The world inside and outside [Unlimited Streaming]
Chapter 21 (1)
Lu Yanli glanced at the backs of the pair of sisters, then turned and entered the elevator.
The air in the elevator gradually cooled down, and the liquid dripped.
Lu Yanli felt some itching on his neck, similar to the feeling of hair being scratched lightly. He lowered his head slightly and found a few strands of black hair hanging out of thin air on his neck.
The mirror in front of him gradually blurred, but his figure could still be vaguely seen. The part that should be the front face was blocked by a head covered with long black hair.
A corpse was hanging upside down from the top, looking directly at Lu Yanli.
But from Lu Yanli's gaze, he could only see his pale face in the mirror under the cold light, and the touch on his neck seemed to be an illusion.
He didn't care too much, didn't say anything, the elevator stuttering and the flickering lights didn't change his face. In the end, he returned to the floor where he lived safely, unlocked the door, and made dinner as usual.
At night, he was sitting on the sofa watching TV. There have been more and more strange news recently. The hostess on the screen was reading the report, and suddenly opened her mouth and swallowed the head of the partner next to her. Then she seemed to be reacting. During the live broadcast, he covered his mouth and showed a shy smile: "I'm really sorry, but he always laughs at me with a big mouth, and I'm not happy, everyone should be able to forgive me, right?"
Lu Yanli nodded, so the hostess on the screen smiled with satisfaction and continued to talk about the news.
A figure fell from outside the window, screaming terribly.
Lu Yanli ignored him and focused on watching TV. After a short while, another identical figure fell down and let out the same scream.
After the same amount of time passed, he heard the scream again, and it jumped countless times throughout the night.Early the next morning, Lu Yanli went out to work, but the ground in front of the apartment gate was clean and there was nothing.
It seemed that no less than a hundred jumping incidents last night were all illusions.
Lu Yanli walked to the nearby subway station, and passed a park on the way. In the park, people dressed in red and white were sitting quietly, and they turned out to be a red and white yin and yang fish.
"Today, for the sake of our all-knowing and all-powerful Lord... I will forever praise Him and live with Him forever in the Holy Kingdom..."
The leading man finished his prayer aloud, and the next second, there was a "boom" in the park, and a huge explosion occurred.
Lu Yanli had already stepped into another block around the corner. Hearing the sound of the explosion, he continued to walk forward without turning his head, and entered the subway station.
Lu Yanli is a reporter and has a regular cooperative news agency. Today is the day to submit the manuscript.He came to the company on time and entered the superior editor's office.
"How is it? Did you bring the news?" The boss was eating snacks, his little finger joints were crunching, and he stared at Lu Yanli maliciously.
Lu Yanli nodded: "I brought it." After finishing speaking, he placed a USB flash drive and a thick envelope on the table.
The boss put down the snack packaging bag, picked up the photos and checked them one by one, and nodded approvingly while looking at them: "Not bad, not bad, you even took pictures of the process of human beings transforming into zombies... Huh? Lan Zhiyu has been dead for decades You were able to capture her news, it seems that this time we will definitely get the first place this year!"
The boss praised the other party well, and then invited him to eat snacks, but Lu Yanli ignored him.The boss finished the plate of small white bones by himself, and then continued to assign tasks to him.
"Some employees of our newspaper office are really useless. They will die after two or three interviews. You are more durable. In this way, next week, you can interview this village."
He smiled and looked at Lu Yanli: "The ghost marriage custom in this village is very famous, and it has created a historical record for many years that all the girls were married as ghosts. Go and learn."
Lu Yanli didn't say anything, and agreed.
The world... the world has gone mad early on.
I don’t know when it started, maybe it originated from the first time humans heard the unknown maddening and confusing ravings from another world; maybe it started when the head of the condemned prisoner who was supposed to be executed suddenly appeared on the whole line one day on the necks of people on the street; perhaps it started with some unconscious small movement of human beings to explore unknown areas...
In short, since then, the world has gone crazy, ghosts that once existed only in horror stories have prevailed, and human life has been filled with bloody, twisted, cold corpses.
However, only weirdness is recovered, there are no gods, and human beings have no resistance. In other words, people in a state of chaos will not think of resistance, and almost welcome the new world with joy.
They no longer have wars, because it is meaningless to fight. Anyway, if you die today, you may show up next to your bedside; human beings abolished the death penalty for the same reason as above; no one dares to commit a crime, because the person who killed the next second Revenge is possible; people are no longer afraid of death, and the boundary between life and death is blurred...
They live in a world of true peace and happiness.
Lu Yanli stepped into the elevator and searched for information about the small village with his head down.
That village is called Honghe Village. It is said that the rules in the village are very strict. Anyone who violates the rules will be bloodletted and thrown into the river at the head of the village. Over time, the river has turned into a river of red blood...
As he was watching, the elevator he was riding in wobbled and suddenly fell crazily. The number on the elevator display screen decreased rapidly, and finally stopped at the number -18.
The elevator door opens.
There was raging fire outside the door, and the inverted blood pool above was seething and boiling, and heads were howling in the blood pool.
The floor was wrong, Lu Yanli didn't step out, he stood in the corner to avoid crowding other passengers.After a while, the elevator swayed and seemed to be full of people. The door of the car was closed and it rose slowly.
The strand of black hair wrapped around his neck again, and Lu Yanli remained motionless until the elevator reached the floor before stepping out.A woman was drawn out of the black hair and landed in front of him with a bang.
It was a woman with a big belly. She grabbed Lu Yanli's trousers, raised her head and smiled at him: "Hey... let's have a baby... have a baby, shall we?"
Lu Yanli didn't answer whether it was good or not. In this case, he couldn't answer directly, and the other party's hand holding his trouser leg was too tight, so he couldn't walk away.
Looking at the dark eyes that were still dripping water, Lu Yanli squatted down, took out the knife he carried with him and handed it to her, and stroked her stomach.
The woman took it in a daze, and suddenly understood something, stretched out her hand to cut her stomach, and took out one after another little babies with blue faces and swollen faces.
Soon, the little baby crawled all over the ground with its eyes closed. The hall was full of scarlet and twisted long umbilical cords, and Lu Yanli had already left.
Since he was going to Honghe Village, he naturally wouldn't delay. After returning home, he packed up his things and rested at home for nearly a week. When the time came, he just went out.
"What a coincidence, are you on a business trip again?" The twin sisters living upstairs stuck together and jumped out the door.
They are newly moved sisters, the elder sister is named Li Fangwan, and the younger sister is named Li Fangzhi. They have a very good relationship and stick together all the time.
Lu Yanli nodded, said goodbye to them, went out to take a taxi to the station, and boarded the train to Honghe Village.
"This mission is very strange. To live in Honghe Village for a full month?" Chen Zhenghao said, "Besides, the name of Honghe Village sounds uncomfortable for some reason."
"Maybe it reminds people of a red river, it's a bit... a bit like the feeling of blood flowing into a river." Ding Conglu, the girl sitting beside him, said with emotion, holding Chen Zhenghao's hand tightly, and she said seriously : "We can do it, don't give up!"
"Yes." Chen Zhenghao looked at his girlfriend's delicate face, and suddenly hugged her tightly, "Xiaolu, we must live on."
"Are you also going to Honghe Village?" Just as the two embraced each other tightly, a voice came.
