Master Swindler

Lu Qingjia's parents have the same surname, so his uncle's surname is actually Lu.

As he grew up, the nephew and uncle looked more and more like brothers rather than relatives of the inferior generation. This is not just talking.

They look somewhat similar, have the same surname, and the age difference in appearance is not too big. Since they were in junior high school, most of the new guests of the farmhouse are mistaken.

However, no one can correct this stuff, so there are even many enthusiastic people who bring up the "younger brother" alone because their parents are dead, which means introducing partners for young people.

Of course, it wasn't just a few years ago that I wanted to introduce someone to my uncle. After all, he was a good talent. Although he was low-key, he obviously had a lot of savings at home.

But Lu Qingjia knew from a certain period of time that his uncle's sexual orientation was similar to his own, so everyone around him was very hot.

When she became aware of her sexuality in adolescence, it was also the positive guidance of the old uncle that allowed Lu Qingjia to accept it well, and did not have any negative psychological effects for this thing that was not tolerated by the surrounding environment.

However, from the process of the old uncle guiding him, Lu Qingjia can also see his aesthetics and preferences from his words.

The old uncle's eyes were not low, anyway, before he died, Lu Qingjia didn't see any sign of him being tempted by anyone in reality.

When it was speculated based on various clues that there might be a relationship between the fraudster and the old uncle, Lu Qingjia was actually unwilling to accept this conjecture from the bottom of her heart.

Because once it is confirmed, it means the betrayal and pain that the old uncle experienced at that time. When a person died miserably in the game, it was more painful than he imagined.

But now he was told that the old uncle had already married in the game.

Although it is possible that this ceremony was due to the dungeon situation or other purposes, but if there is any possibility, the old uncle really has a longing for the future and wants to start a family with another person for the first time.

As long as there is a slight possibility of this, Lu Qingjia will be so distressed that it is difficult to breathe.

Perhaps it was because the expression on his face was too serious, the voices of the chattering little girls in the relaxed atmosphere became quieter.

Lu Qingjia immediately realized this, and raised an unnatural smile: "What's going on? Can you tell me about it?"

The girl who brought up the topic said: "We don't know very well. We were young that year, and it's the same as these days. Brother Ji returned to the village with a few people. There was a person who was closest to Brother Ji. At that time, we As if they were just having fun."

"Later, several other people died slowly, and in the end only Brother Ji and that person remained, and they got married in the Shanshen Temple."

"That's when I realized that men can marry men too?" The girl's expression was exaggerated, which shows that she was greatly impacted at that time.

She went on to say, "However, when Brother Ji said that there would be a wedding event, although the adults in the village scolded them, they finally agreed. The village head and great uncle also helped set up the wine, and all the villagers participated."

"Anyway, if adults think it's okay, then it must be right."

This closed mountain village is also a girl who is in a dominant position, and her values ​​are naturally based on obeying authority. No matter how unbelievable something is, as long as the adults and the elderly say it is right, there will be no doubts.

After speaking, the girl looked at Lu Qingjia worriedly: "But don't die, we all like you, you'd better go back to the city."

Lu Qingjia smiled: "Did my brothers leave here and go back to the city in the end?"

"Hee hee, you are so interesting, don't you know if your brother went back at that time?"

From the girl's tone, it turned out that she didn't even know if Lu Ji was dead or not.

Well, when the so-called old uncles returned to the city at that time, they don't know whether they saw it with their own eyes or it was the result of "unified announcement" by others.

Lu Qingjia first had to determine where the old uncle died.

Anyway, his ashes were not buried in the cemetery run by Lu's father and Lu's mother. Now that he said so, then the place of death is not simple.

In short, according to the current clues, the role of the old uncle neither died after returning to the city, so that Lu's father and Lu's mother could collect the body smoothly.

It is also inconvenient to 'die' in the village, otherwise the village is so big, even if he died, it would not be a big deal to contain the corpse of a young man of the same clan and dig a hole to bury it.

Lu Qingjia asked some more questions, and the girls didn't know the importance, so they poured out everything they knew.

After a while, some farm workers passed by the river and saw a few idlers walking around Lu Qingjia. They scolded Lu Qingjia twice, and then gave Lu Qingjia another look. The girls dispersed and continued to wash clothes.

