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Bai Jing and Chu Lingya watched those people put down the five corpses hanging from the tree.

Five corpses, three men and two women, two old and three young, including Granny Mei and Uncle Biao, who they found missing last night.

"How did this happen? Why are they all dead..." Chang Yuxin murmured in a low voice, perhaps overly stimulated, already a little dazed.

Bai Jing gave him a tug, and Chang Yu came back to his senses: "What's wrong?"

"Gu Mingxuan and Chen Kang," Bai Jing said, "are they a bit strange?"

Chang Yuxin looked over, and sure enough, he found that Gu Mingxuan and Chen Kang were also mixed in the crowd of spectators. Strangely, these two people changed their outfits today, one was wearing a homespun jacket and a pair of cloth shoes, the other was wearing loose stripes T-shirt and sports shorts, and a pair of muddy slippers on the feet.It's a bit strange to think of the fashionable dresses of the two of them in the past two days.

Bai Jing walked over and took the initiative to say hello: "Good morning."

Gu Mingxuan and Chen Kang glanced at him and nodded: "Hello, hello, Ah Xin is here too."

Chang Yuxin nodded absently at the two of them.

Bai Jing said, "What happened?"

Gu Mingxuan said: "It scared you, I'm so sorry."

Chen Kang also said: "Yeah, I don't know what's going on these two days, alas...it wasn't like this in our village before."

Bai Jing and Chang Yuxin thought they heard it wrong, Bai Jing said, "Your village?"

"Huh?" Gu Mingxuan said, "Yes, we are in Yumen Village."

Bai Jing: "Didn't you take the bus with me to travel here?"

Gu Mingxuan and Chen Kang looked at each other, seemed to be stunned, and then laughed.

Gu Mingxuan, who was wearing a homespun jacket, said: "The young people in your city just like to joke. I have lived in this village for more than 50 years. How did I become a tourist?"

"Yes," Chen Kang also said, "My father and I are both natives of Yumen Village, Ah Xin knows."

Chang Yuxin's complexion changed: "What are you talking nonsense about, how can I..."

Bai Jing covered Chang Yuxin's mouth, "I'm sorry." He said, forcefully dragging Chang Yuxin aside.

"What are you stopping me for, they both seem crazy!"

"Look at those corpses." Bai Jing said with a serious expression on his face.

At this time, the villagers had dispersed quite a bit, only a few people were left to watch the fun, and it was the old Wang and Qiu Qiang who came to pretend to be the corpse last time, and Chang Yuxin followed Bai Jing's gaze and couldn't help being stunned.

"How come..." His voice couldn't help trembling.

In broad daylight, the faces of the five people they had witnessed just now all changed, and the faces of the two old and the three young also became the faces of young people.Wearing ill-fitting clothes, these young men were terrified and died in a miserable state.

"This... What the hell is going on here? Granny Mei and the others have changed their appearance!" Chang Yuxin was obviously shocked and almost collapsed, "No, I'm going to find out."

Bai Jing dragged Chang Yuxin back: "How many books are there in the Bai Jingjing series?"

"Counting the 37 episodes." Chang Yu was stunned for a moment, "Hey, what did I just say?"

Bai Jing pulled him to hide beside him: "Do you have a car?"

Chang Yuxin: "Does a bicycle count?"

Bai Jing was helpless: "That's fine." He said, "Don't you want to know what's going on? Let's follow that police car."

"Following the police car?" Chang Yuxin was taken aback, "Of course the police car is going back to the town police station, why are we following there?"

Bai Jing pulled him to get the car: "Correct your mistake, the Bai Jingjing series has a total of 38 volumes including extra episodes."

"How is that possible!" Chang Yuxin retorted immediately, "I bought every book as soon as it came out. I was there when Teacher Bai Jing posted her work on her private blog. I am a loyal fan! Eh?"

It wasn't until Chang Yuxin came to his senses that he realized that Bai Jing had come over just now and kissed him on the forehead, and then he blushed from his face to his chest with a bang, of course, his chest couldn't be seen. Only the flushed neck proved it.

"Reward your support." Bai Jing laughed, "I just want to tell you that there are originally five jewelry sub-series in the Bai Jingjing series, "Sapphire Buckle", "Ruby Heist", "Golden Skull", "Cat Eyed Girl" And "Blood Wreath", the last one has been drawn long ago, but because it doesn't agree with the publishing house's philosophy, coupled with policy restrictions, it has been lying on the hard drive."

