A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

Fang Shiqing dragged Zeng Xin all the way into the library, found Xiao Fengdi, and quickly poured out the content of the conversation just now to him.

Zeng Xin's face was blank, and he didn't know what Fang Shiqing was anxious about, so he could only nod in agreement when he asked——

"Well, I didn't hear that there was overnight construction over there? It was very quiet at night. At least I didn't hear anything, and the mayor and his wife slept well."

After figuring out what they were talking about, Xiao Fengdi immediately frowned, looking very dignified.

"I see," he said after a moment, "I'll check later."

"Verify? How to verify?"

Xiao Fengdi didn't mean to explain at all, but just thanked them for their reminder.

People don't want to say it, so Fang Shiqing is naturally helpless.He had already told her, and seeing that the other party had nothing more to say, he had no choice but to say goodbye and leave.

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Zeng Xin was in a daze the whole time.She didn't dare to speak out in front of Xiao Fengdi, and immediately dragged him to ask him here and there after leaving the door, asking Fang Shiqing everything he knew before giving up.

"It turns out that Brother Xiao couldn't sleep well because of the noise of the construction at night?" She was quite incredulous, "But no one stays up late at night to work? Could it be... the construction at night is not a living person, is it?"

When she said this, she shuddered in fright, "Probably not..."

"I don't know," Fang Shiqing was very worried, "It's strange, it doesn't matter whether it's a human or a ghost who is constructing in the middle of the night, since the sound is made, everyone around should be able to hear it. But why can't you hear it, boss But he can hear it? Could it be that this voice can only be heard by certain people?"

"Why don't we ask other residents around to see if they can hear the sound of construction in the middle of the night." Zeng Xin thought for a while and suggested.

Fang Shiqing thought so too.Although the boss said that he would investigate, but since they already knew about it, they couldn't just act as shopkeepers, they had to find a way to collect some information.

The houses of this generation are sparse, and most of them live in old people's houses. There are not many people sitting at the door to cool off in the afternoon.They walked along the road, and whenever they saw a kind-faced NPC, they went up to ask about the situation, and the answers they got were surprisingly consistent.

"The noise of this construction is too loud," the aunt in front of me complained repeatedly, "it's so noisy that I can't sleep at night. I asked my daughter to buy earplugs for me, and it got better after that. Alas, earplugs are really a good thing. Before The old sisters recommended it to me, but I didn't take it seriously. When I felt that I couldn't be useful, you didn't know that this area of ​​ours was originally the quietest area in the whole town, and there were no dogs... "

"That means you can hear the construction noise at night, right?"

"Isn't it natural? It's so loud every night that the deaf can be woken up." The aunt looked up at them and said in surprise, "Oh, what's wrong with this girl? Her face is so bad, she's not feeling well? Hurry up." Come and sit down, and I'll get you some water."

"No, don't bother," Zeng Xin forced a smile, "I'm fine, thank you."

After asking several people in succession, they all said the same thing, and the frightened look on Zeng Xin's face could no longer be hidden.

"How could this be?" Her face was pale, and her hands were tightly twisted together. "Except for me, everyone can hear the voices in the night, that is to say, the one who is abnormal is... me?"

This discrepancy between self-knowledge and the public can easily cause self-doubt.

Zeng Xin was timid at first, but when she encountered this unexplainable supernatural phenomenon, she immediately became at a loss.

"No, don't worry," Fang Shiqing hurriedly comforted her, "Don't you think that the mayor and his wife who live under the same roof as you also didn't respond? Since they haven't been disturbed, they may be living in the mayor's house. You just can't hear the sound?"

"The mayor... By the way, the mayor!" Zeng Xin raised his head suddenly, "I'm going to ask him directly to find out if he ordered people to work at night. Just ask!"

After she finished speaking, she ran away. Fang Shiqing was stunned for a moment before realizing it. He quickly chased after her, crossed the street behind her, and ran into the construction site.

This girl was still wearing high heels today, and her feet made a crisp sound when she ran, but her speed was so fast that Fang Shiqing couldn't even catch up.I have to say that her physical fitness is really good.

