Master Swindler

Lu Qingjia raised her head abruptly, and the shock that even the continuous betrayal of abilities did not bring appeared on her face.

"I-look like me?" Lu Qingjia reconfirmed.

The woman nodded: "Yes, you all look so good, it's not so easy to forget once you've seen it."

"I still remember that it was one night, it was almost midnight, that handsome guy came to the door, the rented house was only this big, I didn't have a place to avoid it, so I just sat by and listened."

"At that time, what the two of them said was quite vague. I only thought that the jade was valuable, so when I went to the wedding to make trouble, I also planned that even if I couldn't get the house back, it would hurt him."

Lu Qingjia didn't care about these things, he quickly took out his phone, which contained photos of the world that he took from his uncle's bedroom.

He handed the photo to the woman: "Is it this person?"

The woman was even more sure now: "It's him, what's the matter? So you are really brothers?"

Lu Qingjia stood up, did not answer the woman's question directly, but just smiled: "I see, thank you, just give me the jade buckle, don't worry, I will spend money to buy it."

The woman quickly waved her hand: "No, no, you have given enough, you can take this away."

While speaking, Lu Qingjia had already left here.

He didn't go back to the mountain village, but went directly to the city where the groom's parents were.

This time I have the coordinates, so I don't need to go to the airport, just open the space door, take a taxi and go straight to the other party's house.

It was only three days before the groom died unexpectedly, and it was time for the funeral.

The parents of the groom held the funeral in the old community where they lived because they were afraid that the house would not be sold after the funeral in the new house.

Rent a piece of land in the open space outside the community, set up a few white tents as a mourning hall, and invite funerals through one train.

When Lu Qingjia arrived, he found the mourning hall following the sound of mourning and music. The parents of the groom and a group of elder relatives were guarding the mourning hall.

When they saw Lu Qingjia, they all looked like they had seen a ghost.

After all, he knew that he had returned to his hometown, and there was not a young man who could come out after returning to his hometown.

So everyone wondered if he had lied to everyone and didn't go back at all.

The groom's parents asked him, "You ran so fast that day, what are you doing now?"

Lu Qingjia said: "I seem to have found the whereabouts of that woman, and I'm here to tell you."

The groom's parents stood up quickly, as if they didn't want Lu Qingjia to speak out in public.

Then he pulled him a little distance outside the tent, and asked anxiously, "Did you find it? Where is she?"

Lu Qingjia smiled: "Don't ask where you are, as long as you know that she is safe now, she already knows that you miss her too, let me bring a word so that you don't have to worry."

The groom's father directly wanted to slap him, and gritted his teeth: "Who cares about that bitch's life? We have to settle accounts with her. She killed my son and sent our old couple with a white-haired man to a black-haired man. She will pay with her life."

Lu Qingjia laughed again: "In our family, isn't it normal for white-haired people to give black-haired people?"

Without waiting for the old couple to scold, they took out the jade buckle. As soon as they saw the jade buckle, they really forgot everything and reached out to grab it.

But Lu Qingjia took it back, and asked in the anxious expressions of the two: "How much benefit does the second cousin's family promise to give you?"

"Huh?" The groom's parents were taken aback by the question, they were caught off guard and didn't have time to cover it up, and their faces were almost engraved with 'How do you know? 'This sentence is over.

Lu Qingjia said to herself again: "You two have lost your only son, so you can only plan for yourself."

"At your age, the most worrying thing is nothing but old age. If you want to enjoy happiness in your old age, you must have money, and you must ensure that someone is there when you are there."

"I guess that's about what the second cousin can give you?" Lu Qingjia grinned and said, "He promised to give you old age?"

"You, what nonsense are you talking about?" The two panicked: "Da Gang is our own nephew. His brother is gone now, so he will naturally have to take care of us in the future."

Lu Qingjia praised Yang Yukou and said: "But when my cousin was still alive, he didn't know anything about it."

Lu Qingjia had already speculated about the efficacy of the jade buckle, but now she had to ask the old man to confirm it.