Ding Conglu immediately broke away from her boyfriend's arms, and looked at the visitor with a little embarrassment: "Yes, we also went to Honghe Village. My name is Ding Conglu, and this is my boyfriend Chen Zhenghao."
The one who came was a tall and fit woman with wheat complexion, standing taller than Chen Zhenghao. She introduced herself, "My name is Shen Na."
Not long after, people came one after another. After counting, there were 12 people in total. The oldest looked to be in his forties, and the youngest was a high school student with an immature face.
"Now let's look back at the mission. Arrive at XX Station in XX City on October 444th. At eleven o'clock, board the No. [-] train to Honghe Village and live in Honghe Village for a full month. The mission deadline is October [-]th. From [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] on November [-]th, you must not leave the area of Honghe Village during this period, otherwise it will be regarded as a mission failure." Shen Na said.
She has a leadership aura, and she easily got the right to speak. There was a man who was not convinced, so he muttered why he listened to you.
Shen Na calmly said: "Everyone's goal is to survive, so it's best not to fight internally. If you have something to discuss, now everyone can talk about how many missions you have done, and then we will choose the one with the most times." based on experience.”
The questioning man froze: "Three times."
Ding Conglu and Chen Zhenghao were a little embarrassed, and whispered, "Twice."
In fact, they are newcomers, and this is only their second mission, but in order not to be discriminated against, they have discussed lying about it before.
"three times."
"twice."
"Six times." Unexpectedly, it was the youngest high school student named An Xingyu who said that he had experienced six missions.
Now everyone's eyes turned to him involuntarily, and they were all a little surprised.
Speaking of the so-called mission, I don't know when it started.They all inadvertently received some kind of consciousness, and that consciousness told them word by word that if they wanted to survive, they had to go to another world to do some tasks at a certain time.If you succeed, you can live, but if you fail...the consequence of failure is, of course, death.
No one believed it when they first received this kind of news, they just thought they were dreaming, but since then, they have repeated nightmares every night, dreaming that they will experience various ways of death because they do not perform tasks , That kind of pain makes it hard to believe that this is a dream.There used to be some people who didn't believe in evil, didn't arrive at the designated place to gather when the time was up, and died suddenly on the spot.
After several trials, they had no choice but to follow the guidance of that consciousness and obediently do the task.And the number of people doing missions each time is generally not too small. They realize that there are many people in the world who have encountered the same thing as themselves, so this group of people established a secret website by themselves, and through the oral Word of mouth, mutual exchange of experience on the site.
After integrating the descriptions of other taskers on the website, they found that most of the tasks were related to spooky horror events, of all types, and those ghosts were definitely not like those in ordinary novels that could be eliminated. If they don't understand, they can only find clues to avoid death.
As for the other world where the mission is performed, on the surface it looks similar to his own world, but after the mission actually starts, that world will become dangerous, and every move may put him to death.
The quests they do are not like some infinite flow novels, they can get rewards after completing the level, the only thing they can get is that after returning from the quest world, any trauma caused by the quest can be restored, and it will not affect reality. Life.And, regardless of the length of the task, in reality it only takes less than one second. After the task is completed, those who come back alive can continue to live normally, and those who fail will die on the spot.
Therefore, An Xingyu, who has done six missions at a young age, is really amazing.
Ding Conglu couldn't help asking him, "Then when did you start doing the mission?"
An Xingyu glanced at her with almost inorganic eyes, and said word by word: "NO.14 carried out its first mission in January this year."
Calculated, the frequency of once in the past two months.
When is this the end...
Everyone was silent for a moment, and Shen Na said, "Eight times."
The person who had questioned it just now became even more silent, and felt a lot of comfort in his heart.
"Wait a minute, are you the one on the website... The tall building is about to collapse? Last time I saw it, I have done eight missions, and after the eighth mission came out, I posted an experience sharing post, let us be careful of NPCs."
Generally speaking, they only need to be wary of local residents who may be ghosts pretending to be ghosts, and weird rules that may be violated at any time.If the local residents of the different world were determined to be human beings, no one would pay much attention to them.
Instead, they are happy to use the native population to find their way.Because they regard those people as tool people that can be used in the game, even if those local residents are like themselves, can talk, laugh and have their own thoughts, most people still call them NPCs.
It's like numbing yourself, it's just a game.Those people are all NPCs, so you can use them to live with peace of mind.
Shen Na: "It's not me."
"Isn't it you? Who would it be?"
"There are so many people on the website, I must not be the only one who has implemented it eight times." Shen Na said.
Just when they were curious, a voice came from the corner: "It's me."
A stern man stood up and walked among them, "I posted it."
He took a look at everyone, and thought that the ghost could not be replaced by an ordinary person at this time, he was a little relieved, and said, "Let me introduce myself, my name is He Lou."
In this way, the executors became thirteen.
While there was still time, An Xingyu asked, "Excuse me, what do you mean by being careful with NPCs?"
"Literally." He Lou's face was still a little pale.
Although he recovered physically after returning to the world, his psychological shadow is still there. From time to time, he worries about when his lower limbs will be amputated again.
"Have you ever thought that those NPCs are living people with their own thoughts just like us, how could they be easily used by us?"
It looks like he suffered a big loss from the NPC.
He Lou didn't say much, he was doing his utmost to remind others, but this kind of attitude made other people somewhat uneasy.
At exactly eleven o'clock, the train came slowly from the night and stopped in front of them, with warm light from the windows.
The door of the carriage in front of him opened directly, and everyone rushed in.
As imagined, there was no one in the carriage, they sat in random places and chatted in twos and threes.
He Lou watched the rapidly receding black scene outside the window, and suddenly remembered that man, his eyelids twitched.
Generally, the frequency of doing tasks is not too frequent, once or twice a month, but judging from the experience shared on the website recently, the time interval between the same person doing tasks has been shortened recently.
Take him as an example, but he received a new task within a week.
I don't know what will happen this time...
Unknowingly, all the passengers felt drowsy and fell asleep one after another. When they woke up, there were more voices around them.
"...The train is about to arrive - Honghe Village, please bring your belongings..."
He Lou opened his eyes, he was sitting in a crowded train, and the stewards were walking up and down, reminding everyone to arrive at the station immediately.He quickly glanced around at the other passengers in the carriage, and then counted the number of fellow passengers with sharp eyes. After confirming that there were quite a few of them and they were all awake, he felt relieved and went to the door to wait.
Honghe Village, here we come.
"Hey, are you going to the village too?" A plain-looking uncle asked when he saw that he was going to get off the car.
He Lou smiled: "Yes, let's go there to play."
"That's good, I'm from Honghe Village, and I'll invite you to drink at home." The uncle was very enthusiastic, "Is this your first time here? Do you know the way? Is there a place to live?"
He Lou shook his head: "I don't know."
"Oh, it's so late, and there are so many of you. There is an accommodation next to the train station in the village. It's opened by my relatives. You can go and have a look. Tell me Li Youcai's name, and I'll give you a discount."
Talking all the way, the train arrived at the station, the door of the carriage opened, and the thirteen people got off together.
"Let's rest at the hotel tonight? Let's go to the village tomorrow. Everyone is here to have fun, so keep your spirits up."
Everyone had no objection to this, and a group of people entered the hotel, inquired about the price and paid.
