Master Swindler

Lu Qingjia's good looks are due to the genes of his unreliable parents. Of course, the good looks they inherited are the only positive property they left to Lu Qingjia.

Lu Qingjia's mother is beautiful, with good genes from her mother's line. It is said that her grandfather was also a well-known handsome guy back then. The old black and white photos of him wearing a military coat, looking at them today, are still more stunning than many celebrities who have refined pictures at first glance.

The mother looks good, but the old uncle looks better.

There is a five or six-year age gap between the old uncle and the mother, and the mother got pregnant with the father and dropped out of school before graduating from high school. In fact, the age difference between Lu Qingjia and the old uncle is only twelve or thirteen years old.

After his parents were involved in the incident and died, the old uncle who took Lu Qingjia over to raise him was only in his early twenties.

She is younger than Lu Qingjia is now.

The age difference between teenagers seemed conspicuous when they were young, but as Lu Qingjia grew up, especially after the rapid growth in junior high school, the two of them didn't look like relatives of the younger generation, but like brothers.

The old uncle is either because of his excellent genetics, or because he is diligent in exercising, and because he is nourished by his spiritual power as a game player, in fact, he has not changed much for so many years.

It's just that her demeanor is more mature and stable. After the last trace of youthfulness faded from her appearance, she is in the best state.

The old uncle in the photo is like going back in time, back to the time when he found himself.

I was still a young man who was a little immature, but I stretched out my hand to myself: "Jiajia, I will be your guardian from now on."

Lu Qingjia's eyes were a little hot, and her nose was sore and swollen.

Feeling the soft touch on his arm, he lowered his head and found that it was the black cat comforting himself with a meat pad.

Lu Qingjia took a deep breath and forced herself to return to reason.

This is undoubtedly the old uncle's original copy, which belongs to the exchange student copy of the horror game.

Except for a few cases, the world of the dungeon is mostly a secondary real world. If the information fed back by the photo is true, then when the old uncle entered this dungeon, the character must have been the eldest son of this family.

Not only the photos, but also the layout of the room, collecting tea sets, hobbies to pass the time, and even his favorite books on the bookshelf, all made Lu Qingjia feel deeply familiar.

Because in his house, the room that has been dusted is also like this.

I just don't know what kind of form the second son of the family, the role that Lu Qingjia is now replacing, existed when the old uncle came in.

It's no wonder that before the old uncle died, he almost desperately asked himself not to avenge him, and not to have anything to do with the game.

In order to prevent Lu Qingjia from stepping on the road of no return, he has been strictly guarding against death, but after entering this game, if he finds that the younger brother who replaces the character looks exactly like his nephew, he may be overwhelmed by the absurd sense of fate in an instant.

As for why the 'fraudster' was so impatient to let him enter this dungeon that might reveal the real body of the fraudster, Lu Qingjia seemed to have some signs of it.

Lu Qingjia sat on the bed, stroking the cat's fur, as if talking to him, and also seemed to be talking to himself: "Because the old uncle's mission failed, the consequence is not only his own death, right?"

This can also explain why the old uncle is so afraid of his revenge, because he is very clear about his nephew's ability, and there is a high probability that he will find a copy of his death.

However, this dungeon was marked with a curse the moment he stepped in.

The fraud master not only did not stop him from coming here but also made it possible, because he knew that there was a dead end waiting for him.

Apart from blood relatives who had been here before, Lu Qingjia couldn't think of any other more reasonable clues to trigger the curse.

Before Lu Qingjia guessed the possibility that all members would be collectively cursed after a certain period of time after entering the dungeon, even before he verified it, he directly judged that the probability was lower than the latter possibility.

And of course, Lu Qingjia was in a rare embarrassment just because of the tentative appetizer just now. The difficulty of this dungeon has really increased. It is Lu Qingjia's current ability, and he alone cannot guarantee 100% avoiding the dead line.

Because this is the same as Ouyang Bai's halo bounce, it is almost an unsolvable difficulty.

And Lu Qingjia is almost certain that the rule of temporarily avoiding the dead line here is to find a player for himself to act as a dead ghost.

At the beginning, the old uncle and the others probably experienced a tragic intrigue, but in the end he lost, and he gave up his trust at an inopportune time, at the cost of his own life.

However, these clues and judgments were too general, and Lu Qingjia didn't know the specific details of the operation, so it was impossible to talk about customs clearance or even find out the fraudster.