Chang Youxin's eyes slowly opened wide: "It's really like this!"

"Huh?" This time it was Bai Jing's turn to be surprised, "Have you heard of it?"

"No," Chang Yuxin said, "I thought that when I watched "Sapphire Button", there seemed to be some foreshadowing in it, as if there was a contrast, so I vaguely wondered if there would be a sister chapter, so "Sapphire Button", "Blood Button" Ying Luo" and they were created together, right?"

Bai Jing nodded, and couldn't help but rub Chang Youxin's hair again.

"They're gone, let's hurry."

"Hey." Chang Yuxin pushed the mountain bike out, and Bai Jing was about to take over the handlebars when Chang Yuxin stopped him, "You, you sit in the back." He said with a flushed face, "This kind of Whatever we men can do."

Bai Jing: "Pfft."

The more Bai Jing looked at Chang Yuxin, the more he felt cute. He nodded obediently and said, "Well, I'll listen to you."

So, the two quietly attached a police car to a mountain bike.

Maybe it's because it's so rare to chase four with two wheels, or maybe it's because the two of them are just lucky, the police car ahead has been driving calmly, and no one has noticed the police car behind them. Two people followed.Soon, Bai Jing and Chang Yuxin realized that the direction of the car was wrong.

"Why are they driving into the mountains?" Chang Yuxin kicked a few times, turned a corner, and stopped.The police car ahead had stopped at the foot of the mountain, and Lao Wang and Qiu Qiang got out of the car.

Coincidentally, this is the clearing in the forest where Chang Yuxin and Bai Jing visited last time. The two of them threw the mountain bike aside and crept through the woods. The door opened, and a cart was pushed out from inside.

"No wonder the door of that house is open." Bai Jing thought to himself.

Then, they saw the two unload the five corpses they got today one by one, remove the body bags, and load them on the cart instead.

It's strange to say that the corpses of five adults weigh at least a hundred catties, but it seems that they move the corpses with ease. Needless to say, Qiu Qiang is a young and middle-aged man, even Lao Wang who looks thin The body can easily move a grown man to the car.

"Why are they still changing?" Chang Yuxin was dumbfounded.

It was just faces before, but the clothes on the five youths released from the body bags are also slowly changing, which of course also includes the body shape wrapped in the clothes.Among them, Granny Mei has changed the most. At the beginning, she was a grey-haired, kind-hearted elderly person. She has just gradually changed into a fashionable girl with gray-green hair and exaggerated eyeliner in the square. Now she can even be seen She has bare arms and a butterfly tattoo on her shoulder.

"Why do I feel as if I've seen her somewhere?" Chang Yu muttered wonderingly.

"Bai Jingjing's 5th anniversary special press conference. I also have a little impression of her." Bai Jing recalled that this reader is said to be living abroad and is the lead singer of a band. This time, he came back to China specially to participate in the press conference. .

"That's right!" Chang Yuxin suddenly realized, "She was sitting in the front row at that time, I was so envious of me." Having said that, he paused slightly.

"Bai Jingjing press conference?" Chang Yuxin shook his head, "Xin...I am...Chang Yuxin, from the Criminal Investigation Team of Changle City Public Security Bureau, I...I and Chu Lingya are buddies..." Chang Yuxin Yuan Xin looked at Bai Jing in shock: "You...I, why am I here?"

Bai Jing breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that you finally remembered.He said: "You were brought in by Bai Jingjing's game. Chu Lingya and I both came in to look for you, but we got separated."

Chang Yuxin felt as if struck by lightning: "Damn it, then I've been..."

"Follow up first." Bai Jing said.

Lao Wang and the others started to move, one of them was pulling the cart, the other was following, and they were walking up the mountain.

"Where are they going?"

"If I'm not mistaken, Kamiya."

Although Chang Yuxin's memory seems to have revived, it is obviously still a little confused: "Why are they going to the Shenju, it is the human altar of the Great God Yuming."

"Probably offering sacrifices." Bai Jing said, "I have a guess, do you want to listen?"