Speaking of which, the magic of the two worlds lies in this. Even currencies can circulate with each other, and there will be no problems with documents.If it weren't for them never being able to find news about reality in this world, and unable to contact people in reality, maybe they really thought this was the same world.
A good night's sleep.
The next day, Shen Na got up and went downstairs, and saw An Xingyu chatting with the proprietress of the hotel. He was fair and weak, but also polite. He quickly coaxed the proprietress into a smile, and cheerfully told them the news about Honghe Village.
"How did we get the name Honghe Village? Let's talk about decades ago, there was a flood here. After the flood disappeared, the river changed. I don't know what happened. Experts said that the riverside There are some microorganisms in the soil, which dye the river red, which is very beautiful, you can go there to take pictures."
"Auntie, isn't it inconvenient for you to use water?"
"No, the water we drink is clean."
Shen Na interjected: "Where is that red river? I want to go and see."
The proprietress put down the rag for wiping the table, picked up the apron to wipe her hands, walked to the door with small steps, and pointed to them: "Here, take the main road to the west from here, don't make a turn, keep going straight, and you will see it. "
"Okay, thank you, Auntie." An Xingyu said, "By the way, Auntie, do you have any other interesting and delicious food here besides Honghe River? Can you introduce it?"
While talking, other people also came out one after another, gathered around and listened.
The proprietress was excited: "The mushrooms here are very delicious. You can buy some as gifts when you leave. Our black tea and paper lanterns are all very famous..."
"Oh, by the way, the village head's grandson is going to marry a wife tomorrow, and there will be wine tomorrow night, so you can have a drink."
"Ah, we're just here to play, will it bother you if we go like this?" Ding Conglu asked.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, our village is like this, everyone has to go when a family puts wine, if you don't go, it's against the rules. Besides, you just pack a white bag, you don't need to pack too much, just to show your heart."
"White envelope?" Isn't it usually a red envelope?Others are a little puzzled.
"Yes, it's a free bag. Our village chief's son has been away for three years, and he finally married a wife. The village chief is very happy today." The proprietress was also very excited. She went back to the counter and took out a large Stacking the white bag, "I watched that kid grow up and gave it away with my own hands. He can choose. Ordinary girls don't want it. Now it's fine. I heard that this guy married is a college student with a beautiful photo. He must be happy."
"Oh, by the way, you just came from outside, so you must not have prepared white bags? It doesn't matter, I can give them to you here."
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, but Shen Na was the first to take it, she said: "Thank you then, let's go ask for a wedding drink tomorrow."
Seeing that Shen Na took it, the proprietress smiled even more happily. She looked at the others and asked doubtfully, "Don't you want it?"
"Or...you don't want to go?"
I don't know if it was an illusion, but when she asked the second half of the sentence, even the temperature in the air dropped a bit.
"Go, of course!" The few people who didn't take it trembled, and hurriedly took the white bag.
It was only when I held it in my hand that the texture of the white bag was a bit rough, just like the paper money used for burning paper.
"That's good." The proprietress smiled meaningfully, "After receiving the white bag...you must go to drink, but don't lose it."
"Also, if you enter our Honghe Village, you must abide by the rules of our Honghe Village. You arrived too late yesterday, so I didn't tell you. Go drink tomorrow and ask the village chief to tell you."
It can be said that she turned her face and refused to recognize anyone, but she had a smile on her face, and no one could say that her attitude was bad.
Not all the players are on the first floor. At this moment, there is a young player who just got up and went downstairs. Seeing everyone gathered together, one of them whispered to him what happened and asked him to go to the proprietress to ask for a free bag .
But the strange thing is that the proprietress has a very bad attitude towards him, and her eyes are particularly disgusting: "You didn't wake up until so late... People like you are not welcome in our Honghe Village."
He didn't even give him the white bag.
The young man became angry and didn't dare to say anything more, but he still couldn't hold back and complained in a low voice: "If you don't give it, you won't give it."
After all, he stood aside unhappily.
The landlady's face became even more gloomy, and she squeezed out a few sinister words from between her teeth: "You don't respect the old and love the young, and such a person who doesn't know the rules, you can't stay in Honghe Village."
The young man's name was Yao Wendong, and he wasn't really daring. Seeing the lady boss's face turning pale, he was too timid to speak.Not long after, a few people who had slept late came downstairs, and the landlady's expression became even more sinister, and she glared at those people viciously, as if they had committed some heinous crime.
Not to mention the free bag, and they didn't even have to eat breakfast. Those who got up late regretted it, but there was no other way.After everyone gathered, the group headed towards the Red River to the west of the village.
Honghe Village is not big, but it looks very new, and there are antique buildings like tourist attractions everywhere. Along the way, they found that no matter who they met, they had to greet each other warmly, and they had to respond in turn, otherwise, The man must have cast down his face and stared at the impolite man.
Talking about the rules... He Lou recalled these few words, as well as the proprietress' reaction, and vaguely sensed something.
A road runs from the entrance of the village to the end of the village, and a dozen people walk together, which is quite conspicuous.He Lou's contemplation was not very noticeable. He lowered his head and searched for news about Honghe Village on the Internet.
It's been a bit cold recently, and the wind has been a lot stronger, making people feel a little chilled.One of them was wearing a hat, and the wind blew it up with a loud whistling sound, blowing his hat out and falling into the rice field beside him.The others didn't care, glanced at it, and looked away.
The man didn't care either. He squatted on the side of the road and reached out to reach it, but he couldn't reach it. He broke a branch and picked it up, but it didn't work.Looking left and right, there were not many villagers here, so he stepped on the field carefully and reached for it.
With the hat back in his hand, he patted the ashes and put it on himself.
When he wanted to go up again, he found that his legs could not be pulled out at all, and his body became stiff little by little, and he floated lightly towards the center of the rice field.
Oops, oops...it's a ghost!
help!help me! !
But that group of people has gone away, and no one has looked back.
His eyes widened, and he could feel his internal organs being emptied alive...
Shen Na turned her head inadvertently, always feeling that something was wrong, she was startled suddenly with a little number in her heart.
"Wait a minute! One person is missing!"
Hearing this, everyone immediately panicked and stayed where they were and counted carefully.
Really missing one!
who is it?
This is only the first day, has the ghost started to attack? !
There was some commotion among the big guys, and some of them turned pale, because the missing person, like them, didn't take the boss's wife's free bag!
He is missing now, probably already... Will they also end up in the same end?
At this moment, a man ran over panting heavily, waving from a distance: "Wait for me! Are you leaving too fast?"
It was the missing person.
People who were startled by their own imagination just now breathed a sigh of relief, complaining every word.
"Why did you run away? Why are you here so late?"
"That's right! We're scared to death. How can anyone fall behind casually?"
The man waved his hand, with an embarrassed expression on his face: "I just went to the toilet because I had a stomachache. I wanted to catch up soon, so I didn't tell you."
They passed by a public toilet not long ago. They heard that other people didn't care. They reiterated to each other that they were not allowed to act privately, and they had to notify others of where they went.
Shen Na looked at him a few more times, feeling suspicious, but she couldn't say anything, she just swallowed her words silently, and gradually walked away.
While talking, Honghe arrived.