Then he said directly: "With this life-saving treasure, if it wasn't useless to your family, would you be willing to tell the second cousin?"

The old couple looked even more panicked, thinking that Lu Qingjia already knew everything.

This thing has to be hidden in who's hand to be effective. If everyone knows, who won't come to snatch it?The two of them can't protect them, but they will be resented by all relatives because they have concealed it for many years.

Then he said cautiously: "Jiajia, you pity your poor uncle and aunt who are lonely and helpless, there is nothing we can do."

"In this way, if you find something, you will find it. Don't say it. It's not good for you, is it? We know that you are a filial child, and the old couple will rely on you in the future."

It is very clear that they just want to use this jade buckle to exchange for old age insurance, and it is the same for any junior.

Lu Qingjia is also living under a curse, Yukou is equivalent to saving his life, and he can pass it on after he has a child.

But as long as they are responsible for providing for the elderly couple, they will keep their mouths shut, so that other relatives can't make up their minds, and the two sides don't tear each other up. This is mutually beneficial.

Lu Qingjia smiled and didn't speak, but she didn't refute the two of them either.

The old couple thought he had agreed, after all, people don't let life-saving straws go unnoticed.

He simply reminded Lu Qingjia: "This thing is not a panacea, you still have to be careful."

"It can help you avoid it once, but it won't work the second time. Otherwise, our family wouldn't have lost a child, and finally there is no only Miao Miao."

After Lu Qingjia left the mourning hall, he went straight back to the mountain village.

He settled into his room, the lights outside were still on, and the players were chatting in the yard to enjoy the cool.

Everyone knew that Lu Qingjia had left, but for customs clearance, although everyone is in a peaceful relationship now, they still have their own talents, so there is no reason to say anything even if they are anxious.

Lu Qingjia didn't go out after returning to the room, but lay directly on the bed, holding the jade buckle in front of her eyes.

The black cat lay on his chest and brushed his cheek with its tail, as if to comfort him.

Lu Qingjia was in a complicated mood, angry, sad and inexplicably wanting to laugh.

The old uncle is a decent person, in reality, in order to teach Lu Qingjia, he always sets a good example for him, and sometimes he even feels a little pedantic.

But only now did Lu Qingjia realize that the old uncle's behavior style was also cunning and flexible.

He reminded him of what he had been told, and taught him how to do black hands. Although the old uncle reprimanded him with integrity, his actual actions were honest.

Lu Qingjia could even picture the old uncle using money to clear the way, and swaggeringly replacing the jade buttons in front of the groom.

This made Lu Qingjia laugh a little.

But what followed was intense unworthiness.

According to his investigation all the way, the old uncle's original game was very well completed, and he still held life-saving props in his hand.

The effect of this jade button is to counteract an attack for the cursed person. This may have limited effect on ordinary people, but if it is strong enough to a certain level, just a respite is enough to turn the situation against the wind.

At that time, Lu Qingjia repeatedly asked whether there were other people around when the old uncle came to visit.

The woman's answer is no, only him.

Because he gave tens of thousands of dollars just for looking at a jade button, with the flattery of the groom, when the old uncle left, he personally sent him out of the community.

Didn't see anyone the whole time.

The groom and the woman are not players. On the premise that other players know nothing about this clue, there is no need for the two to separate as a warning. This is not in line with what Lu Qingjia heard from many NPCs. It is the situation of being inseparable from that person.

Then the only possibility is that the old uncle avoided that person and came to the groom's house alone to take the life-saving jade buckle.

This kind of behavior may be reserved for other people, but for the old uncle - Lu Qingjia hopes that his purpose is to save himself a hole card.

However, Lu Qingjia knew exactly what kind of fool he was.

The more he investigated, the more Lu Qingjia hated the fraud master.

He turned over, hugged the cat into his arms, and put away the fake jade button that actually no longer had any function.

Early the next morning, all the players woke up, and when they went out, they saw Lu Qingjia sitting on a chair with a cat in his arms in the yard.