Although it was asking for opinions, Bai Jing obviously knew what answer Chang Yuxin would choose, so he continued directly.

"There was a problem with the game. All the people who tried the game after the press conference were sucked into the game world, some earlier and some later, just like you and me. The first group of people who came in were directly assimilated by the game and became After that, people who came in one after another, such as me, Gu Mingxuan, and Chen Kang, became tourists. But the tourists are just a transition, and they will eventually become villagers. The two of them we saw just now should be transforming During the process, the appearance has not completely changed, but the clothing and memory have been replaced."

Speaking of this, Bai Jing couldn't help shivering slightly, because it meant that all the villagers he had seen since he came in were probably outside gamers, that is, his readers.

Chang Yuxin lowered his voice: "So those who died, after they died, their bodies slowly changed back to their original appearance? But why did they die?"

"I don't know, I can only guess." Bai Jing said, "It must be some kind of sacrificial ceremony. For example, some plants cannot be absorbed by the human body without treatment. It is a transformation process for us outsiders to become villagers. After the transformation is completed Then, they can be eaten and absorbed."

Chang Yuxin looked at Bai Jing: "Who was eaten, Great God Yuming?"

Bai Jing nodded: "Probably."

After walking secretly for a while, Lao Wang and Qiu Qiang in front finally stopped.

Bai Jing found that he was almost near the top of the mountain, and there was a dilapidated old building in the middle of the forest, which seemed to have been completely destroyed.The beams and columns collapsed, the wood was rotten, only a small part was still standing tremblingly, and the rest were all limp on the ground, and it looked like they had been burned by fire, and there were traces of flames in many places.

"How did Shenju become like this?" Chang Yu was surprised.

"What was it like?"

"Although it is old, it is in good condition." Chang Yuxin said, "This place is under the jurisdiction of the Presbyterian Church, and people come to clean it every day, to replace the fresh flowers and tributes in the house, to change the clean water, and there must be no trace of dust, because God doesn't like it." Dirty things." After Chang Yuxin finished speaking, he felt a little uncomfortable, the result of the coexistence of real memory and the memory instilled by the game made him a little split.

Bai Jing watched Lao Wang and Qiu Qiang's movements, they stopped the scooter, and then they stopped moving for a while as if they were waiting for something.

What are they waiting for?

Bai Jing looked at the sky, and was surprised to find that the sun in the sky was moving rapidly towards the west, as if someone had pressed the accelerator key for switching between day and night. In less than 10 minutes, the time here changed from morning to At noon, when the sun was in the sky, it quickly changed to evening, and a round of orange-red sunset hung over the forest, and it was about to set.

"They're waiting for the time."

Bai Jing understood, but then fell into doubt again.

"how come……"

"How could it be?"

"We thought that the time when we entered the game was before Qiu Qingyu married Yuming Shenjun. At that time, Yumen Village was still a village in the world, but it was not. The most original time in this world, everything started with Qiu Qingyu It's time for revenge."

At that time, the entire Yumen Village had been set on fire by Qiu Qingyu, and everyone in the Presbyterian Church who had done bad things died, even she herself was buried in the sea of ​​fire wearing her wedding dress.So the shrine they see now was destroyed by fire, so the house of Granny Mei and others they saw in the village last night was covered with thick dust and had been uninhabited for a long time, so they would never come across it Qiu Qingyu, the core character of the game, saw a pair of embroidered shoes that could move by herself.

"Ah! There has been a change!" Chang Yuxin pulled Bai Jing's hand.

When the last rays of the setting sun disappeared, it was as if some invisible hand cast magic on the ruined shrine during the day, and all the destroyed, decayed, dusty things seemed to be washed away by time. In the Qing Dynasty, accompanied by the sound of "clack" of the mortise and tenon structure and the sound of bricks and tiles being laid, the house quickly recovered, with fresh paint and bright columns, white walls and red tiles, and soon, a carved beam and painted building, an extraordinary building appeared. In front of the two people.

The vermilion lacquered door opened suddenly, and the bright lanterns shone from the inside to the outside, illuminating the area brightly.

Only then did Lao Wang and Qiu Qiang carry and hold a few corpses, and walked in along the gate.

Bai Jing and Chang Yuxin didn't need to ask each other, they nodded in tacit understanding, and followed secretly.