You can smell the fishy smell of water from a distance, and there are many green plants in the village along the way, except that there is no grass near the Red River, and you can feel the strangeness when you look closer.
The color of the river water... is too thick, viscous, bloody red, and slow-moving.Not only was there no grass growing on the bank, but also no living things were seen in the river. It was as calm as stagnant water, without even a single bubble.
"Why does this Red River look a bit like..." Everyone had some bad associations, one of them muttered quietly, and the ending disappeared, and he didn't dare to finish talking.
But who doesn't know his unfinished meaning?
"Okay, let's take pictures now." Shen Na said.
"The proprietress just said that we can take pictures here."
She also said that we can go to the village chief's son's wedding banquet, who knows whether this "can" means it is necessary?
Many people figured out the key points and agreed.
They took photos, as if they had really become tourists, not only took single photos, but also took a few group photos.We didn't return to the hotel until it was almost time for lunch.
"Very good, everyone came to dinner on time today, and you are not late. In our Honghe Village, being late is the most annoying behavior." The proprietress applauded them and welcomed them into the box.One of the only waiters in the store brought the food from the kitchen.
An Xingyu said thank you, and He Lou said the same.
Shen Na then said something.
Seeing that all three of them said thank you, the others reacted and said something to each of them. Then the waiter stepped back and continued to serve food from the kitchen.
While the proprietress and the waiter were busy, He Lou said solemnly: "Remember, everyone, if you are in the village, you must abide by the rules of the village, keep it firmly in your heart, and don't violate it." He glanced at the woman who was smiling and pressing the calculator on the counter , lowered his voice, "Otherwise, you will bear the consequences."
Needless to say, the proprietress repeatedly emphasized the rules several times, and the reactions of the villagers on the road made them aware that something was wrong in this village.
Must... follow the rules.
The first thing served was the soup, which was the offal meat of an unknown animal, and it was fragrant.He Lou glanced at it, but didn't drink.
Afterwards, various dishes were served.The proprietress appeared again: "Everyone can go out for a walk in the afternoon and go to bed early at night. Honghe Village least welcomes those who don't go to bed after eleven o'clock in the evening."
Everyone listened to the proprietress very much. After eating, everyone discussed it and formed a small group to go out together.
He Lou and An Xingyu walked together, and they decided to visit the village chief's house first.
An Xingyu said as he walked, "Don't you think this village is too strict about the rules? It's so strict that you can't violate them at all."
He Lou nodded: "I checked on the Internet before, this village is a bit famous, and now it is developing tourism, and their village wants to be known as a village of etiquette, so they are particularly concerned about this aspect."
"But they care so much about the so-called rules, it has reached a point of strictness." An Xingyu frowned, "Besides, if they really pay attention to etiquette, then their..." He looked left and right, and only after confirming that no one was there. He whispered, "What is their ghost marriage?"
He Lou's gaze was deep for a moment, and he slowly shook his head: "Try not to say such things." He naturally also noticed the abnormality, but the tragedy of the last mission seemed to be still in front of him, and he couldn't forget it.
"Let's ask the village chief first."
The village head's house is not too eye-catching in the village, the same three-story small building, wooden antique building.White paper lanterns are hung on the eaves of the front and back of the house, and there are black and white greetings on the lanterns, which flutter in late autumn.
In the yard, there were two neat rows of half-person-high paper-stitched men, with pale faces, red mouths, crooked smiling eyes, and gorgeous clothes.
Looking at it from a distance, it is quite scary.
Today the village head happened to be at home, as the hotel proprietress said, he was in a particularly good mood recently, after He Lou chatted with him a few words, he followed suit and talked about his son's dark marriage.
Ghost marriages have existed since ancient times and gradually disappeared, but they still exist in some rural areas.It was firmly believed that if a young man or woman died without a consort, the soul of the deceased would be disturbed and the house disturbed.
The village chief obviously thought so too. He was all smiles, and he was very satisfied when talking about his daughter-in-law: "Actually, I wanted to get one when I first left, but there is no way. It's hard to find a woman with good qualifications these days. Okay. I got it recently, not long after I left, she is young and filial, my Tianbao must like it."
"It's okay for him to come and trouble me every day..." At this point, the village chief seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and immediately changed the subject.
The two pretended not to hear. In this Honghe Village where the rules are greater than the sky, if they stalked, they might be kicked out in a second.
"Will you come to watch the ceremony tomorrow? It's better if there are more people, and it's more lively."
He Lou: "Of course I would, as long as you don't dislike the fact that there are too many of us."
The village chief smiled and said, "No, no, I welcome polite and well-behaved young people like you the most."
A word of keeping the rules actually sent a chill down the spine of the two of them.
He Lou tentatively asked: "Village Chief, may I ask, what will happen to those who accidentally violated the rules?"
The village chief's face immediately sank: "This is not what you should ask."
He Lou saw that the situation was not good, and immediately made amends: "I'm sorry, village chief, we are outsiders after all, and we are not very familiar with the rules of the village. Where can I learn more? We want to learn more, so as not to make mistakes."
At this time, the village head looked much better. He got up and went to the house to take out a booklet and handed it to them: "Actually, the rules in our village are not so terrible, but the young people are too impetuous now. I think you two are very good. Now you can Hold your breath, there are too few people who are really polite."
He Lou smiled, sat for a while, and found an excuse to leave with An Xingyu.
After they left, they began to flip through the booklet.
The front is fine, it is nothing more than the rule that you must not go to bed later than eleven o'clock, and you must not wake up later than eight o'clock in the morning.The more strict you get to the back, you must not complain, you must celebrate other people's happy events, and you must help others in their funerals. There are even strict regulations on dressing time.
"How do you feel?" He Lou asked.
An Xingyu said: "It feels stricter than military training, training people into puppets."
If people live under such strict rules for a long time, they will either collapse or be domesticated.
After answering this sentence, the two were thoughtful.
There was preferential treatment on the first day, but in the evening, their treatment was not so good. The proprietress stared at them eating, talking, sitting, lying and walking, etc., and would sullen her face if something was wrong, threatening that they would not be welcome in Honghe Village.
In the evening, everyone went back to their rooms. The feeling that their words and deeds were strictly monitored all day made them extremely aggrieved.
In order to save money and safety, they decided to live in a room together.When one of them returned to the room, he couldn't help it anymore, and began to mutter and complain because the others couldn't hear him.
"What kind of broken village, a bunch of rules, and tourism, who will come..."
The person who lived with him quietly didn't speak, until the other party started talking about the marriage in the dark and lashed out, then looked up at the other party.
"What's the matter with you? You didn't say a word. After picking up a hat, you came back feeling weird." The man patted the other person's shoulder, and suddenly realized that the touch of his hand was not right.
Why doesn't he seem to have photographed each other's bones?
It's soft, and it can feel a little rough and rustling through the clothes.
Like... photographed on a pile of leather-wrapped straw.
"you……"
He watched in horror as his companion's facial features gradually flattened, as if the cut mouth opened and closed, and the blood in his body seemed to flow backwards, and he froze in place, no matter how much he screamed in his heart to run away, he still couldn't move.
"You don't obey the rules." The scarecrow's cut mouth opened and closed, and his voice was hoarse.
A few straws burrowed through all the holes in his head, filling his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, rustling, and burrowing into his body.
"If you don't obey the rules, you should be punished."
don't... save me...