Seeing everyone, he signaled them to sit down: "I have something important to say, please sit down first."

Generally speaking, if the players in the game are not in a confrontational state, as the game progresses, the players will naturally form a bright or default team leader based on performance, contribution, and reputation.

Of course, this is a common situation in low-level fields, but the higher the level of the dungeon, the less likely it will be like this, because everyone is strong, and players of the same level rarely have an overwhelming advantage. Everyone is strong and experienced, so naturally not Easy to be someone's answer.

But this dungeon is too difficult, and compared to the information they have obtained so far, Lu Qingjia seems to be always running ahead of them, and the amount of information they have is not at the same level.

The two players with him naturally obeyed, and the other players also sat down when they saw this.

But he didn't want the words that Lu Qingjia opened his mouth to explode in his ears like thunder.

Lu Qingjia said: "I know the source of the curse in this village, the form of the curse, the law of the curse, the method of evasion, and the way of customs clearance."

"I can share this information with you, but only if you follow my instructions."

Everyone was shocked and wanted to question this guy's big talk, but it was not like he had been slapped in the face before, so they looked at each other.

Finally, a consensus was reached: "If it is true as you said, and you have reached this point, it is naturally thanks to us."

"According to the customs clearance rules, of course the one who contributes the most will get the big head. If you want to get any benefits, you can ask your brothers for help, of course."

"But the premise is that what you say is true."

Lu Qingjia smiled: "That's why I like games more and more."

Because as the level increases, the difficulty increases, and the people you face become more and more intelligent and knowledgeable about current affairs. Many things do not need to be repeatedly emphasized, which saves a lot of effort.

Lu Qingjia threw out a miniature projector, the size of a bee, which was also bought by Infinity City, and projected a picture on the eyes.

It was exactly what Lu Qingjia was looking for at the village chief's house yesterday.

He said to the screen: "This is the genealogy and the sacrificial records over the years. Excluding those before that, and comparing the time of the first session, the identity of the sacrificial host, the identity of the sacrificial offerings, and the year of death of the relatives involved in the sacrificial offerings." moon."

"It's easy to conclude that the ritual began as a blow to a family."

Following Lu Qingjia's explanation and comparing the key information, everyone found that the sacrifices for the previous two or three sessions all came from the same family, and the first priest was the son-in-law of that family, but it seemed that this son-in-law was messing with his own family.

Most people in this village are ignorant and ignorant. Up to now, more than half of the people in the village are illiterate. So in the earlier feudal era, it was even more impossible to understand the records.

Before the first generation of priests, the family tree in the village was also in a mess, and there was no clean order behind it. Looking at the names of the previous priests, they had the same surname as the first generation.

After serving as a priest, one must never marry for life, but it can be seen that for so many years, almost only the priests have monopolized the cultural inheritance. In the past, there would occasionally be one or two scholars in the village, but there has been no such thing since then.

The entire village has had only one way out of farming for thousands of years. Of course, as I said before, the strangeness here has always been a stable and bumper harvest, and it has nothing to do with natural disasters, man-made disasters or dynasty changes.

Lu Qingjia said: "From the initial ceremony to the maintenance of the status quo in the following thousand years, it is not difficult to see that the beginning of everything was the handwriting of the first priest."

"Then since he specially cultivated an heir, other villagers will forget the original reason over time because they are illiterate and ignorant, but the priest lineage will not."

"A lot of problems can be found by digging along the resumes of the first generation priests."

"First of all, he has a different surname from that of the village. As the first priest and the first person to propose living sacrifices, his symbol in the village is no different from the endorsement of God. His resume is naturally recorded."

The screen of the projector the size of a bee has become a record of the life of the priests in the past.

"The first priest lived in seclusion here with others in XX, and married a woman in the village the following year. After less than five months of marriage, the woman gave birth to a baby girl, and less than one month later, the baby girl and the black cat raised at home They were hanged on the tree at the entrance of the village together."

