In an escape game...

Chapter 6 Psychic Town

The old woman bowed her head, her silver hair hung down on her sagging face, and the outline of her face was blurred by ugly scars.

"That year, the town was haunted by ghosts and killed several people. People were in panic. The mayor was so anxious that he asked Taoist priests to do it several times, but it was useless. One day, a master passed by the town. He counted and said that there is a well in the town. The ghost is causing trouble, and you have to fill the well with beautiful young women to get the ghost away, otherwise the whole town will suffer.”

She paused for a moment, then continued with a sigh of relief: "Some people were killed every two days in three days. Everyone was desperate and decided to take a risk. The mayor of the town said that those who were selected as sacrifices could get a large amount of housing allowance.

"Widow Li is very good-looking, and her family is so poor that she can't tell the truth. In order to make her daughter have enough food and clothing, she voluntarily signed up and threw herself into the well."

"Sacrifice?" Yun Xubai raised his eyebrows: "How did I hear that her body appeared in the well for no reason, and was skinned?"

The old woman asked back, "Who said that?"

"The townspeople."

"That's right, you were deceived by them." The old lady sneered and shook her head: "Nowadays it is against the law to sacrifice a living person. Who dares to tell the truth? They are afraid of being held accountable, and they are afraid of paying the debt of life!"

Chen Han listened with relish, and asked: "Then what happened afterwards? What happened to the skinning?"

"No one knows." The old lady sighed heavily: "The next day everyone wanted to get her body up for a good burial, only to find that her skin had been peeled off. After that, the well ghost did not appear again, and the woman's grievances began She was killing her in the town. Everyone said that her skin was picked by the well ghost, and she became the well ghost's scapegoat, and she wants to find another scapegoat!"

"Hiss..." The old lady's tone was too gloomy, and she felt goosebumps all over her body, but she didn't feel the heat anymore: "Then what the master said was all bluffing?"

The old lady said: "It's just to cheat money."

Yun Xubai stroked the old lady's words, and concluded: "Widow Li voluntarily threw herself into the well for the settlement expenses, and the one who skinned her was the well ghost?"

The old grandma touched her blind eyes: "Yes."

"You said Widow Li has a daughter." Yun Xubai asked casually, "Where is her daughter now?"

The old grandma wiped the sweat off her forehead with the back of her hand, and said in a tired voice, "Take the money and leave Huojing Town with relatives."

Yun Xubai paced in the living room, and found that there was no trace of other people's life in the house, and there was no food in the kitchen: "Where are your family members, where did they go?"

Hearing the topic turned to herself, the old woman frowned and said in a hard tone, "They're all dead... The old lady is blind, I don't know anything else, you guys go."

After the old grandma finished speaking, she didn't care about their reactions, she stood up while supporting the table, and pushed them out of the house.

With a sound of "bang!", the door was closed tightly, like a grandmother's tightly pursed mouth.

A few people walked into the open space, and the breeze blowing on their faces dissipated the hot air from the house, and they finally felt refreshed.

Chen Han looked back at the wooden house, and muttered: "There is a ghost in the well, why doesn't this grandma move away, isn't she afraid to live here?"

Yun Xubai: "If it were you, under what circumstances would you continue to live in a haunted place?"

Chen Han thought for a while: "If ghosts don't threaten me, I can consider staying here."

"That's right, she didn't move away because Widow Li didn't threaten her." Yun Xubai said, "She knows how to restrain Widow Li."

Chen Han's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly, "Then let's go back and find out."

Yun Xubai slowly curled the corners of his lips: "You don't need to ask, I already know the answer."

Chen Han was startled, confused: "How do you know?"

Tian Dan also became interested, and his listless face glowed with life: "It has something to do with the overheated room? Don't be fooled, let's talk about it."

"It's relevant, and it's obvious." Yun Xubai said unhurriedly: "The weather is right now, but the stove is burning in the room to keep it dry. The old lady said she was afraid of the cold, but there was sweat on her forehead. She is a blind person who lives alone. But with candles."

"Fire!" Chen Han turned his thoughts around and said in a low voice, "Jing ghosts are afraid of fire?"

Yun Xubai nodded. He also suspected that Widow Li could only appear in places with water, but there was insufficient evidence, so he didn't mention it for the time being.

Tian Dan: "Water and fire are incompatible, and drowned ghosts are afraid of fire, which makes sense."

"You're so smart, I can't even notice such small details." Chen Han patted Yun Xubai on the shoulder: "You're so smart, wouldn't it be good to study hard and go to a top university? Online classes are even better for me!"

Yun Xubai was helpless: "Can you forget about this?"

"I will try not to mention it as much as possible in the future..." A smile appeared in Chen Han's eyes: "We can save many people by telling other players this information."

As soon as the words fell, Jiao Huai sneered coldly: "You are too stupid."

Chen Han leaned over and looked at him: "Young master, why did I provoke you again?"

Jiao Huai snorted coldly and ignored her.

"Xubai trusts us, that's why he has no reservations about us." Tian Dan said in a gentle tone: "People are sinister, and you don't know other players, so it's a bit risky to tell all the clues."

Yun Xubai nodded in agreement, thinking: Actually, I also have reservations about you.

The fact that he bound two props is still a secret.

"I was too reckless." Chen Han was convinced, and said seriously: "Then let's not talk about it first, and then observe and observe."

"Children can be taught." Tian Dan turned his face slightly, looked at the smoky room under the sun, and then got back to business: "The old grandma seems to have something wrong."

Chen Han looked at this and that: "What's the problem?"

"Her rhetoric is full of loopholes, half-truths and half-false." Yun Xubai pointed to the lonely well: "Put yourself in another way, would you commit suicide for the sake of settling down and let your young daughter live with relatives?

"If you are a well ghost, you can be freed if you find a scapegoat. Will you kill someone and get free quickly, or keep killing people?"

"It's easy to understand what you said." Chen Han had an expression of sudden realization: "What the old grandma said doesn't make sense."

Jiao Huai laughed like a little fox: "If it's me, I'll keep killing it, it's fun."

"What can you use to save your three views?" Chen Han eagerly wanted to give Jiao Huai an ideological and political lesson, but unfortunately the conditions did not allow it.

Jiao Huai: "My three views are quite upright, even more upright than my five senses."

Judging from his expression, he is quite proud and complacent.

I don't know where I learned this unserious words, which made Yun Xubai and Tian Dan laugh.

Chen Han ignored Xiong Zi, she chased Yun Xubai and asked, "Why did the old lady lie?"

"People often lie for profit." Yun Xu's vernacular words were light but heavy: "The townspeople told the first lie, and the blind old lady told the second lie. In this dungeon, no one said Truth."

Several people were silent at the same time.

From the moment they entered the town, they were surrounded by the lies of NPCs. The truth was mixed with lies, and which one was true and which was false could only be verified by themselves.

The few people walked under the shade of the tree and stopped. The wind blew the leaves, making a slight "rustling" sound, and the mottled light spots fell on the ground, which was stepped on by Jiao Huai's foot.

Yun Xubai grabbed a leaf and rubbed it between his fingers: "One more thing, I found that there is no food in the grandmother's kitchen."

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