The Uncanny Valley Travel Guide

"Please sit, please sit!" The beautiful widow lit the kerosene lamp and asked them to sit down by the fireplace. Another little maid wearing a headscarf came out. Freckles, pour each of them a glass of water.

Wen Zheliu took the kettle over and said with a smile, "No need to bother."

The girl was flattered and bowed again and again. Du Zijun glanced at the water glass in his hand and handed it to the neglected Xie Yuanyuan.

Grace saw that each of them rested for a while, so she asked curiously: "Are you guys going to such a remote place, do you want to go to the monastery over there?"

"Yes," Wen Zheliu said, "Our guide also walked around for a long time before we found this place."

Grace said shyly: "Let the gentlemen laugh—madam, drink water too, dinner will be ready soon."

Du Zijun nodded, and heard her continue to say: "We used to have only one village here. Apart from the monastery, there were mountains nearby. In the first two years of the war, the old people here were afraid of being affected, so they led people to cut off the road first. "

"Dug out?" Xie Yuanyuan couldn't imagine, "How did the road get cut off?"

"Did you plant plants to cover the road after it was opened?" Wen Zheliu speculated, "When I just came here, I saw that one section of the ground was full of potholes, and there were still some roots left."

"You're so smart," Grace praised, "yes, that's how it is. The potatoes and cabbages in the village are growing well, and there are piglets and goat's milk in the monastery, so we managed to survive without incident. In the past two years, people in the surrounding villages seem to know that this place is a treasure, and most of them come here with their families. "

When she was talking, He Qin was looking at the furnishings of this small building. When he saw the photo frame on the table, he frowned suddenly.

"With the liberty to ask," he looked at the framed picture on the table, "that's you and your..."

Turning her head, the widow saw the object of his questioning, sighed, and said, "Yes, that is my deceased husband. May the Lord bless him in heaven, poor wretch, wait two more years, and the war will end." It's about to end, but he left because of a fatal typhoid fever, and it's hard to live with me..."

"What season is typhoid?" He Qin continued to ask casually, "If you suffer from typhoid in winter, it is really not easy to treat."

The widow looked sad and nodded again and again: "Yes! It is indeed a winter illness. What happened in the winter last year made everyone very sad! Instead of dying in the war, they were defeated by the disease. People often say that life is impermanent. I It's been recognized..."

She muttered with emotion to herself, not noticing the few guests who suddenly became quiet.

Wen Zheliu put down the water glass calmly, a swirling purple light flashed behind Du Zijun's waist, and then the black color of the gun barrel was revealed in the gap between the cloth and the sofa, Xie Yuanyuan showed shock, and murmured: "But, Nearly nine years have passed since the end of the war..."

Only He Qin with a proper smile, like a real priest, comforted him: "Yes, life is impermanent, and only by believing in the Lord can we obtain long-term peace of mind and happiness."

The woman's eyebrows were worried, she lowered her head, and made a sign of the cross in front of her.

At this moment, the maid came over and greeted softly, "Ma'am, dinner is ready."

Looking at the silent crowd, Grace pinned her flaming hair behind her ears, and said with a forced smile, "Please don't be too polite, I hope the simple food here won't be so neglectful..."

"No, ma'am." Wen Zheliu said ahead of her, "A sincere heart is more precious than all delicacies."

The widow's smile finally looked a little cheerful under the black turban.She invites the guests to sit down. The dinner is hot corn soup and a large plate of mashed potatoes with sauce.

Non-toxic, Wen Zheliu shook his head lightly.

Having experienced so many difficult worlds, supernatural events of this level will no longer make them feel palpitations. Du Zijun and Xie Yuanyuan on the opposite side nodded slightly, and the four scooped a spoonful of mashed potatoes under the expectant gaze of the hostess. Put it in your mouth at the same time.

But for any food that is steaming, the taste will not be so bad under the addition of temperature.The mashed potatoes are very soft and glutinous, and the sauce poured on it seems to be made of vegetables. After a careful taste, it seems that ham is added in it. The corn chowder also has a creamy sweetness. In all fairness, it is very good.But since they saw something wrong with the environment they were in, they couldn't eat it with peace of mind. They ate half of it, so they put down the tableware.

"What's the matter?" Grace asked hurriedly, "Is it not delicious?"

He Qin said with a smile: "The taste is very good, ma'am, thank you for your generosity. It's just that we have bumped all the way, and now we really don't have much appetite to eat, please forgive me."