At this time, Mother Lu's phone call came in again, to check whether Lu Qingjia had returned home.

Lu Qingjia probably also guessed why Mother Lu's current irritability and nervousness came from, so she became a little more patient.

He replied, "I'm already home, how about you?"

Mother Lu breathed a sigh of relief: "Just get home, don't run around, I won't be back until later, your cousin is dead, and now they are having trouble."

Lu Qingjia comforted her, and then asked Mother Lu about the players she recognized based on the seat memory and appearance characteristics at that time.

Since they all have to bear the curse, most of them are also members of their own family. Sure enough, Mother Lu quickly checked the information and told Lu Qingjia the names of those players and their relationship with the family.

He chattered endlessly about Lu Qingjia staying at home all day and not socializing, even forgetting his relatives.

After Lu Qingjia ended the phone call, she looked through her address book and found that everyone in it had contact information.

Even if they don't have a phone, they are at least in the same family WeChat group.

So he directly pulled a small group and pulled several people into it.

He changed the avatar into a selfie of himself, as long as he saw it at the banquet at that time, he should have an impression.

So Lu Qingjia received the feedback very quickly. In less than 10 minutes, all the players who had met at the wedding all froze.

[For players in the same game, the rules haven't mentioned competition yet. Of course it's best to work together to make a fortune, don't you think? ] Said a player of an extreme game.

[That is, of course we hope to unite to the outside world. After all, most of the players in our horror games also work together.It’s just that your extreme games and infinite games—of course, I don’t mean to be biased, but because of the special screening conditions and competitive environment, it’s not uncommon to stab your teammates in the back.We are happy, but what about your sincerity? 】

【Heh, it's like the goldfishers and hunters of your horror games are vegetarians. 】

It is relatively easy to sign up for groups between infinite game and extreme game players, and there are quite a few players who know information about the exchange student system and other games.

[Stop talking about the scene, shall we?Now that the rules are not clear, it is too early to say anything.It's just that it's okay to exchange information. 】

[The premise is that there is an exchange of information of equal value. 】

Lu Qingjia was impatient with this step. In the end, he didn't take the difficulty to heart if it was just a customs clearance.

Even if the difficulty of this dungeon exceeds any one he has experienced before.

He doesn't need the cooperation of the players, but he doesn't want these guys to cause him trouble by acting smart.

It is necessary to master and guide their customs clearance ideas, which involves an absolute information gap.

So he said directly: [The task of this dungeon is to survive the curse. Although we can’t guarantee that we are all the players in this game, we belong to the same family and have inherited a curse together. The groom who died today is because this. 】

[It wasn't a car accident, or a plot arrangement, but it was his time to die. 】

[The difficulty of the dungeon is very high, and the setting is a bit like the god of death is coming. In short, there are countless accidents and power beyond common sense. Although everyone has their own abilities at this point, I will only say this once. 】

[Don't be too confident in any of your life-saving means. Finally, I wish everyone good luck. 】

The WeChat group was quiet for more than a minute.

Just now it was just an exchange of information, and everyone still has guesses about what they saw and thought, so they must be secretive, so as not to reveal the key clues that determine the opportunity.

But Lu Qingjia shook it all out in one breath, and it was to a point that they hadn't even dug into. Such generosity even made them feel like they were stepping on the ground.

My first reaction was, is this guy crazy?The second reaction is that I am afraid that I did not deliberately make up stories to deceive people in order to disturb the muddy water.

However, the reality is that as soon as Lu Qingjia finished speaking, the mission of the game was announced——

[Trigger the main line: the mystery of the family curse.Mission: Survive for fifteen days. 】

"..."

Is this really not a lie?

Although there are only two short sentences, there are already quite a few side reactions.

Lu Qingjia announced the mission just after he finished speaking, which means that at least the general direction he said was correct, so there is no need to discover the incident, and the game was directly announced.

As for this copy of the so-called XX mystery, the general basic task must be to solve the mystery, right?But the mission benchmark here is only to require the player to survive, and not even to make any exploration requirements, one can imagine the difficulty.

Then what Lu Qingjia said just now is not alarmist.

At this moment, everyone has not faced the power of this curse directly. No matter how they describe it, those who can enter the exchange student scene are at least the best in their own game, and it is not enough to destroy their self-confidence.

