When he got close enough, Ning Zishan suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the group of people, so he stopped and hid behind a tuft of grass. Through the gap in the grass, he saw that the group of people in the open space looked like Not a player.

Some of them were wearing coarse cloth short shirts, some were wearing double-breasted coats, in short, they did not look like modern people. A large group of them gathered on the side of a simple high platform built of wooden boards. On the high platform stood a stooped old man. .

The old man was wearing a gray gown like that worn by comedians, and he was listening to the villagers chatting about something in a hurry.

Because Ning Zishan is still some distance away from them, and these villagers all have a strange accent that he has never heard before, they are emotional and speak fast, Ning Zishan can only vaguely hear words such as "no", Words such as "what to do", "no more", "will die".

Just when Ning Zishan was about to observe secretly for a while, the old man on the stage suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction where he was hiding.

From such a long distance, Ning Zishan felt that the old man's cloudy gaze seemed to penetrate the grass where he was hiding and land on his face.

It was discovered!

Ning Zishan had a "thump" in his heart, and subconsciously shrank back to the grass. He didn't know why he had been trying to hide himself from just now, maybe it was because he hadn't seen a player so far that made him feel Uneasy, but he just instinctively felt that it would be unwise and dangerous to expose himself to the eyes of these villagers.

But things didn't go as expected, and soon he saw the old man bow his head and say something to the audience, and then four young men stood out from the crowd, turned around and walked towards the grass where Ning Zishan was hiding.

Under such circumstances, it was obviously not a wise move to hide any longer, so Ning Zishan simply stood up from behind the bushes and walked towards the villagers.

"I didn't eavesdrop on purpose, I just, uh..." Ning Zishan paused, "I just got lost."

In an instant, the villagers who had their backs to him turned their heads to look at him like a group of frightened meerkats. Ning Zishan was surprised to find that all the villagers were sallow and emaciated, with dry skin. It was stretched tightly on the fleshless skull, like those malnourished crops in the field. At first glance, it felt like a group of walking dead gathered for a meeting, which made Ning Zishan startled.

At the same time, the old man and the four young men walking towards him were obviously stunned for a moment, and all the villagers showed a look of joy in an instant.

The old man was supported down from the high platform, and surrounded by villagers, he walked towards Ning Zishan.

When the old man passed by, the four youths who were walking in front stepped back respectfully to make way for him.

Judging from the attitude of the villagers towards him, this old man should be the person with the highest status in the village.

Although the old man was covered with white hair and his whole face looked as rough as dry bark, his legs and feet were still very agile. After a while, he came to Ning Zishan and looked Ning Zishan up and down with an appraising gaze. Fan, then parted his dry lips, smiled and said to Ning Zishan in jerky Mandarin: "Young man, don't be afraid, I am the head of this village, we will not hurt you. Where are you from?"

Ning Zishan felt that the village head in front of him should be trying to express his friendliness and kindness to him, but when he smiled, those deep wrinkles made his face look like an overly dry field, as if he would only need a little more With a little force, the skin cut by the deep ravines will fall from the face.

The level of horror of this smiling face was comparable to that of the old beggar in the first dungeon, making Ning Zishan take a step back involuntarily.

The village chief didn't care when he saw this, and murmured: "It's okay to get lost..."

Ning Zishan frowned slightly, looked at him vigilantly, but heard the village chief say: "If you get lost, you should rest in the village first..."

Just when the village chief wanted to continue talking, there was an uproar from the villagers behind him. Ning Zishan looked up and saw several people walking towards the village from the entrance of the village.

Among the group of people, Ning Zishan saw Ke Xu who stood out from the crowd at a glance, and the heart that had been hanging all this time finally fell back into his stomach.

Ke Xu obviously saw Ning Zishan who was surrounded by villagers at a glance, and walked straight towards Ning Zishan with long legs, and at the same time, he did not forget to show him a faint smile.

Ning Zishan counted, there were seven people who came in from the entrance of the village, including himself, this dungeon is the same as the previous one, there are eight people in total, and the last one is a very thin middle-aged man, shivering all the time , making the already thin him look even thinner, like a frightened bird, Ning Zishan even suspected that if someone suddenly yelled now, he would be able to scare him to death.

Looks like he should be a newcomer.

The villagers didn't seem surprised by the sudden arrival of so many strangers with different costumes from them. On the contrary, when each of them looked at the group of visitors, it was like watching a group of babies falling from the sky. There was a kind of crazy joy on the brows, and the eight people were quickly surrounded in the middle.

Even the cloudy eyes of the village chief suddenly brightened.

Anyone who is looked at with such a strong target will feel somewhat uncomfortable, and several people in the team can't help showing a look of disgust.