He wanted to call for help, but couldn't, and then he felt
The air in the elevator gradually cooled down, and the liquid dripped.
Lu Yanli felt some itching on his neck, similar to the feeling of hair being scratched lightly. He lowered his head slightly and found a few strands of black hair hanging out of thin air on his neck.
The mirror in front of him gradually blurred, but his figure could still be vaguely seen. The part that should be the front face was blocked by a head covered with long black hair.
A corpse was hanging upside down from the top, looking directly at Lu Yanli.
But from Lu Yanli's gaze, he could only see his pale face in the mirror under the cold light, and the touch on his neck seemed to be an illusion.
He didn't care too much, didn't say anything, the elevator stuttering and the flickering lights didn't change his face. In the end, he returned to the floor where he lived safely, unlocked the door, and made dinner as usual.
At night, he was sitting on the sofa watching TV. There have been more and more strange news recently. The hostess on the screen was reading the report, and suddenly opened her mouth and swallowed the head of the partner next to her. Then she seemed to be reacting. During the live broadcast, he covered his mouth and showed a shy smile: "I'm really sorry, but he always laughs at me with a big mouth, and I'm not happy, everyone should be able to forgive me, right?"
Lu Yanli nodded, so the hostess on the screen smiled with satisfaction and continued to talk about the news.
A figure fell from outside the window, screaming terribly.
Lu Yanli ignored him and focused on watching TV. After a short while, another identical figure fell down and let out the same scream.
After the same amount of time passed, he heard the scream again, and it jumped countless times throughout the night.Early the next morning, Lu Yanli went out to work, but the ground in front of the apartment gate was clean and there was nothing.
It seemed that no less than a hundred jumping incidents last night were all illusions.
Lu Yanli walked to the nearby subway station, and passed a park on the way. In the park, people dressed in red and white were sitting quietly, and they turned out to be a red and white yin and yang fish.
"Today, for the sake of our all-knowing and all-powerful Lord... I will forever praise Him and live with Him forever in the Holy Kingdom..."
The leading man finished his prayer aloud, and the next second, there was a "boom" in the park, and a huge explosion occurred.
Lu Yanli had already stepped into another block around the corner. Hearing the sound of the explosion, he continued to walk forward without turning his head, and entered the subway station.
Lu Yanli is a reporter and has a regular cooperative news agency. Today is the day to submit the manuscript.He came to the company on time and entered the superior editor's office.
"How is it? Did you bring the news?" The boss was eating snacks, his little finger joints were crunching, and he stared at Lu Yanli maliciously.
Lu Yanli nodded: "I brought it." After finishing speaking, he placed a USB flash drive and a thick envelope on the table.
The boss put down the snack packaging bag, picked up the photos and checked them one by one, and nodded approvingly while looking at them: "Not bad, not bad, you even took pictures of the process of human beings transforming into zombies... Huh? Lan Zhiyu has been dead for decades You were able to capture her news, it seems that this time we will definitely get the first place this year!"
The boss praised the other party well, and then invited him to eat snacks, but Lu Yanli ignored him.The boss finished the plate of small white bones by himself, and then continued to assign tasks to him.
"Some employees of our newspaper office are really useless. They will die after two or three interviews. You are more durable. In this way, next week, you can interview this village."
He smiled and looked at Lu Yanli: "The ghost marriage custom in this village is very famous, and it has created a historical record for many years that all the girls were married as ghosts. Go and learn."
Lu Yanli didn't say anything, and agreed.
The world... the world has gone mad early on.
I don’t know when it started, maybe it originated from the first time humans heard the unknown maddening and confusing ravings from another world; maybe it started when the head of the condemned prisoner who was supposed to be executed suddenly appeared on the whole line one day on the necks of people on the street; perhaps it started with some unconscious small movement of human beings to explore unknown areas...
In short, since then, the world has gone crazy, ghosts that once existed only in horror stories have prevailed, and human life has been filled with bloody, twisted, cold corpses.
However, only weirdness is recovered, there are no gods, and human beings have no resistance. In other words, people in a state of chaos will not think of resistance, and almost welcome the new world with joy.
They no longer have wars, because it is meaningless to fight. Anyway, if you die today, you may show up next to your bedside; human beings abolished the death penalty for the same reason as above; no one dares to commit a crime, because the person who killed the next second Revenge is possible; people are no longer afraid of death, and the boundary between life and death is blurred...
They live in a world of true peace and happiness.
Lu Yanli stepped into the elevator and searched for information about the small village with his head down.
That village is called Honghe Village. It is said that the rules in the village are very strict. Anyone who violates the rules will be bloodletted and thrown into the river at the head of the village. Over time, the river has turned into a river of red blood...
As he was watching, the elevator he was riding in wobbled and suddenly fell crazily. The number on the elevator display screen decreased rapidly, and finally stopped at the number -18.
The elevator door opens.
There was raging fire outside the door, and the inverted blood pool above was seething and boiling, and heads were howling in the blood pool.
The floor was wrong, Lu Yanli didn't step out, he stood in the corner to avoid crowding other passengers.After a while, the elevator swayed and seemed to be full of people. The door of the car was closed and it rose slowly.
The strand of black hair wrapped around his neck again, and Lu Yanli remained motionless until the elevator reached the floor before stepping out.A woman was drawn out of the black hair and landed in front of him with a bang.
It was a woman with a big belly. She grabbed Lu Yanli's trousers, raised her head and smiled at him: "Hey... let's have a baby... have a baby, shall we?"
Lu Yanli didn't answer whether it was good or not. In this case, he couldn't answer directly, and the other party's hand holding his trouser leg was too tight, so he couldn't walk away.
Looking at the dark eyes that were still dripping water, Lu Yanli squatted down, took out the knife he carried with him and handed it to her, and stroked her stomach.
The woman took it in a daze, and suddenly understood something, stretched out her hand to cut her stomach, and took out one after another little babies with blue faces and swollen faces.
Soon, the little baby crawled all over the ground with its eyes closed. The hall was full of scarlet and twisted long umbilical cords, and Lu Yanli had already left.
Since he was going to Honghe Village, he naturally wouldn't delay. After returning home, he packed up his things and rested at home for nearly a week. When the time came, he just went out.
"What a coincidence, are you on a business trip again?" The twin sisters living upstairs stuck together and jumped out the door.
They are newly moved sisters, the elder sister is named Li Fangwan, and the younger sister is named Li Fangzhi. They have a very good relationship and stick together all the time.
Lu Yanli nodded, said goodbye to them, went out to take a taxi to the station, and boarded the train to Honghe Village.
"This mission is very strange. To live in Honghe Village for a full month?" Chen Zhenghao said, "Besides, the name of Honghe Village sounds uncomfortable for some reason."
"Maybe it reminds people of a red river, it's a bit... a bit like the feeling of blood flowing into a river." Ding Conglu, the girl sitting beside him, said with emotion, holding Chen Zhenghao's hand tightly, and she said seriously : "We can do it, don't give up!"
"Yes." Chen Zhenghao looked at his girlfriend's delicate face, and suddenly hugged her tightly, "Xiaolu, we must live on."
"Are you also going to Honghe Village?" Just as the two embraced each other tightly, a voice came.