"Is this priest trying to avenge his daughter?" A player interjected: "Could it be that in those days patriarchal women were favored, who gave birth to a daughter and were disliked by the elders, so she killed her directly? The first time of sacrifice was after his daughter died. Half a year ago, the village had already suffered from a severe drought and there was no harvest, so it must have been very difficult when the daughter was born, and it is not strange to kill a girl."

Don't say that at that time, even now, this kind of thing still exists in many places.

Someone else objected: "I don't think so. The child comes out after five months of marriage. Doesn't that mean that you want to be a father?"

"Maybe the priest killed the child, because he was too narrow-minded, so he took revenge on his wife and the whole family."

"Then you don't have to wait that long, right? You gave birth to a child in five months after getting married, which means that you were pregnant when you got married, so you can't see it? You really don't want that child, and you don't have to wait until it's born."

A group of people held their own opinions, but Lu Qingjia said, "That's not the point."

Everyone was shocked, they didn't expect to get such an answer, after all, according to the records, the baby girl's death was the beginning of everything.

"Look at the genealogy from back then." Lu Qingjia said: "The record of the priest is that he lived in seclusion here hand in hand with others. What about the other people?"

"At that time, apart from the priests, there were three families with the surname outside the village, but they could all be traced back to their ancestors and settled here."

"However, in those few years, apart from the priests, there was no record of any people with foreign surnames moving in. On the contrary, there are records about the master's life in the handbooks of the apprentices of the first priests."

"The other party often worships at the back mountain—that is, the place where we found the mountain god flower yesterday. On a certain day every year, he will sit there for a day without water and rice."

"The time of this day is also interesting. It turned out to be the day he got married."

The surrounding players got a taste: "You mean, the priest was originally a wild mandarin duck who came here to live in seclusion with his lover."

"As a result, because he is talented and literate, he is favored by the big family in the village. If the priest and his lover don't follow suit, he is likely to be set up by someone to make rice and cook it. He is a foreigner, and he slept with a girl in his village. Irresponsible would be right to kill you at that time."

"So the priest compromised and got married, but the lover couldn't bear the shock and died on the day of the wedding. Since he died near that family, he probably committed suicide."

"This incident dealt a great blow to the priest, so he hated his wife and her family members, and even killed the newborn child. Through the drought at that time, he encouraged the villagers to offer sacrifices to the children of his wife's family. The whole family will lose their sons and grandchildren, and the family will be destroyed?"

Based on the data records and Lu Qingjia's reminder, everyone concluded in a big way.

Lu Qingjia nodded: "The priest is the only knowledgeable person in the village. It is recorded that he is fond of Fengshui and metaphysics. If driven by hatred, he wants to use natural disasters to confuse the villagers, build his own reputation, and retaliate against the Yue family, isn't it? What a problem."

"However, I didn't expect that the living sacrifice was really useful, and the effect was immediate. The villagers believed it. Perhaps the priest also saw other hopes in it, but when he presided over it, he told the so-called The wish made by the mountain god may not be what the villagers hoped, so that the weather in the village will be smooth."

"This logic is quite reasonable, but there are too few clues after all, and many places are made up by guesswork, which is not very tenable." Some players questioned: "After all, 1000 years have passed."

Lu Qingjia smiled: "As long as it's a copy of the game, no matter how long time passes, it's impossible to really bury the truth."

"Records may be missing, but as I said at the beginning, not everyone in the village is kept in the dark."

"The first-generation priest specially cultivated an heir, and let this deception continue for thousands of years. There must be something he wants to accomplish even if he dies."

"A person's life is always limited, so he has to let others complete the unfinished work for him. Now, since a group of young people in the village fled, it is no longer a traditional sacrificial issue."

"After all, if the hard target is just offering boys and girls, as long as the villagers do it every three years? But the rules that have been formed for thousands of years are obviously more than that."

"People outside are cursed and those who stay in the village don't really care about it. I haven't heard of any curses that have spread to the village. As long as they maintain the offerings, they can just sit on the sidelines. Then why did the village chief and the others bother with it? Cursing? Greeting us with dead cat babies, making oil lamps, and sticking spells under our beds."