Lu Qingjia said goodbye to several people and left the river.

It was already early in the morning, and those who had jobs were all working in the fields, and those who had no jobs mostly gathered on the dam in front of a certain house to peel peanuts and grind their teeth.

Seeing Lu Qingjia, the voices of these people obviously lowered, and the defenses of adults were not as easy to break through as a few little girls.

However, Lu Qingjia had no embarrassment on his face, and even greeted people with a smile, as if the targeting and barriers in that atmosphere did not exist, which made others quite embarrassed.

Lu Qingjia came to the mountain god ancestral hall that he had visited yesterday, and knocked on the door, which was opened by that man.

Yesterday Lu Qingjia judged that his actual age should be younger than what he showed, but in fact it was the opposite. According to several girls, the other party was already in his 70s, and he was one of the people with the highest voice in the village other than the village chief. one.

This is very abnormal. It's not that Lu Qingjia's eyes can't make mistakes, but the other party's eyes, the state of energy of the whole person, as well as the strength of bones and muscle distribution during walking, all show that this person's body functions are in the prime of life, but only the appearance It's rough.

The man opened the door, and he was not surprised to see Lu Qingjia coming. At his age, if he had been in charge of guarding the ancestral hall, he must have come into contact with a lot of players.

He nodded at Lu Qingjia: "What are you here for?"

Lu Qingjia said: "I heard that my brother paid homage to someone else here three years ago. Although my brother is gone now and my parents and relatives have no way of knowing about this marriage, but now that I know it, I also want to learn more about it. thing."

"Can you tell me about this brother and let me express my condolences?"

The man twitched his lips, as if he had never seen such a fake young man who asked for clues after he came back.

But he didn't refuse Lu Qingjia's request. After letting him into the ancestral hall, he pointed to the layout inside and said, "This is the hall to worship here."

"Any happy event in the village is handled at the ancestral hall. Firstly, we distribute the joy to the mountain god, and secondly, we also ask the mountain god to bless everything smoothly."

"Your brother and the rest are the same as you are now. They fled back in a panic. Although the sins of your grandparents' generation will be retribution on your children, it is still embarrassing."

"It's useless to come back. It seems that many years ago, the mountain god liked to pick out a worship year from time to time to kill, but I didn't expect that this time it would happen twice in a row—"

The man accepted the message, and continued his previous answer: "At that time, the other children were all dead, and only your brother and the other one were left. Before they died, they wanted to get married. Although it is unheard of for a man to marry a man, But when people are about to die, we as elders can only fulfill our wishes."

"I'm afraid you haven't seen it before?" Lu Qingjia said suddenly.

The man didn't react for a while: "What did you say?"

"I'm afraid this is not the first time we've seen a man marrying a man?" Lu Qingjia repeated.

The look on the man's face became visibly stiff at that moment, his eyes gleamed strangely, and he changed from the easy-going before to full of aggression.

"What are you talking about?" the other party said in a deep voice.

Lu Qingjia smiled, and the determined tone just now changed, as if it was a sentence of a young man's whim.

"No, I just feel that many homosexuals out there have failed to make their parents understand by forcing them to death. The blind dates in the village are quick to accept it. It seems that the degree of conservatism in a place should not be measured by whether it is closed or not."

"However, most of the folks in the village are relatives who haven't released their fifth clothes yet. They feel sorry for the younger generation who won't live long, and they all feel compassionate. They are busy arranging wine. Everyone in the village put aside their suspicions and came to participate. Sure enough, blood is thicker than water~~"

Lu Qingjia's expression at that time was grateful and sincere, as if he had learned that his brother's last wish was fulfilled with the tolerance of his fellow villagers. Anyone who saw it would be moved.

But the man listened to his words, his tone of voice, and those subtle ending turns, but it sounded sarcasm no matter what.

The man didn't know how to react for a while, the attack was too fussy, and he endured it inexplicably aggrieved, which made his already dark and yellow face even darker.

But Lu Qingjia no longer entangled with this topic, and asked again: "Do you still have any impression of my uncle-sister-in-law?"

"It's a pity to say that they did such a big thing at the beginning, but then they disappeared, and our family has never been able to see each other."