Ding Conglu immediately broke away from her boyfriend's arms, and looked at the visitor with a little embarrassment: "Yes, we also went to Honghe Village. My name is Ding Conglu, and this is my boyfriend Chen Zhenghao."
The one who came was a tall and fit woman with wheat complexion, standing taller than Chen Zhenghao. She introduced herself, "My name is Shen Na."
Not long after, people came one after another. After counting, there were 12 people in total. The oldest looked to be in his forties, and the youngest was a high school student with an immature face.
"Now let's look back at the mission. Arrive at XX Station in XX City on October 444th. At eleven o'clock, board the No. [-] train to Honghe Village and live in Honghe Village for a full month. The mission deadline is October [-]th. From [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] on November [-]th, you must not leave the area of Honghe Village during this period, otherwise it will be regarded as a mission failure." Shen Na said.
She has a leadership aura, and she easily got the right to speak. There was a man who was not convinced, so he muttered why he listened to you.
Shen Na calmly said: "Everyone's goal is to survive, so it's best not to fight internally. If you have something to discuss, now everyone can talk about how many missions you have done, and then we will choose the one with the most times." based on experience.”
The questioning man froze: "Three times."
Ding Conglu and Chen Zhenghao were a little embarrassed, and whispered, "Twice."
In fact, they are newcomers, and this is only their second mission, but in order not to be discriminated against, they have discussed lying about it before.
"three times."
"twice."
"Six times." Unexpectedly, it was the youngest high school student named An Xingyu who said that he had experienced six missions.
Now everyone's eyes turned to him involuntarily, and they were all a little surprised.
Speaking of the so-called mission, I don't know when it started.They all inadvertently received some kind of consciousness, and that consciousness told them word by word that if they wanted to survive, they had to go to another world to do some tasks at a certain time.If you succeed, you can live, but if you fail...the consequence of failure is, of course, death.
No one believed it when they first received this kind of news, they just thought they were dreaming, but since then, they have repeated nightmares every night, dreaming that they will experience various ways of death because they do not perform tasks , That kind of pain makes it hard to believe that this is a dream.There used to be some people who didn't believe in evil, didn't arrive at the designated place to gather when the time was up, and died suddenly on the spot.
After several trials, they had no choice but to follow the guidance of that consciousness and obediently do the task.And the number of people doing missions each time is generally not too small. They realize that there are many people in the world who have encountered the same thing as themselves, so this group of people established a secret website by themselves, and through the oral Word of mouth, mutual exchange of experience on the site.
After integrating the descriptions of other taskers on the website, they found that most of the tasks were related to spooky horror events, of all types, and those ghosts were definitely not like those in ordinary novels that could be eliminated. If they don't understand, they can only find clues to avoid death.
As for the other world where the mission is performed, on the surface it looks similar to his own world, but after the mission actually starts, that world will become dangerous, and every move may put him to death.
The quests they do are not like some infinite flow novels, they can get rewards after completing the level, the only thing they can get is that after returning from the quest world, any trauma caused by the quest can be restored, and it will not affect reality. Life.And, regardless of the length of the task, in reality it only takes less than one second. After the task is completed, those who come back alive can continue to live normally, and those who fail will die on the spot.
Therefore, An Xingyu, who has done six missions at a young age, is really amazing.
Ding Conglu couldn't help asking him, "Then when did you start doing the mission?"
An Xingyu glanced at her with almost inorganic eyes, and said word by word: "NO.14 carried out its first mission in January this year."
Calculated, the frequency of once in the past two months.
When is this the end...
Everyone was silent for a moment, and Shen Na said, "Eight times."
The person who had questioned it just now became even more silent, and felt a lot of comfort in his heart.
"Wait a minute, are you the one on the website... The tall building is about to collapse? Last time I saw it, I have done eight missions, and after the eighth mission came out, I posted an experience sharing post, let us be careful of NPCs."
Generally speaking, they only need to be wary of local residents who may be ghosts pretending to be ghosts, and weird rules that may be violated at any time.If the local residents of the different world were determined to be human beings, no one would pay much attention to them.
Instead, they are happy to use the native population to find their way.Because they regard those people as tool people that can be used in the game, even if those local residents are like themselves, can talk, laugh and have their own thoughts, most people still call them NPCs.
It's like numbing yourself, it's just a game.Those people are all NPCs, so you can use them to live with peace of mind.
Shen Na: "It's not me."
"Isn't it you? Who would it be?"
"There are so many people on the website, I must not be the only one who has implemented it eight times." Shen Na said.
Just when they were curious, a voice came from the corner: "It's me."
A stern man stood up and walked among them, "I posted it."
He took a look at everyone, and thought that the ghost could not be replaced by an ordinary person at this time, he was a little relieved, and said, "Let me introduce myself, my name is He Lou."
In this way, the executors became thirteen.
While there was still time, An Xingyu asked, "Excuse me, what do you mean by being careful with NPCs?"
"Literally." He Lou's face was still a little pale.
Although he recovered physically after returning to the world, his psychological shadow is still there. From time to time, he worries about when his lower limbs will be amputated again.
"Have you ever thought that those NPCs are living people with their own thoughts just like us, how could they be easily used by us?"
It looks like he suffered a big loss from the NPC.
He Lou didn't say much, he was doing his utmost to remind others, but this kind of attitude made other people somewhat uneasy.
At exactly eleven o'clock, the train came slowly from the night and stopped in front of them, with warm light from the windows.
The door of the carriage in front of him opened directly, and everyone rushed in.
As imagined, there was no one in the carriage, they sat in random places and chatted in twos and threes.
He Lou watched the rapidly receding black scene outside the window, and suddenly remembered that man, his eyelids twitched.
Generally, the frequency of doing tasks is not too frequent, once or twice a month, but judging from the experience shared on the website recently, the time interval between the same person doing tasks has been shortened recently.
Take him as an example, but he received a new task within a week.
I don't know what will happen this time...
Unknowingly, all the passengers felt drowsy and fell asleep one after another. When they woke up, there were more voices around them.
"...The train is about to arrive - Honghe Village, please bring your belongings..."
He Lou opened his eyes, he was sitting in a crowded train, and the stewards were walking up and down, reminding everyone to arrive at the station immediately.He quickly glanced around at the other passengers in the carriage, and then counted the number of fellow passengers with sharp eyes. After confirming that there were quite a few of them and they were all awake, he felt relieved and went to the door to wait.
Honghe Village, here we come.
"Hey, are you going to the village too?" A plain-looking uncle asked when he saw that he was going to get off the car.
He Lou smiled: "Yes, let's go there to play."
"That's good, I'm from Honghe Village, and I'll invite you to drink at home." The uncle was very enthusiastic, "Is this your first time here? Do you know the way? Is there a place to live?"
He Lou shook his head: "I don't know."
"Oh, it's so late, and there are so many of you. There is an accommodation next to the train station in the village. It's opened by my relatives. You can go and have a look. Tell me Li Youcai's name, and I'll give you a discount."
Talking all the way, the train arrived at the station, the door of the carriage opened, and the thirteen people got off together.
"Let's rest at the hotel tonight? Let's go to the village tomorrow. Everyone is here to have fun, so keep your spirits up."
Everyone had no objection to this, and a group of people entered the hotel, inquired about the price and paid.