"The direction of all this shows that the motivation and atmosphere of the whole village's sacrifice and the rules formed have long been different from the original intention. Other villagers may be stupid and don't know, but someone must know."

"The priests of this generation?" Several people asked at the same time.

Lu Qingjia nodded, it was the man guarding the ancestral hall.

"Then let's go to him for proof now." Someone stood up and said, "I've tested it, and he's just an ordinary person. With our abilities, as long as we grasp the direction of the question, it's no problem to ask the truth."

"No, I've already asked." Lu Qingjia said, a puddle of mud appeared on the ground, and after it dispersed, it was the scene of the man being tied up and gagged.

No wonder Lu Qingjia brazenly said at the beginning that he had cracked everything, and it turned out that he had already confirmed it.

Now his words became more credible, and some players asked directly: "Then what is the curse law?"

"Excluding the person who died suddenly yesterday, you are the only one who has experienced the curse more than once. If you share it equally, this obviously does not conform to the law."

Lu Qingjia said: "You don't need to include me. My case has no reference value for finding the rules, but it will disturb your judgment."

"What did you say?"

"why?"

"Do all players have a different starting point?"

Everyone was a little shocked, because the game pays attention to absolute fairness, and according to the rules, the treatment of players should be similar, and this is one of the things that players care most about.

Lu Qingjia was targeted by a curse. Although the players were not outraged for him, the injustice was definitely worrying.

However, Lu Qingjia signaled everyone to calm down: "The reason why I was cursed was because my blood relatives had been in this game before, and it may be a curse inherited from that time, so it was not good for me from the beginning."

"But relatively, because I can unlock the truth of the dungeon more efficiently along the opponent's way of clearing the level, this is both a risk and a benefit for me, so there is no need to question the fairness of the game."

Of course, the real reason must be more than that, but there is no need for Lu Qingjia to say it.

But what he revealed was enough to surprise everyone.

Lu Qingjia continued: "The order in which the curses started was based on the order in which the oil lamps were made. The player who died yesterday was the first to collect body tissues and make lamp oil, so he was the first to die after returning to the village."

"I've already asked him the order." Lu Qingjia glanced at the man on the ground.

The man stared at him desperately trying to make a sound.

No one paid any attention to him, Lu Qingjia sent the order to the players, the ones who were at the top of the order were naturally worried, while those who were at the back were a little relieved.

But before he let go, he heard Lu Qingjia say: "But don't trust this order too much, after all, you can find a substitute for the dead ghost."

When Lu Qingjia said this, he looked closely at the expressions of the people around him.

In the stiff expression of everyone, he said: "As long as it is your turn, put the mountain god flower representing the sacrifice on other players, and someone will accept the curse for that round instead of you."

As soon as these words came out, everyone took a breath, and almost everyone took a step back, watching the teammates around them become vigilant.

There was only one person whose reaction was half a beat slow.

Lu Qingjia grinned, and the scalpel in his hand quickly slashed over, but was blocked when he was about to touch the opponent's skin.

Lu Qingjia wasn't surprised that he couldn't succeed with one blow. Silt had appeared at the opponent's feet without knowing when, and at the same time launched his powerful speed and melee ability, and attacked with a rhythm so fast that it was almost hard to distinguish with the naked eye.

It stands to reason that among the mid-level players present, Lu Qingjia is the most powerful. His current strength has surpassed many high-level players. This is stamped by two administrators.

With Lu Qingjia's level of attack and the entanglement of his ability, if he were an ordinary mid-level player, he would have been beaten into a puddle of meat by now.

His strength is the strongest in this dungeon, which is recognized by all the players present.

However, to everyone's surprise, the player who looked mediocre before was able to survive Lu Qingjia's powerful raid unscathed, and even dealt with it quite calmly.

After fighting for several moves, the opponent no longer pretended to be low-key, showing an expression of interest——

"Sure enough, as that person said, there should be no negligence in front of you."