Lu Qingjia also got the clues she wanted from the attitudes of the people, there was no need for them to deliberately explain, on the contrary, if they asked directly or indirectly, if the other party was vigilant, they might even lie or mislead.

But now it seems that he is the only one who has indeed received the curse, but anyone who feels the lingering coldness from the inside out will not question his direct showdown at the beginning.

Lu Qingjia chatted with the players again, agreed that they could contact them at any time, and went to the kitchen to order three bowls of noodles.

Thanks to Mother Lu's phone call in a few minutes, Lu Qingjia was able to accurately control their positions.

After the noodles were ready, Lu's father and Lu's mother just arrived home.

There was an accident at the wedding banquet without eating anything, and now the two of them are hungry.

Lu's mother was originally full of anger and anxiety, but when she saw her son at home, her mood eased a little.

The expression on his face was restrained, and he sighed, "Let's eat first."

Halfway through the meal, Lu Qingjia suddenly asked: "Mom, did my brother have a close relationship with anyone at that time? Do you still have any memories?"

With the temperament of the old uncle, even if he cleared the customs, he would not let his anxious parents ignore him. If he and the fraudster had played the role of protector and protected at that time, it is not impossible for Lu's father and Lu's mother to see fraudsters. Deceit.

Of course, it is also a way to find it from the younger generation in the big family. After all, if it is the same copy, the fraud master is likely to be one of the cursed young people in this family.

But if the other party successfully clears the level, then the remaining characters will either disappear or the world line will be adjusted to return to normal life. It is difficult to find out from the clues alone.

When Mother Lu heard him mentioning the eldest son, she paused when she took the chopsticks, and looked up at Lu Qingjia, her eyes were a little horrified——

"Why are you inquiring about this? If you don't mention it sooner or later, you have to mention your brother now? Do you think your mother is having a good life?"

As she said that, she slapped the chopsticks in her hand, the action was so heavy that even the bowl on the table almost turned over, and Lu's father who was eating noodles on the opposite side shrank his shoulders in fright, wishing to erase the sense of existence.

However, Lu's mother, who had already started, couldn't calm down. She grabbed Lu Qingjia's hand with surprisingly strong strength.

"I tell you to listen to your mother carefully. Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't think about what you shouldn't, and don't inquire about what you don't have. You don't talk and ignore people on weekdays. You just know that you have cats and dogs. Why not Follow orders?"

"Your brother was just curious at the beginning, but now you are the only mother left. If you have any troubles, what should I do?"

Lu Qingjia glanced at Father Lu, but the other party avoided his eyes and didn't intend to dissuade him at all. He probably knew that if he made a sound, it would only escalate the conflict.

But he couldn't dodge it. Mother Lu followed Lu Qingjia's line of sight and looked at her. She was like a gasoline barrel that was set on fire, and it exploded all at once.

"You fucking eat, you're going to die, why don't you look at your son?" He sneered, with a hint of hatred in his voice: "That's right, you can rest easy when you have a son."

"How do you deserve that disgusting thing?" Then he threw away Lu Qingjia and beat Lu's father one-sidedly: "How do you deserve my son for your job?"

Then he said madly: "Qiangzi died today, it's a good death, so as not to harm the next generation, tell me that your family should die."

Lu Qingjia quickly pulled the two of them apart, held mother Lu's head, and looked at each other: "Mom, calm down, it's okay, I'm still here, I'm okay."

The powerful mental power suppressed Mother Lu's inner madness and irritability at the moment, and after the relief, she was extremely exhausted.

Lu Qingjia directly carried her into the room, put her on the bed and covered her with a quilt.

Only then did he return to the living room, and saw Father Lu shrugging his shoulders alone, he was only in his fifties, and he was hunched and desolate.

Seeing Lu Qingjia come back, he sighed, "You've grown up and become more and more like your brother."

Lu Qingjia did not comment on the choices made by him and his family for the time being, but continued: "Do you have any impression of what I asked my mother just now?"

Lu's father is not as resistant as Lu's mother to tell Lu Qingjia everything, on the contrary, he is just afraid that Lu's mother will go crazy if she finds out.

Then they made an agreement with Lu Qingjia: "Actually, it's better to let you make a choice than to hide this kind of thing. After all, everyone in our family has to go through this."

So Father Lu told the story of this family.