The construction site was chaotic, with sand, cement and various materials piled up everywhere, and more than a dozen workers were busy walking around.

Fang Shiqing was dizzy for a moment, and wandered around for a while before seeing Zeng Xin again.At this time, she was standing by the partition, and she had already found the mayor, and she was pulling him and asking him something.

He ran over just in time to hear the mayor clear his throat.

"Cough..." The mayor's expression was unnatural, "Well, Xiao Zeng, I didn't tell you because I saw that you have been running too hard these days. I really feel that the progress is a bit slow. Slow down, sometimes they are urged to work more at night. You don't have to worry about this matter."

"How is this possible?" Zeng Xin said anxiously, "You can see the construction site from the back window of your house, but at night, I have never seen lights on here, and I have never seen anyone moving around. !"

"Hey, maybe you read it wrong, or when you looked outside, the construction site hadn't had time to start working."

"But I didn't even hear the sound!" Zeng Xin was about to cry, "There will definitely be sounds during the construction, please don't lie to me, what's going on? Is anyone doing construction, or Say, is it me who has the problem? Is it because I was entangled by some ghost that caused hallucinations in front of me—"

When she said the word "ghost", the mayor's expression changed immediately.

That change is weird.His whole face showed a strange and dull look, not like an ordinary expressionless face, but rather like a sudden necrosis of facial nerves.

He opened his mouth, and his voice was equally stiff: "Nothing like that. You think too much."

Zeng Xin was startled and stared at him blankly.

"That's enough, stop asking." The mayor said again.

——The person who was still lively just now suddenly changed into this appearance, this scene is really quite strange.

Fang Shiqing sensed something was wrong, and quickly stepped forward to pull Zeng Xin away.

"I'm sorry, Mayor Li, we still have something to do, let's go away first..."

The mayor's expression suddenly returned to normal.He looked at Fang Shiqing and said with a smile: "Isn't this Xiao Fang, why did you come into the construction site?"

"Lost, I'm just lost." Fang Shiqing responded, dragging Zeng Xin along and running away.

It wasn't until he pulled Zeng Xin outside the fence of the construction site that belated cold sweat trickled down his forehead.

Zeng Xin was really frightened, and it took her a long time to say intermittently: "Just now, that was... what happened? Is it my illusion?"

— Absolutely not.

The mayor at that moment just now is far from the gentle and amiable little old man he usually is.

"In the end..."

Zeng Xin hugged her shoulders, trembling slightly.She usually has a lot of contact with the mayor, so the scene just now had a very serious impact on her, it was like seeing someone she was familiar with suddenly being pierced by the soul.

Facing his frightened teammates, Fang Shiqing miraculously calmed down, and said softly, "Don't be afraid. After all, he is just an NPC. His behavior must be controlled by the game system, and there must be his own logic behind it. There is nothing to be afraid of." of."

Mentality can influence each other. Zeng Xin took a few deep breaths to calm himself down: "But why did the mayor become like that just now? This matter... about the construction at night, can't you ask?"

Fang Shiqing's mind was spinning rapidly, he felt that his mind was unprecedentedly clear, he connected the previous details together at once, and he already had a hypothesis about this question in his heart.

Seeing a familiar NPC old aunt walking by not far away, he asked Zeng Xin to wait in place first, and then stepped forward to stop her.

"Auntie, excuse me, I want to ask you something," he observed the NPC's expression carefully, "I heard rumors that there are ghosts around here, do you know the specific situation?"

"—"

The NPC looked up.When he said "haunted", her expression suddenly became extremely cold, exactly the same as the previous mayor's appearance.

"There is no such thing," she said, "There has never been such a thing in Fengyue Town."

Zeng Xin, who was watching from a distance, almost screamed.

Fang Shiqing wasn't very afraid, on the contrary, he had confidence in his heart.

"It seems that all NPCs have the setting of 'never mention supernatural events'," he went back and explained to Zeng Xin, "The boss told me before that there are no books about supernatural phenomena in the library— —I think it seems that the game system is intentionally separating Fengyue Town during the day from the supernatural phenomenon.”

