jinhong said: "Let me do it."

He carried You Qingyu on his back, looking quite relaxed.Zeng Xin was a little reluctant, but he didn't say much after all.

Fang Shiqing actually wanted to climb up from the hole on the roof of the hall, he thought it would be easier to meet up with his teammates on top.However, when he tried to hang it up with a hook, he received a prompt "This operation cannot be performed!".

There was no way, a group of four could only pass through the hall and continue to move forward.

The road ahead is difficult for three people to walk side by side. After all, Gu Jinhong carried someone on his back and fell to the back, while Fang Shiqing walked in the middle.

He cautiously walked and listened to the movement around him, but for a long time, he couldn't hear anything except the faint sound of water.

The road ahead is long, and his thinking gradually became a little erratic.

Speaking of which, what happened to the play played by those black little ghosts before?The meaning expressed in the drama is quite understandable, that is, a group of people caught the water ghost and wanted to execute it, but the water ghost killed another person at the last moment.

It's a pity that the show didn't finish. If the ending is that the water ghost escapes successfully, can it survive as the person whose body it has usurped?

"I have a feeling that we've been going around in circles," Zeng Xin who was at the front stopped and asked, "This road doesn't seem to be straight."

"But there are no forks around."

Fang Shi came to his senses. What Zeng Xin said made sense. The road was curved, and it was probably a circle.

He tapped the stone next to him with a wooden plank, hearing the sound that the other side might be empty.After thinking about it, he asked the others to step back, took out the high-temperature magic device he bought earlier, stuck it on the surface of the stone, and adjusted the temperature to a level that was neither too high nor too low.

The magic device is used to burn bricks, and the temperature is quite high when it operates, and the stone wall will quickly become hot to the touch.

Then he turned and walked back.

"What are you going to do?" Gu Jinhong asked.

"I'm going to get some water."

He plans to learn from the educational cartoons he watched when he was a child, to see if he can use the basic principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction to break stones.

"Ah, I have it here." Zeng Xin reacted, and directly took out a bucket used for a water dispenser from the inventory, and filled it with water.

"...Why do you carry this thing with you?"

"After changing the water this morning, I took the old bucket in," Zeng Xin said embarrassedly, "Didn't I be locked in the tank before and couldn't get out? The whole tank was very full at the time, so I had to fill some water into it." In the item bar, there is barely a space where I can breathe."

...sounds really cruel.

Fang Shiqing took the water, waited for a while, then turned off the magic device, and poured cold water on it.

Although heat expansion and contraction are common sense in life, but not many people have the opportunity to practice this way.Fang Shiqing squatted beside him anxiously, and was relieved only when he saw the stone wall crumbling.

This layer of stone was very thin, and after cracks appeared, Zeng Xin easily made a hole in it.

The other side is also an unchanging underground passage. Just as he was about to go there, Gu Jinhong suddenly said, "Wait, she seems to be awake."

He put You Qingyu down against the wall, and it could be seen that her eyelids were trembling slightly.

"Qingyu!" Zeng Xin rushed over immediately, but tripped because the passage was too narrow.

Fang Shiqing got a little closer, and quickly squatted down to support You Qingyu, and she finally managed to open her eyes.

"...Shiqing?" she murmured.

"how do you feel?"

She didn't make a sound for a while, as if she was in a daze.A few seconds later, her eyes gradually focused, and she suddenly grabbed Fang Shiqing's sleeve and screamed, "Shiqing! I seem to have found a super critical clue!"

"what……?"

"I found this in a particularly broken coffin!" You Qingyu took out a yellowed booklet.It looks similar to other diaries, only extra broken.

Fang Shiqing took it over and found that the pages were dry and brittle, almost breaking when touched.He turned a page casually, and a line of large characters came into view:

—— "Does 'Water Ghost' really exist?"

This is not a diary, but an investigative notebook.The writer's handwriting is beautiful, and although the ink has faded, it's easy to read.

"It has been half a year since I moved to Fengyue Town. The people here are very xenophobic. I lived with them for six months before I managed to gain everyone's initial trust. Among the fishermen here, there seems to be rumors about 'water ghosts' Hidden Tales."

"I tried to ask familiar residents, but all I got was vague replies.

"But the aborigines seem to have a tacit understanding among each other. They never go to Fengyue Lake after four o'clock in the afternoon. Only adult men and women aged 40 or older are allowed to participate in fishing; it is said that this is because water ghosts will The young girls and children started and dragged them into the bottom of the water. When the missing young girls came back, they were no longer what they were; the souls of water ghosts resided in their original bodies."