It is said that there is an ancient mountain village isolated from the world, closed and conservative, and the villagers worship a kind of mountain god from generation to generation.

But the mountain god needs a pair of boys and girls to worship every three years. In the past, everyone was ignorant and ignorant. Later, in modern times, education has spread to the countryside.

Young people saw the outside world through going to school or working part-time, realized the ignorance and cruelty of the mountain village, and organized to ask the elderly in the village to stop offering sacrifices.

As a result, it naturally caused an uproar, and even caused bloodshed. The old man who had the right to speak did not even allow the children in the village to go out again.

But after seeing the prosperity of the world, how can he be willing to continue to be poor?

So a group of young people planned to escape, and they succeeded at that time, but they didn't expect that their behavior also angered the mountain god.

After the offspring pass, there is a risk of death. Only when a child is born, the curse will be transferred to the child. After 18 years of dormancy, the fate continues to reincarnate.

Regardless of whether it is patrilineal or matrilineal, as long as it is the direct blood of those young people, they are all included in this list.

It has been almost 40 years since then, and there are almost two generations. If the paternal and maternal lines are counted, except for those who have gotten closer in recent years to the wedding banquet today, most of them are people who have not had much contact or are scattered all over the country.

Everyone knows that this is the curse they escaped back then, and it is not that no one tried to bring their descendants back to worship the mountain god and beg for forgiveness.

But without exception, there is no return, and people outside know that there is no possibility of reconciliation in this matter.

Fortunately, this kind of thing happens once every three years, once for [-] days, as long as you get through it, you can stop for three years and take advantage of this time to get married and have children.

And it's not that many people died every time, even for several years, no one died, but the last time was too tragic, including Lu Qingjia's brother (old uncle), a total of seven people died.

Lu's mother also became violent and irritable under the blow of the death of her outstanding eldest son, and she had a strong desire to control the only remaining youngest son.

But it stands to reason that if you want to ensure the survival of your youngest son, the best way is to arrange for him to give birth to a child quickly within these three years.

But Lu's mother, who had lost her son, did not want to see her grandson inherit this tragic fate. The torture of pressure made her even more manic. It is a common thing at home to get angry at the slightest touch like today.

This can also explain why at the beginning of entering the game, Lu Qingjia came to the judgment that the original owner was a taciturn, gloomy and depressed person.

The grief of losing his brother and the unresolved heart knot of his mother, the curse on his body and the depressing and dull family atmosphere, it is strange to be mentally normal.

When Lu Qingjia asked Father Lu about something, he used his mental ability, so that Father Lu could speak freely and tell him what he knew without hiding anything.

After confirming that Lu's father and Lu's mother would no longer get useful information from here, what Lu Qingjia wanted was to send the two of them out of the game field.

This dungeon is too cruel, but Lu's father said that the mass death only happened three years ago, and the previous one dates back more than ten years ago.

Either this dungeon will not be open to players every time, or depending on the group, there are other family groups, but they just haven't exchanged news with their own family.

Lu Qingjia took out two tubes of medicine from the space, which were a kind of medicine bought from the infinite space.

It can erase people's painful memories in a short time, so that the spirit and mood can reach the best level.

This thing was originally an escapist existence similar to drugs in Infinity City, but it is different from that, the body is not addictive and has no side effects.

It's just that it's hard to say about heart addiction. After all, once you use it, you can forget your troubles and be happy. Most people can't refuse it.

Lu Qingjia fed one tube to Lu's mother who was sleeping, and then poured another tube into water to trick Lu's father into drinking it. In a blink of an eye, Lu's father was also sleepy.

While he was resting, Lu Qing settled in the air ticket hotel, packed his luggage and prepared his passport.

After the two of them woke up, they used their spiritual power to guide them while lying to them: "It's too late, let's have something to eat on the way to the airport. I booked the first-class cabin. The food should be good, and I can make up for it when the time comes."

It is implied that the two have travel plans, and they will be sent out of the house. Three hours later, they will fly to a country that can get a visa on arrival and spend the next fifteen days.

In view of Lu Qingjia's physique that the god of death is coming at this moment, he does not plan to send Lu's father and mother, but fortunately, the other party did not force him.

Although he was led by the nose for some inexplicable reasons, he was in a good mood when he was about to leave the house.

After the two left, Lu Qingjia arranged the next matters. No matter what, he had to go back to the small mountain village first.