Speaking of which, the magic of the two worlds lies in this. Even currencies can circulate with each other, and there will be no problems with documents.If it weren't for them never being able to find news about reality in this world, and unable to contact people in reality, maybe they really thought this was the same world.
A good night's sleep.
The next day, Shen Na got up and went downstairs, and saw An Xingyu chatting with the proprietress of the hotel. He was fair and weak, but also polite. He quickly coaxed the proprietress into a smile, and cheerfully told them the news about Honghe Village.
"How did we get the name Honghe Village? Let's talk about decades ago, there was a flood here. After the flood disappeared, the river changed. I don't know what happened. Experts said that the riverside There are some microorganisms in the soil, which dye the river red, which is very beautiful, you can go there to take pictures."
"Auntie, isn't it inconvenient for you to use water?"
"No, the water we drink is clean."
Shen Na interjected: "Where is that red river? I want to go and see."
The proprietress put down the rag for wiping the table, picked up the apron to wipe her hands, walked to the door with small steps, and pointed to them: "Here, take the main road to the west from here, don't make a turn, keep going straight, and you will see it. "
"Okay, thank you, Auntie." An Xingyu said, "By the way, Auntie, do you have any other interesting and delicious food here besides Honghe River? Can you introduce it?"
While talking, other people also came out one after another, gathered around and listened.
The proprietress was excited: "The mushrooms here are very delicious. You can buy some as gifts when you leave. Our black tea and paper lanterns are all very famous..."
"Oh, by the way, the village head's grandson is going to marry a wife tomorrow, and there will be wine tomorrow night, so you can have a drink."
"Ah, we're just here to play, will it bother you if we go like this?" Ding Conglu asked.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, our village is like this, everyone has to go when a family puts wine, if you don't go, it's against the rules. Besides, you just pack a white bag, you don't need to pack too much, just to show your heart."
"White envelope?" Isn't it usually a red envelope?Others are a little puzzled.
"Yes, it's a free bag. Our village chief's son has been away for three years, and he finally married a wife. The village chief is very happy today." The proprietress was also very excited. She went back to the counter and took out a large Stacking the white bag, "I watched that kid grow up and gave it away with my own hands. He can choose. Ordinary girls don't want it. Now it's fine. I heard that this guy married is a college student with a beautiful photo. He must be happy."
"Oh, by the way, you just came from outside, so you must not have prepared white bags? It doesn't matter, I can give them to you here."
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, but Shen Na was the first to take it, she said: "Thank you then, let's go ask for a wedding drink tomorrow."
Seeing that Shen Na took it, the proprietress smiled even more happily. She looked at the others and asked doubtfully, "Don't you want it?"
"Or...you don't want to go?"
I don't know if it was an illusion, but when she asked the second half of the sentence, even the temperature in the air dropped a bit.
"Go, of course!" The few people who didn't take it trembled, and hurriedly took the white bag.
It was only when I held it in my hand that the texture of the white bag was a bit rough, just like the paper money used for burning paper.
"That's good." The proprietress smiled meaningfully, "After receiving the white bag...you must go to drink, but don't lose it."
"Also, if you enter our Honghe Village, you must abide by the rules of our Honghe Village. You arrived too late yesterday, so I didn't tell you. Go drink tomorrow and ask the village chief to tell you."
It can be said that she turned her face and refused to recognize anyone, but she had a smile on her face, and no one could say that her attitude was bad.
Not all the players are on the first floor. At this moment, there is a young player who just got up and went downstairs. Seeing everyone gathered together, one of them whispered to him what happened and asked him to go to the proprietress to ask for a free bag .
But the strange thing is that the proprietress has a very bad attitude towards him, and her eyes are particularly disgusting: "You didn't wake up until so late... People like you are not welcome in our Honghe Village."
He didn't even give him the white bag.
The young man became angry and didn't dare to say anything more, but he still couldn't hold back and complained in a low voice: "If you don't give it, you won't give it."
After all, he stood aside unhappily.
The landlady's face became even more gloomy, and she squeezed out a few sinister words from between her teeth: "You don't respect the old and love the young, and such a person who doesn't know the rules, you can't stay in Honghe Village."
The young man's name was Yao Wendong, and he wasn't really daring. Seeing the lady boss's face turning pale, he was too timid to speak.Not long after, a few people who had slept late came downstairs, and the landlady's expression became even more sinister, and she glared at those people viciously, as if they had committed some heinous crime.
Not to mention the free bag, and they didn't even have to eat breakfast. Those who got up late regretted it, but there was no other way.After everyone gathered, the group headed towards the Red River to the west of the village.
Honghe Village is not big, but it looks very new, and there are antique buildings like tourist attractions everywhere. Along the way, they found that no matter who they met, they had to greet each other warmly, and they had to respond in turn, otherwise, The man must have cast down his face and stared at the impolite man.
Talking about the rules... He Lou recalled these few words, as well as the proprietress' reaction, and vaguely sensed something.
A road runs from the entrance of the village to the end of the village, and a dozen people walk together, which is quite conspicuous.He Lou's contemplation was not very noticeable. He lowered his head and searched for news about Honghe Village on the Internet.
It's been a bit cold recently, and the wind has been a lot stronger, making people feel a little chilled.One of them was wearing a hat, and the wind blew it up with a loud whistling sound, blowing his hat out and falling into the rice field beside him.The others didn't care, glanced at it, and looked away.
The man didn't care either. He squatted on the side of the road and reached out to reach it, but he couldn't reach it. He broke a branch and picked it up, but it didn't work.Looking left and right, there were not many villagers here, so he stepped on the field carefully and reached for it.
With the hat back in his hand, he patted the ashes and put it on himself.
When he wanted to go up again, he found that his legs could not be pulled out at all, and his body became stiff little by little, and he floated lightly towards the center of the rice field.
Oops, oops...it's a ghost!
help!help me! !
But that group of people has gone away, and no one has looked back.
His eyes widened, and he could feel his internal organs being emptied alive...
Shen Na turned her head inadvertently, always feeling that something was wrong, she was startled suddenly with a little number in her heart.
"Wait a minute! One person is missing!"
Hearing this, everyone immediately panicked and stayed where they were and counted carefully.
Really missing one!
who is it?
This is only the first day, has the ghost started to attack? !
There was some commotion among the big guys, and some of them turned pale, because the missing person, like them, didn't take the boss's wife's free bag!
He is missing now, probably already... Will they also end up in the same end?
At this moment, a man ran over panting heavily, waving from a distance: "Wait for me! Are you leaving too fast?"
It was the missing person.
People who were startled by their own imagination just now breathed a sigh of relief, complaining every word.
"Why did you run away? Why are you here so late?"
"That's right! We're scared to death. How can anyone fall behind casually?"
The man waved his hand, with an embarrassed expression on his face: "I just went to the toilet because I had a stomachache. I wanted to catch up soon, so I didn't tell you."
They passed by a public toilet not long ago. They heard that other people didn't care. They reiterated to each other that they were not allowed to act privately, and they had to notify others of where they went.
Shen Na looked at him a few more times, feeling suspicious, but she couldn't say anything, she just swallowed her words silently, and gradually walked away.
While talking, Honghe arrived.
You can smell the fishy smell of water from a distance, and there are many green plants in the village along the way, except that there is no grass near the Red River, and you can feel the strangeness when you look closer.