"I'm curious about that."

It seems that this is an outsider who has become curious about the ecology of Fengyue Town.

The next few pages are some surveys of geographical environment and customs, nothing special.Both Zeng Xin and Gu Jinhong came over and gathered around to watch together.

The brochure also read: "The big family opposite Fengyue Lake seems to have lived in this place for more than 200 years. I heard that the ancestors were officials here, and later bought the entire lake. Residents who fish here They all have to pay fees to him. Because of this, the residents are very disgusted with the people there, and when girls who marry there go back to their natal homes, everyone will take them and ignore them."

"It's been three years since I came to Fengyue Town. Today, the head of the household greeted me mysteriously. We dived into the pool in the yard together. I didn't know until now that there is such a huge maze underground in this town.

"The head of the household took me to see a lot of coffins, many, many. At first I thought this was a water burial cemetery, but it wasn't. He told me that all the people who died here were killed by water ghosts."

"Until this time, I finally understood. In this small town, there are actually no water ghosts—"

The next few pages were blank. When Fang Shiqing turned the page, Gu Jinhong turned his head slightly, and suddenly frowned, "...what's the sound?"

"What sound..."

Before he could finish asking, the stone wall above his head exploded with a sudden bang, and a large amount of water poured down!

This was so sudden that no one had any time to avoid it.Fang Shiqing was hit straight by the torrent, and was thrown directly onto the wall on the other side. The booklet in his hand was directly shattered into pieces and melted in the water.

The crackling sound continued to sound one after another, and countless stones on the top of the head cracked one after another, and more and more water spewed out from it.The water in the entire channel immediately slowed down to the knees, and if it hadn't been for a hole in the side wall, it would have been higher.

The back of Fang Shiqing's head hit the wall hard, staring at his eyes, and he was about to be washed away by the current, Gu Jinhong grabbed him: "Are you okay?"

"It's, it's okay...how about them?"

Fang Shiqing choked on a few sips of water, coughed and looked for the two girls through the water curtain.Caught off guard, You Qingyu was also rushed to one side, and Zeng Xin was rushed to another direction, and now they are more than ten meters away from them, struggling to go to You Qingyu's side.

"The water level is still rising," Gu Jinhong said, "Hurry up and find a way to get out of here... what are you doing?"

Fang Shiqing waded against the current towards the girl.Gu Jinhong grabbed him: "What are you going to do? In this case, you can't help much."

"I know," Fang Shiqing knew very well. Although he was closer to her, his strength was not as strong as Zeng Xin's. At this time, it was better to leave it to Zeng Xin to save people.But he was inexplicably very uneasy, "But I can't wait any longer, I have to hurry over and ask clearly."

"What? What do you want to ask?"

Fang Shiqing couldn't take care of the reply, he just wanted to rush there as soon as possible.The water level is indeed rising, and it seems that it has not reached the thigh.The water above his head poured down endlessly, he wondered if the water from Fengyue Lake had been pumped here.

"Shiqing?" You Qingyu was drenched in water, she wiped the water from her face vigorously, and was startled when she saw Fang Shiqing, "You..."

She probably wanted to say, you are obviously afraid of water, why did you wade through the water.

"Let me ask you," Fang Shiqing grabbed her and shouted without thinking about anything else, "you were the one who found that booklet first. You should have read what was written in the back, right?"

You Qingyu was dumbfounded by his question: "I've read it, but..."

"Tell me, why does it say 'Actually, there are no water ghosts in this world'? What did the owner of the record find?!"

Zeng Xin came up from behind, grabbed them one by one, and dragged them towards the entrance of the cave: "Don't talk about this for now, Shi Qing, let's get out of here—"

"Tell me quickly!" Fang Shiqing grabbed You Qingyu's arm.

The bad premonition in his heart is getting stronger and stronger. It is very common to have an accident when this kind of key information is about to be revealed. In many film and television dramas, there are many detours because of such a short sentence.

"Because—" You Qingyu seemed to have thought of this, she wiped her face again, and replied quickly, "Because, when he wrote the record, there were indeed no water ghosts in Fengyue Town!

"The so-called 'water ghost' is just a code word used by the residents to allude to the big family living in the south of the lake, satirizing that family like greedy ghosts to exploit other people's property to the house on the other side of the lake... That's what happened!"