Perhaps aware of their repulsion, the village chief scanned the villagers with stern eyes, and then explained: "You may have seen it on the way here. Our village is shrouded in thick fog all the year round, and there are very few Outsiders came in, this time there are so many outsiders here, everyone is very excited, so it is inevitable that they are a little more enthusiastic, but the people in our village have absolutely no malice towards you, please rest assured."

After the village chief finished speaking, the villagers' gazes on the crowd were indeed restrained a lot, but Ning Zishan could still feel that the villagers were still secretly looking at them from the corner of their eyes, like crocodiles crouching at the bottom of the water. The eyes, not so much enthusiasm, are more like hunger.

Ning Zishan frowned uncomfortably, as if a big stone was suddenly pressed against his chest, making him feel stuffy and uncomfortable.

At this time, there was a sudden feeling of being touched on the little finger, itchy.

He looked down and found that it was Ke Xu secretly hooking his little finger with his little finger.

Ning Zishan's forehead twitched, and he raised his hand to slap Ke Xu's restless paws away.

Not two seconds later, Ke Xu's dishonest claws stretched out again, and this time, he directly hooked Ning Zishan's little finger tightly with his little finger.

Ning Zishan tried to twitch outwards, but because there were too many people around, he didn't dare to move too much. After two or three twitches, he couldn't save his finger from Ke Xu's clutches, so he had to give up struggling and let him go. up.

Ke Xu, who had succeeded in his plot, suddenly turned his head and gave him a quick wink, then turned his head back as if nothing had happened before Ning Zishan's attack.

Ning Zishan was about to be laughed at by him, but the stone that was pressing on his chest disappeared in an instant, and all the discomfort disappeared at this moment.

Then Ning Zishan heard the village head ask again: "Are you... all lost?"

No one spoke, and after a while, a tall girl in the team, with shoulder-length hair and a very temperamental sister, Fan Meili, nodded and replied instead of everyone: "Yes."

"Ah..." The village chief nodded in understanding. It sounded ridiculous for so many people to get lost together, but both the village chief and the villagers believed this statement as easily as if they hadn't noticed the sense of disobedience.

Seeing this, Yujie continued to ask tentatively: "Old man, we want to leave the village, can you show us the way?"

The village chief squinted his eyes when he heard the words, as if he was very dissatisfied with her words, and he said after a while: "You can't leave yet."

As soon as the village chief finished speaking, a small voice exclaimed, "Why?!"

Ning Zishan followed the prestige and found that the thin middle-aged man was the one who made the sound. The middle-aged man stuck his neck, and as soon as he asked the question, everyone looked at him in unison, and suddenly turned his head again. She shrank back and returned to a shivering quail.

"Don't get me wrong, it's not that we won't let you go, but that you can't get out of the village at all." The village chief explained: "As I said just now, our village is shrouded in thick fog all the year round, and now it's foggy every year. When it is at its thickest, the village is surrounded by mountains and forests, and the terrain is complex, even the locals will get lost if they go out now, let alone you outsiders."

Speaking of this, the village chief paused, his eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, as if savoring something, and then continued: "But don't worry, you are not completely unable to leave, and the village will hold a celebration in seven days. Every year when the celebration is held, the fog that covers the village will dissipate for two days, so everyone can stay in the village for the time being, and leave after the celebration is over and the fog clears."

celebration?Ning Zishan raised his head and looked at Ke Xu. Just as he was about to ask a question, Yujie who asked the question before said, "What celebration?"

The village chief looked up at her, grinned, and said in a fascinated tone: "The celebration of growing meat."

A celebration of meat?What kind of weird thing is this?Could meat grow out of the ground like a plant?Ning Zishan thought, this is really unheard of.

After hearing this sentence, the others also showed a puzzled look like Ning Zishan.

The village chief seemed unwilling to say any more, but told them that if they wanted to know how to grow meat, they could wait seven days to join them in the celebration.

After that, the eight people were taken by the village head and arranged to live in the largest house in the village.

The house is located at the end of the village. It seems that no one has lived in it for a long time. The vermilion gate has long faded in the wind and sun, and the tiles on the white wall and black tile courtyard wall are also broken, piled up in a mess in the corner , a thick layer of fly ash fell.

Those who walked in front helped them open the door. The first thing that caught everyone's eyes was a stone screen wall with a large relief of the word "Fu" in the middle.

Bypassing the screen wall is a large and spacious yard. There are some broken furniture and broken pots and tiles in the yard. Although it looks a bit dirty, it is not overgrown with weeds anyway.

Through the observation along the way, compared with the mud tile houses of other villagers in the village, this house is indeed the best house in the village.

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Caught a bug.

Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated the nutrient solution~

Thanks to the little angel who cast [Mine]: 1 piece of sugar;

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated [nutrient solution]:

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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