The color of the river water... is too thick, viscous, bloody red, and slow-moving.Not only was there no grass growing on the bank, but also no living things were seen in the river. It was as calm as stagnant water, without even a single bubble.
"Why does this Red River look a bit like..." Everyone had some bad associations, one of them muttered quietly, and the ending disappeared, and he didn't dare to finish talking.
But who doesn't know his unfinished meaning?
"Okay, let's take pictures now." Shen Na said.
"The proprietress just said that we can take pictures here."
She also said that we can go to the village chief's son's wedding banquet, who knows whether this "can" means it is necessary?
Many people figured out the key points and agreed.
They took photos, as if they had really become tourists, not only took single photos, but also took a few group photos.We didn't return to the hotel until it was almost time for lunch.
"Very good, everyone came to dinner on time today, and you are not late. In our Honghe Village, being late is the most annoying behavior." The proprietress applauded them and welcomed them into the box.One of the only waiters in the store brought the food from the kitchen.
An Xingyu said thank you, and He Lou said the same.
Shen Na then said something.
Seeing that all three of them said thank you, the others reacted and said something to each of them. Then the waiter stepped back and continued to serve food from the kitchen.
While the proprietress and the waiter were busy, He Lou said solemnly: "Remember, everyone, if you are in the village, you must abide by the rules of the village, keep it firmly in your heart, and don't violate it." He glanced at the woman who was smiling and pressing the calculator on the counter , lowered his voice, "Otherwise, you will bear the consequences."
Needless to say, the proprietress repeatedly emphasized the rules several times, and the reactions of the villagers on the road made them aware that something was wrong in this village.
Must... follow the rules.
The first thing served was the soup, which was the offal meat of an unknown animal, and it was fragrant.He Lou glanced at it, but didn't drink.
Afterwards, various dishes were served.The proprietress appeared again: "Everyone can go out for a walk in the afternoon and go to bed early at night. Honghe Village least welcomes those who don't go to bed after eleven o'clock in the evening."
Everyone listened to the proprietress very much. After eating, everyone discussed it and formed a small group to go out together.
He Lou and An Xingyu walked together, and they decided to visit the village chief's house first.
An Xingyu said as he walked, "Don't you think this village is too strict about the rules? It's so strict that you can't violate them at all."
He Lou nodded: "I checked on the Internet before, this village is a bit famous, and now it is developing tourism, and their village wants to be known as a village of etiquette, so they are particularly concerned about this aspect."
"But they care so much about the so-called rules, it has reached a point of strictness." An Xingyu frowned, "Besides, if they really pay attention to etiquette, then their..." He looked left and right, and only after confirming that no one was there. He whispered, "What is their ghost marriage?"
He Lou's gaze was deep for a moment, and he slowly shook his head: "Try not to say such things." He naturally also noticed the abnormality, but the tragedy of the last mission seemed to be still in front of him, and he couldn't forget it.
"Let's ask the village chief first."
The village head's house is not too eye-catching in the village, the same three-story small building, wooden antique building.White paper lanterns are hung on the eaves of the front and back of the house, and there are black and white greetings on the lanterns, which flutter in late autumn.
In the yard, there were two neat rows of half-person-high paper-stitched men, with pale faces, red mouths, crooked smiling eyes, and gorgeous clothes.
Looking at it from a distance, it is quite scary.
Today the village head happened to be at home, as the hotel proprietress said, he was in a particularly good mood recently, after He Lou chatted with him a few words, he followed suit and talked about his son's dark marriage.
Ghost marriages have existed since ancient times and gradually disappeared, but they still exist in some rural areas.It was firmly believed that if a young man or woman died without a consort, the soul of the deceased would be disturbed and the house disturbed.
The village chief obviously thought so too. He was all smiles, and he was very satisfied when talking about his daughter-in-law: "Actually, I wanted to get one when I first left, but there is no way. It's hard to find a woman with good qualifications these days. Okay. I got it recently, not long after I left, she is young and filial, my Tianbao must like it."
"It's okay for him to come and trouble me every day..." At this point, the village chief seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and immediately changed the subject.
The two pretended not to hear. In this Honghe Village where the rules are greater than the sky, if they stalked, they might be kicked out in a second.
"Will you come to watch the ceremony tomorrow? It's better if there are more people, and it's more lively."
He Lou: "Of course I would, as long as you don't dislike the fact that there are too many of us."
The village chief smiled and said, "No, no, I welcome polite and well-behaved young people like you the most."
A word of keeping the rules actually sent a chill down the spine of the two of them.
He Lou tentatively asked: "Village Chief, may I ask, what will happen to those who accidentally violated the rules?"
The village chief's face immediately sank: "This is not what you should ask."
He Lou saw that the situation was not good, and immediately made amends: "I'm sorry, village chief, we are outsiders after all, and we are not very familiar with the rules of the village. Where can I learn more? We want to learn more, so as not to make mistakes."
At this time, the village head looked much better. He got up and went to the house to take out a booklet and handed it to them: "Actually, the rules in our village are not so terrible, but the young people are too impetuous now. I think you two are very good. Now you can Hold your breath, there are too few people who are really polite."
He Lou smiled, sat for a while, and found an excuse to leave with An Xingyu.
After they left, they began to flip through the booklet.
The front is fine, it is nothing more than the rule that you must not go to bed later than eleven o'clock, and you must not wake up later than eight o'clock in the morning.The more strict you get to the back, you must not complain, you must celebrate other people's happy events, and you must help others in their funerals. There are even strict regulations on dressing time.
"How do you feel?" He Lou asked.
An Xingyu said: "It feels stricter than military training, training people into puppets."
If people live under such strict rules for a long time, they will either collapse or be domesticated.
After answering this sentence, the two were thoughtful.
There was preferential treatment on the first day, but in the evening, their treatment was not so good. The proprietress stared at them eating, talking, sitting, lying and walking, etc., and would sullen her face if something was wrong, threatening that they would not be welcome in Honghe Village.
In the evening, everyone went back to their rooms. The feeling that their words and deeds were strictly monitored all day made them extremely aggrieved.
In order to save money and safety, they decided to live in a room together.When one of them returned to the room, he couldn't help it anymore, and began to mutter and complain because the others couldn't hear him.
"What kind of broken village, a bunch of rules, and tourism, who will come..."
The person who lived with him quietly didn't speak, until the other party started talking about the marriage in the dark and lashed out, then looked up at the other party.
"What's the matter with you? You didn't say a word. After picking up a hat, you came back feeling weird." The man patted the other person's shoulder, and suddenly realized that the touch of his hand was not right.
Why doesn't he seem to have photographed each other's bones?
It's soft, and it can feel a little rough and rustling through the clothes.
Like... photographed on a pile of leather-wrapped straw.
"you……"
He watched in horror as his companion's facial features gradually flattened, as if the cut mouth opened and closed, and the blood in his body seemed to flow backwards, and he froze in place, no matter how much he screamed in his heart to run away, he still couldn't move.
"You don't obey the rules." The scarecrow's cut mouth opened and closed, and his voice was hoarse.
A few straws burrowed through all the holes in his head, filling his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, rustling, and burrowing into his body.
"If you don't obey the rules, you should be punished."
don't... save me...
He wanted to call for help, but couldn't, and then he felt
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