"If possible, although it does not have legal effect, we still want to see each other as relatives who love my brother together."

The man looked at Lu Qingjia with a strange expression: "Didn't he already leave? Didn't contact you?"

"No, who knows why, maybe he is afraid of living alone and ashamed to face us? But he really thinks too much, how can we embarrass his partner in front of my brother's spirit in heaven?"

The man asked Lu Qingjia back as if he had found a loophole: "The young people who can go back to the village are all relatives. The group who went outside back then are in your generation, and they probably haven't released five clothes yet."

"You have lived together since childhood, but you don't even know who it is?"

Lu Qingjia's eyes flickered, confirming that the man was deliberately avoiding answering this question directly, so the current situation is much more interesting.

It is obviously different from the girls in the village who clearly remember that incident and remember that there are so few people whose impressions become blurred.

Lu Qingjia asked again: "By the way, did they leave the village together after they got married?"

The man nodded: "Although what happened back then made everyone angry, but in the end the child was innocent, and every time someone came back, the village never felt sorry."

"You saw this year and expected that someone might come back, and the house was cleaned for you in advance."

"At that time, they knew they were hopeless, and they left together not long after they got married. Later, we still knew from the birth of the baby that they were gone."

Shengwa is the teacher in the village who teaches children to read and write. He has gone to college outside and returned to the village. He is one of the few people who can contact the outside world.

Lu Qingjia didn't even bother to point out the flawed words one by one.

He just smiled and asked: "Oh, is that so? How about the uncle, who died and who lived? After all, my brother's ashes have not yet entered the cemetery. , so I won’t forget to collect my brother’s body and treat him as buried in the village.”

The man was asked this question, but he didn't panic, instead he smiled: "I know, I know, every year the people selected by the mountain god come back and light a lamp in the ancestral hall, and then see if the lamp goes out after fifteen days, which means life and death. Mile."

The man smiled strangely: "Your brother's light is off, but there is no one in his house, so we will know. I just don't know why your brother is gone, but you haven't found the body yet?"

"Poor boy, I don't know how many years I will be a lonely ghost."

When the man said this, he looked directly at Lu Qingjia and said with a provocative look, obviously trying to provoke him on purpose.

Lu Qingjia found out that this person was inconsistent with the elderly. This is not the escape mentality that old people can have, especially those who have guarded the ancestral hall for many years.

The other party seemed to not want to let go of any of Lu Qingjia's gaffes and anger, but he didn't do what he wanted.

Lu Qingjia showed a slightly weird smile, and he said, "My brother, like me, doesn't care about where he lives after death."

"It's fine to be accompanied by the culprit."

Lu Qingjia took a deep look at the ancestral hall and the extremely ugly and unorganized stone enshrined on it, and finally his eyes fell on the man.

His gaze was too aggressive. Since this village has held live sacrifices for many years, and the man is the person in charge, it is impossible that he has not seen blood.

But Lu Qingjia's eyes almost made him take two steps back, and he held back with force of will.

The man remembered that when he was a child, he went out to the mountains with his adults to go to the market. At that time, there were wanted notices posted all over the town.

It is said that a murderer who committed more than a dozen murders across provinces fled to the local area. At that time, the case shocked the whole country, it was broadcast on the news every day, and the whole town was panicked.

Just by looking at the photo on the arrest warrant, the child felt that the murderer looked extremely hideous. The indifference to human life and the strength brought by crime directly impacted the young man's youthfulness through the unclear black and white photos. soul.

He had nightmares when he came back that night.

But the look in Lu Qingjia's eyes just now made me, who was no longer childish and cowardly, feel the horror at that time again.

Even though Lu Qingjia's appearance looks handsome and kind, it is far from being vicious, even if he has a devout belief in the mountain god and believes that it is omnipotent.

But still can't offset the impact.

The man's face was a little pale, but he saw Lu Qingjia suddenly approaching.

This startled him, and he even took a few steps back subconsciously.

Lu Qingjia smiled easily and said, "Don't be afraid, I won't do anything to you?"

"Didn't you say that you can light a lamp to confirm life and death? Where is it?"

The man seemed to have just remembered it at this time, and he was quite ashamed of his embarrassment just now when he came back to his senses.