Grace suddenly said: "Then I will arrange beds for you now..."

"You don't need to bother, ma'am." Wen Zheliu couldn't laugh or cry, and hastily rejected such troublesome enthusiasm, "We'll just rest in the living room for a while, there are still a lot of documents that need to be cleaned up at night, you don't need to worry about us. "

After finally persuading the hostess, they waited until the tableware was cleared, and they pretended to go to the end, and accompanied Grace to pray before going to bed.When all the irrelevant NPCs went upstairs, He Qin listened attentively, pasted enchantment spells around, and said, "The door is closed, let's start doing our business."

The smell of kerosene lamps was very pungent, and He Qin's lighting method was too ostentatious. Wen Zheliu took a large mountaineering flashlight and turned it on, and he could see clearly.

"You said, does she know that she is... dead?" Xie Yuanyuan asked after deliberation.

"It's not necessarily dead." Du Zijun opened the notebook, "Maybe there is a problem with the time force field here, or maybe it is affected by some force here, just like Haihe Middle School, it keeps spinning at the same time."

"It's not impossible." Wen Zheliu flipped the paper, "Perhaps, this is also one of the mysteries we need to solve."

They all opened their notebooks, with different handwriting, basically the same words were written: the consignment of the monastery is in progress, and it depends on this time whether they can get a good reward.

[Main quest ① has been updated: Find out the truth about the haunted monastery (0/1)]

Hearing the system's prompt, Xie Yuanyuan let out a sigh of relief: "It's finally here, haunted, right, okay."

"There is still the content of the entrustment below." Wen Zheliu read word by word: "Assistance entrusted items: four copies of the map, entrustment deposit: a check for three hundred dollars... a deposit of three hundred dollars? That is really quite a lot. Entrusted token: an ancient gold coin... wait, ancient gold coin? Have you seen it?"

Xie Yuanyuan said blankly: "No, how can there be gold coins?"

"Look for it," Du Zijun picked up the suitcase. "When we enter that monastery, we may have to show our token."

The four searched their bodies and boxes, and finally, Wen Zheliu found a heavy golden coin in the cracks of the box.

"I found it!" He cheered up, "Let's take a look!"

The three people approached, Wen Zheliu turned the gold coin over, and saw a long snake connected head to tail on the irregular circle, forming a pattern surrounding a pentagram.

He Qin: "..."

Wen Zheliu: "..."

Du Zijun: "..."

Xie Yuanyuan: "..."

The four were speechless, Wen Zheliu was holding it like a hot potato, neither throwing it nor taking it away.

"I'm sick," Du Zijun said in a low voice, "I've been doing this for a long time, and the entrusting party is the holy nun? What's the point of playing? The last level to save her life is to complete her commission. Let's just stop beating her." , being a family that loves each other counts as a family."

Xie Yuanyuan forced his respect and said: "You can't say that, the mission that should be done still has to be completed, there is no other way..."

He Qin took the gold coin, weighed it back and forth several times in his hand, and suddenly said: "Did you hear any sound?"

"What sound..." The moon ring in Wen Zheliu's hand flashed, and He Qin's sense of hearing was instantly synchronized, "Wait a minute, it seems that someone..."

There were bursts of faint tremors in the distance, as if there were many people rushing over from here.Wen Zheliu jumped up and hurriedly went to open the curtains, only to see that the night was dark, the fires were like rivers, and like the eyes of wild beasts, they were moving towards here quickly.

"What is that?" Xie Yuanyuan asked nervously, "Is it a human, or a raiding pack of wolves?"

Du Zijun also opened a curtain: "It's not wolves, it's people with torches... and weapons. It seems that the visitors are not good."

"Go and inform the townspeople," He Qin said decisively, "No matter what, they are all unarmed ordinary people now."

At the same time, many people were awakened by the approaching flames, and they all put on their pajamas and went out to check curiously.Wen Zheliu quickly opened the door latch, and sternly shouted: "Go back! Don't come out, block the door, this is not the excitement you should watch!"

Strange to say, the night was quiet, and his raised voice was loud, as long as he was not deaf, he should be able to hear it, but more and more townspeople went out to discuss, but none of them took a look at Wen Zheliu.

"You..." Wen Zheliu was stunned, "Didn't you hear? The people who came here still have weapons, and they are probably robbers, you guys go in quickly...!"

He was just about to grab a person's arm, but his palm seemed to pass through a fog of uncertain whereabouts, and it was emptied all at once!