Unexpectedly, when he was about to take the cat out the next day, Tang Bo's family came to him.

A group of people slapped open the door noisily and rudely, and opened their mouths to tell Lu Qingjia about the woman who made a big fuss about the wedding yesterday.

"When you took her away, you had to hand her over."

"I don't care, my son was killed by her, and she can't run away even if he kills him."

Lu Qingjia didn't have the slightest affection for this family, and said with a half-smile: "You don't know where my cousin lived with her for five years?"

"At that time, I just watched the fight, and I was afraid that the police would pull her out. After that, she left. I didn't know her, and of course I didn't know where she went."

"Bah! Who knows what you're thinking all day long? You're the loneliest of the whole family, why didn't you die?"

"Auntie, it's all right, all the family don't say that."

"We went to find that woman, but she had already moved away, and the company where she worked didn't go. We suspected that she just ran away."

"Qiangzi's death cannot be left unanswered. Since you took him away, you have to be responsible for finding him."

Lu Qingjia just laughed: "Cousin's death is why you don't have any points? What's the use of finding her?"

"Don't worry about it, I'll help you find someone."

Lu Qingjia raised her eyebrows. It stands to reason that a woman's value has been squeezed out by the cousin's family. If the groom's family is changed to an ordinary person, it is possible to blame the woman, thinking that the other party has killed someone.

But this family knows their own affairs well. It is understandable that the anger should be turned into anger at the moment, but the woman has given up everything, even the real estate that they were fighting for before. Objectively speaking, they should be relieved that the other party gave up the fight of.

If you want to find someone on purpose, don't you worry that the other party will tear their faces and continue to fight?Anyway, if it really worked out, she wouldn't have to bear the slightest responsibility for the groom's death.

It's fine that the groom's parents are distracted by hatred, what happened to the others?

The conclusion, then, is that women took something away that they had to take back.

Lu Qingjia temporarily pressed this point, but decided to go back to the mountain village first.

He said: "Okay, but I have something to go out, and I will look for it with you when I come back."

"Your cousin is dead and you go out without looking for someone? Do you have a conscience?"

"Where are you going?"

Lu Qingjia smiled: "I'll go back to my hometown."

When the few people heard this, they immediately looked like they were looking at a lunatic, and then they heard Lu Qingjia say again: "Oh, by the way, I started to get unlucky yesterday afternoon, and was almost killed by a steel pipe falling from the garage. too close."

Saying this, the few people took a big step back and dared not approach again.

After sending the family away, Lu Qingjia received information from an extreme player and an infinite player, and the other party also learned the origin of the curse from his family.

Thinking of Lu Qingjia, who knew a lot of clues from the beginning, he felt a little bit of an alliance.

Then he asked him if he wanted to go back to the mountain village together.

Lu Qingjia didn't refuse either, because there were no coordinates over there, and Lu Qingjia couldn't use her abilities, and she was afraid that ordinary people would be harmed by transportation, so she rented a car and drove back with three people and one cat.

Walking in the morning, it was already evening when we arrived at the destination town.

There was still a long mountain road ahead, so Lu Qingjia and the others left the car in the town and headed straight for the village.

The reason why the village is isolated from the outside world is that there are several major mountains in the middle. If you take the mountain road, there are nine bends and eighteen bends, and the distance of dozens of miles is enough to walk.

But if it is a straight line, the distance will be shortened by nearly ten times. The three players are all masters in physical skills. It is no problem to cross mountains and cross rivers.

So it didn't take long to reach the village before the sun went down.

From a distance, I saw a dead cat hanging on an old locust tree at the entrance of the village. There are still many customs in rural areas. After a cat dies, it will not be buried, but the body will be hung on the tree.

When the three approached, Lu Qingjia suddenly felt something was wrong, and turned over the dead cat with a branch.

The cat corpse turned around, and at the other end was a dead baby that was covered in purple and rotted.

Players of Infinity and Extreme games generally pass the dungeons to test their physical limits, but they rarely have such a spooky visual impact.

Seeing this subconsciously stepped back.

As a result, I bumped into someone, and when I looked back, I saw an old woman whose face was like old tree bark, covered with age spots, and her teeth had fallen out, but she didn't know when she appeared here.

Staring at the three people, as if very satisfied, he smiled and showed a mouthful of black teeth: "Are you back?"