His attitude towards Lu Qingjia was not good, so he led him to a corner and took out three oil lamps from the cabinet inside.

Put it in front of him and said: "Here, you have to order it yourself."

Lu Qingjia said again: "Where is my brother's oil lamp, can you show me?"

The man didn't refuse either, so Lu Qingjia got two oil lamps the size of copper-colored wine glasses. The edges of the oil lamps were black and there were obvious traces of use, but there was no dust and they were in good condition.

Lu Qingjia glanced at her uncle's lamp, it was nothing special except for his name on the bottom of the lamp.

He glanced at his own candlestick again, and raised his eyebrows at the man.

The man hurriedly said: "I did it for you all night last night, just to worry that you people won't know where to go in the end."

Although the lettering under the oil lamp looked fresh, Lu Qingjia was sure that he didn't rush to work overnight, but he didn't expose it.

Instead, he picked up the oil lamp of the person who worshiped his uncle, and looked at the place where his name should be engraved.

【Lu Qingzhou】

Lu Qingjia raised her head abruptly, her eyes caught the man caught off guard, and her mental skills were activated: "His name is Lu Qingzhou?"

The man nodded: "Yes, aren't you relatives? You don't know each other?"

Lu Qingjia smiled: "Look at you, I just ask a question, why are you talking so much?"

The man held his breath and couldn't get up or down, so he said in a rough voice: "It's done, I'm still busy, you hurry up and turn on the lamp."

Lu Qingjia put his oil lamp on the table, but instead asked inexplicably: "I didn't say the main point, I just want to have a look."

"But my brother and my sister-in-law's oil lamps are useless, right? Can you keep them for me as a souvenir?"

The man didn't care about the discarded oil lamp, but had a tricked expression: "You don't light it? Why don't you ask me if you don't light it?"

"Don't be stubborn now. The mountain god will punish people with many tricks. When something really happens, there is no way to believe it. What do you ask your parents to do? Look for you everywhere with a glimmer of hope? You are also cruel. "

Lu Qingjia smiled, and said nonchalantly: "It's okay, I have already left a suicide note, if I don't go home within half a month, I must be dead."

"Since people are gone, to be honest, I don't really care about what happens after death. It doesn't make any difference to die. If it's in the way of people's eyes, someone will take it away. If it doesn't hinder people, then it's not bad to return to nature."

Said Lu Qingjia left directly, and took away the lamp oil in the oil lamp before leaving.

The man was dumbfounded: "Hey, hey! What are you doing? Can this be taken?"

"We don't have many lighting places in our house. What's wrong with me bringing some lamp oil back?" Lu Qingjia looked at him with clear eyes: "Is there something special about this lamp oil that can't be taken away?"

The man stopped talking and could only watch Lu Qingjia leave.

Lu Qingjia returned to the house arranged for them at noon, and at this time the other two players also came back.

Each of them had gained something all morning, and the three of them didn't bother to make food, so they each took food out of the space, and exchanged their gains while eating.

The extreme player first said: "It is said to worship the mountain god, but I don't think there is anything unusual about the surrounding mountains, and I haven't even changed because of the indoctrination of thousands of years of belief."

"Generally, even if it starts from ignorance, since the power of evil has been produced, things that are poured into faith will inevitably mutate, but there is no such thing here."

The infinite player continued: "When we came yesterday, the dead baby hanging at the entrance of the village did not die recently. It must have been half a year."

"But the body was preserved, and it was only these two days, that is, when the curse began to hang up."

"I exchanged sugar from children for news. It is said that every time at this time, a black cat and a baby girl have to be hanged, and the corpses are at the entrance of the village."

"Specifically want a baby girl?" Lu Qingjia confirmed.

"Yes, as long as it is a baby girl, not a baby boy." The infinite player said: "With the spell under the bed, I think this village may also contribute to the flames, but I tried it out, and the village is indeed full of ordinary people."

"At least in terms of force, it is absolutely impossible to cause direct harm to players of our level, and there is no such profession as a witch in the village. Although people who believe in mountain gods still make living sacrifices in this era, it seems that there is no such thing in the homes of those people. How many other traces of superstition."