Wen Zheliu froze for a moment.

He ran forward in disbelief, bumping into the gathered town residents, but he and them seemed to be in a different world, not even a person in the same time and space.Wen Zheliu couldn't tell whether he was a wandering soul, or these townspeople were ghosts that lingered after death. He passed through their bodies, but did not affect them in the slightest.

"How come..." Wen Zheliu turned around, and saw Grace and the maid come out of the house in a panic, passing through Xie Yuanyuan's blocking body along the way.

"Hey!" Xie Yuanyuan exclaimed, "What's going on, have you turned into a ghost?!"

Wen Zheliu counted roughly, there were more than 300 of those people, before they arrived, a few splashing torches fell from the sky first, and landed mercilessly on the thatched pile at the entrance of the town!

It was early summer at this time, and the air at night was still hot and dry. As soon as the flames touched the haystacks, they burned blazingly.The woman screamed loudly, and the townspeople panicked and went home to find the sealed weapons, planning to organize resistance.

"What is it, is it a robber?!" Xie Yuanyuan shouted, "Hurry up and run, don't wait here to die!"

He Qin's expression was cold and solemn, he narrowed his golden pupils reflecting the fire, and said in a deep voice: "Stop shouting, they won't be able to hear you."

"Why?!" Xie Yuanyuan looked back and forth in bewilderment, "Have we been tricked by some props, why can't we touch the objects around us?"

Wen Zheliu looked at the townspeople who fired warning shots, and immediately realized what happened.

"No," he said, "we're not counted, we're just... not in the same world as them."

Xie Yuanyuan was taken aback, and heard Du Zijun say: "...the world of the living and the world of the dead are different."

The two old horses in the stable were whining and neighing, and the coachman also rushed out of the house, wailing incessantly: "Gentlemen, don't look, the bloody robbers are coming! Before they notice my carriage, we run!"

"It's not a bandit," Wen Zheliu's eyes showed pain, "it's a soldier who has nowhere to go after the war, and they pointed their guns at innocent people again."

The coachman was taken aback by him: "Sir, stop talking nonsense! It's been ten years since the war ended, and my son has grown up and gone to work in a big city. How can there be any soldiers now?"

"The time and space you are in is not the present, but the cyclical past, the summer of 1946." He Qin snapped his fingers, and the driver's eyes blurred immediately, and he fell backwards, "For you, as long as Once you get some sleep, everything will be over."

The flames soared into the sky, and the two sides handed over their troops, immediately showing a one-sided massacre trend.The bandits who invaded this small town were still wearing old military uniforms, but the enemy they faced at this moment was not the enemy soldiers who stood in the opposite camp to them, but ordinary people who had no power to fight back.

The cries and screams of women and children, the roars and wailing of men, the flames burned the rows of houses, the scorching heat twisted and swept the air, and there were flying sparks everywhere. Killing, blood flowed like a river in an instant, a narrow street was full of lying corpses in an instant!

The four of them were like standing on rocks in the flood, surrounded by huge waves, and they were the only witnesses and witnesses who had nothing to do with themselves.

"Ah!" A woman's hoarse scream came from not far away, and Wen Zheliu turned around like an electric shock, only to see a black veil flying and burning on the flames, its owner struggling with hands and feet , surrounded by laughter like howling wild animals.

He Qin covered his eyes: "Don't look, Ning Ning, let's get out from here!"

"I...let me think...!" Wen Zheliu struggled in his strong arms, "No, I can definitely..."

"This is a fact that has already happened!" He Qin said loudly in his ear, "Baby, this is the only thing you can't do, and neither can I!"

Du Zijun grabbed the roaring and tumbling sea water from the tattoo on his shoulder, and rushed towards the burning house in front of him, but the sea water that had been covered for a long time fell to the ground with a loud noise, forming an incredible overlapping scene with the flames. It's like the same space, two forms at different times.The fire dances on the sea, and the sea overflows in the fire.

"...No way," he shook his head, "It's not something we can..."

"Why borrow my sea?" Long Ji's voice whispered in his ear, "To extinguish this fire, you can only scoop up the legendary spring water that can rejuvenate people, it can change time, maybe it can also interfering with the fact that it has already happened."

"The people who come later cannot change the established result." The mist quietly filled, and Jenny whispered in their ears, "There is no need to be sad, their fate has long been a foregone conclusion in the past. In the thousands of worlds, only time can change time .”