As for why the game system is set this way, no one knows.

"A game... By the way, this is a game," Zeng Xin murmured, "I sometimes forget that we are actually in a game. The mayor and everyone in the town seem to be too Looks like a human..."

She bit her lip hard, although the previous fear receded a little, but there was a different kind of pain.

Fang Shiqing was speechless for a moment.

Those are just NPCs; no matter how lively they are on weekdays, they are just NPCs.

Zeng Xin sighed, fiddled with the stones on the ground with the toe of her shoe, and said after a while, "I...it's almost time, I have to go back to work."

"Ah?" Fang Shiqing was taken aback, "Are you... all right?"

She was frightened by NPC Mayor Li just now, but now she is going back to face him immediately, can she accept it?

"No problem," the girl nodded firmly, "No matter what happens, work is still to be done! If you don't work, you won't have income, and if you don't have income, you can't leave the game!"

"..." She was really sober.

Fang Shiqing realized that he didn't need to worry about others at all. The girl's mentality in dealing with things was much better than his, and it was worth learning.

After separating from Zeng Xin, he went back to the library again, trying to tell Xiao Fengdi about their new discovery, but found that Xiao Fengdi was not there.

The whole library was empty, only a small flower plate was dozing on the table, and the boss went to nowhere.

Fang Shiqing had no choice but to leave and return to Qingliang Farm.

After he went back, he kept thinking about this matter, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was something wrong; the attitude of the mayor when he talked to Zeng Xin was obviously hiding something.

In his opinion, the mayor probably didn't let the workers rush to work at night at all, but deliberately lied in order to conceal something.

If you put it that way, the people who are active there every night... are they really not human?

But no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't find a way to collect evidence, so he could only do it in a hurry.

I don't know what kind of method the boss will use when he said to "check it out"... Did he go to other places to check the information?or……

As he busied himself continuing to clear the farm, he kept thinking wildly.

After more than a week of hard work in the past, he has almost tidied up the huge farm.Except for a few diehards, he knocked out the rest of the stones, and cut down the trees seven, seven, eight, eight.

He put all the available wood in the wood pile next to the hut, and the stone can only be temporarily piled up in the corner of the farm.These things may be useful in the future.

At the end of the day's work, he drove all the hens back to the henhouse, and added grain to Xiao Hei's plate.Since he discovered that Xiao Hei can keep the chicken coop safe, he built a nest for it with straw. Although it is not very strong, it is still quite warm.

Seeing the sunset, he quickly hid back in his cabin.

When the sun completely disappeared below the horizon, the screams of zombies came from outside one after another.

Under the night, turquoise zombies broke out of the ground one after another, wandering around the border of the pasture, bending down from time to time, clumsily and roughly digging the half-buried tree roots.

The hut is still surrounded by a circle of soft white light, blocking the approach of zombies and bringing an unparalleled sense of security.Occasionally, when one or two lifeless zombies approached, they would be bounced away by the halo, unable to invade the interior for half a step.

Fang Shiqing looked out through the window.

Now that there are no messy shelters, the movements of those zombies can be seen clearly from a distance. Seeing them digging around looking for plant roots to eat, Fang Shiqing suddenly had an idea: if they can be treated in a special way If it is guided, maybe it can be used to clean the ground when the season changes.

Let them eat the dead plants of the previous season directly, and they can also help turn the soil by the way, which is a win-win situation.

But Fang Shiqing didn't have the ability to drive zombies, it was just a whimsical idea.

Speaking of driving ghosts to work—

He suddenly thought of the construction site at night on the east side of the town.

If the people working there in the middle of the night are really not human, then, could it be...someone is instructing some non-human creature to do the work?

Although this is just a hypothesis of his brain opening...

He was a little distracted.

At this moment, something seemed to be scratched in front of him.He reacted with a shock, immediately turned on the light in the room, and looked at the glass again.

——A drop of blood was slowly rolling down from the top of the glass, dragging out a long bloodstain.