Unlimited players were born in remote rural areas, and they know that the more superstitious this kind of place is, in fact, it is not difficult to see the traces at home, not to mention some taboo placements, worship objects, safety charms or ornaments for children, all of which are not there, at least superficially. It seems not.

It really doesn't fit the style of an extremely superstitious village.

Lu Qingjia then shared her findings. Apart from the matter of the old uncle's marriage, the two players could hear from the villagers that Lu Qingjia's "brother" had also returned to this village last time, and he was only a member of the previous session. A player has only entered that role, and there is no doubt that Lu Qingjia and Lu Ji are relatives in reality.

The two players became more certain when they learned that oil lamps with names had been prepared in the village long before they came back.

"They knew we were coming back and had already identified who it was."

In addition to the players, there was only one wave of NPCs who fled outside because of the curse and found that they could not break the curse, and they died at the beginning.

Although there are people in the village who still maintain a certain amount of contact with the outside world, no matter how you think about it, it is not possible to send back the genealogy of all the people who have spread out outside, right?

What's more, many people outside have not had much contact with me.

But Lu Qingjia said: "Or guess more boldly, it's not that they have already determined who are cursed, but they can control the list of curses for each session?"

When the two players heard this, they were taken aback for a moment, and immediately beamed with joy.

If so, does that mean the curse list is controllable?If I find a way to cross out my own name——

Lu Qingjia poured a basin of cold water, and he smiled and said: "Don't think about it, it's impossible. If it can be changed, then the difficulty of this game is not worthy of being an exchange student dungeon."

"The high probability is that once the curse starts, there is no room for change, but it is still very important to confirm this, and even get a way to arrange the curse list."

While talking, Lu Qingjia's cell phone rang several times in a row, it was the notification tone of WeChat.

Several players above probably obtained relevant information from outside. Although they moved a step slower, they still decided to return to this village to find clues.

In the end, we still have to concentrate on this place.

Lu Qingjia sent them the coordinates, and these people realized that he had already passed by, so they hurried on their way even more anxiously.

After sending the coordinates, Lu Qingjia was about to speak, when suddenly a layer of transparent bubbles overflowed from his skin, and the bubbles became bigger and bigger, even squeezing out the black cat on Lu Qingjia's lap, enclosing him in it.

The two players know that the tricky part of this dungeon lies in this ability riot.

He quickly jumped up and asked, "What's wrong? Do you want to help?"

Lu Qingjia only felt that the air in the bubble was thin, and as he breathed, the oxygen was continuously consumed, and it would only become more and more uncomfortable in the end.

He pointed at the bubble, and the two players reacted and attacked with their abilities and props.

It turned out that it had no effect on him, the two of them didn't hold back when they saw this, they used the maximum output, and even ignored Lu Qingjia's safety in several attacks, but they still did nothing.

This situation was within Lu Qingjia's expectation, but it also made him more gratified by the defensive power of the bubble.

The air bubbles will not block the air, and even filter the air, but at this time it has completely become an airtight dead space.

Lu Qingjia started to turn red due to lack of oxygen, and the several offensive abilities on his body couldn't break the bubbles.

The black cat on the ground showed its paws and wanted to make a move, but was glared at by Lu Qingjia, so he had to withdraw his paws.

In the end, both players became anxious, but they saw Lu Qingjia throwing out a large puddle of mud and submerging themselves, and their bodies sank into the mud space.

The two breathed a sigh of relief when they saw each other escape from the bubble alone.

But what they didn't know was that when Lu Qingjia fell into the muddy space, and the moment her toes touched the ground of the space before she could stand still, her hair suddenly swelled.

Most of them entangled his limbs and even his index finger, and the inside began to drill into his brain. Although the barrier of the god's physique was strong, with the sharpness and speed of the hair, it penetrated the scalp and skull and pierced into the brain, killing him on the spot. It's just a matter of seconds.

However, before Lu Qingjia stabilized his figure, his mobility was restricted. According to his inertia, he would fall to the ground, unable to find his center of gravity for several seconds.

It was quiet outside, and the two players were relieved to see that Lu Qingjia was out of danger, but neither of them spoke for the time being.

The bubble that almost smothered him shattered after Lu Qingjia disappeared, leaving a puddle of mud on the ground.

But the black cat on the ground popped out its claws, digging out three hideous marks on the bluestone ground.