escape the nightmare

When Lin Feng saw the red book in Lin Xu's hand, the appearance of "June [-]" flashed in his mind.

The almost identical cover made Lin Feng startled subconsciously.

However, when Lin Feng received the red book from Lin Xu, he found that the color of the cover of this book was actually similar to that of "June [-]".

Only then did Lin Feng quietly heave a sigh of relief.

Lin Feng carefully opened the family tree, and he quickly scanned all the names in the family tree.According to the memory that Jiangzhang managed to retrieve from the garbage dump in his brain, they quickly found the name of the previous man in a network of relationships.

Lin Feng glanced at the date of birth marked under his name.Sure enough, as they expected, it was exactly the same as the number on the human skin paper pasted behind the man.

It seems that their previous guesses about the customs clearance method based on "June [-]" should be almost the same as the correct method.

Lin Feng looked through the genealogy again, and he found that Wang Jiang was right, the relationship network of the genealogy is not too complicated, and there are indeed not many residents in the whole town.

Although Lin Feng felt that as far as these residents were concerned, it would be enough for them if they all became crazily chasing and killing them like last night.

Lin Feng couldn't help but smiled wryly as he thought about it, but soon he discovered another very strange thing.

According to "[-]", if these residents want to use the disguise technique, they must have the raw materials used to make these human skin paper.

But Lin Feng read the genealogy several times over and over again, and he still didn't feel that there was any girl's face in the genealogy that looked the same as the face on the parchment.Couldn't even find one that was similar.

After Lin Feng made this discovery, Jiang Zhang and Lin Xu also followed Lin Feng's words and compared the appearance of the parchment with the photos of all the girls on the family tree.Indeed, as Lin Feng said, this face should not belong to anyone in this small town.

"Could it be because the family tree hasn't been updated yet?" Lin Xu thought for a while, "After all, so many years have passed."

Although Lin Xu's conjecture is not completely impossible, according to Wang Jiang's previous statement, the economic development of the town has not been good, and people here can only go out but not in, so both Lin Feng and Jiang Zhang feel that the owner of the parchment paper is not very good. It may have been a recent arrival in this town.

Besides, the owner of this human skin paper does not look young, as long as he is a resident of this town, no matter what, he should be included in the family tree.

The most important point is that Lin Feng couldn't figure out the reason why the residents in the town used the disguise technique.

Suddenly, a bad guess flashed in Lin Feng's mind

——If the appearance on the human skin paper does not come from the residents of the town, then the only source of this face is people outside the town.

In other words, the real identity of the big boss in the game is not necessarily a resident of the town, it is very likely that it is temporarily living in the town as a tourist.And these human skin papers were brought into the town from the outside world.

Although there is no evidence to support Lin Feng's hypothesis, Jiang Zhang also feels that the truth may be the case.

But in this way, it will be more difficult for Lin Feng and the others to find the big boss. After all, the number of tourists coming and going in the town every day is basically the same as the number of aborigines in the town itself.

Lin Feng frowned. He didn't expect that the scope of the game would suddenly expand to the entire town and tourists outside the town this time. This made him suddenly feel that the game and reality were about to be combined.

Fortunately, the game is still just a game. It is impossible for this big boss to hide outside the scope of the game map, so they just need to target the small town.

Before Lin Feng and the others had discussed it for a long time, the residents came in one after another from the gate of the ancestral hall, so it was difficult for Lin Feng and the three of them to stay in the ancestral hall any longer.In order to facilitate the action at night, Lin Feng quietly wrapped the genealogy tree in his coat and took it away.

Night soon enveloped the entire town again.Shan Han and Wang Jiang also arrived at the place they agreed to meet just before dark.

The information that Shan Han and Wang Jiang inquired was similar to what Lin Feng and the others speculated at the beginning. Those residents really didn’t know what happened last night, and they also complained about the recurrence of back pain with Shan Han and the others just as Lin Feng expected. things.

After the two sides exchanged information with each other, they parted ways again according to the agreed division of labor.

They now just need to prepare mentally and physically for the night to come.

Lin Feng and Jiang Zhang walked side by side on the small road in the town. Lin Feng looked at the red lanterns that were still extinguished, and the light of the setting sun shone on the red paper. Crazy, Lin Feng would feel that the scene in front of him was a little indescribably romantic.

There was even a moment when Lin Feng felt that it was not the first time he was walking this road with Jiang Zhang like this.

After Lin Feng came back after wandering around, he found that he and Jiang Zhang had unknowingly walked back to the gate of the ancestral hall.

"Hey! Boy—do me a favor."

Lin Feng raised his head, and he saw a fat middle-aged man standing on the long ladder, lowering his head and shouting towards him and Jiang Zhang.

Lin Feng saw the middle-aged uncle holding both hands on the handrails on both sides of the long ladder. The middle-aged uncle probably thought that Lin Feng didn't know he was calling them. He was worried that he would find someone who could help and left just like that, so he let go immediately. With one hand, he waved at Lin Feng and Jiang Zhang.

"Help me pass the lamp oil, can you—!" The middle-aged uncle pointed to Lin Feng's side.

It was only then that Lin Feng realized that there was really a small oil barrel by his feet.

Lin Feng looked at the exaggerated movements of the middle-aged uncle, and he was very afraid that the middle-aged uncle might lose his center of gravity if he continued to swing like this, and he would fall directly from the long ladder.In order to prevent the possibility of his crow's mouth becoming real, Lin Feng quickly picked up the oil barrel and handed it to the middle-aged man.

"Thanks."

The middle-aged uncle thanked Lin Feng after taking the oil barrel.Lin Feng saw the middle-aged uncle raised his feet and changed his posture, sitting on the long ladder.

The middle-aged uncle stretched out his hand and pulled the lantern that was originally hanging on the door beam towards him.He took off the red cover of the lantern, and poured in the lamp oil that Lin Feng handed him just now.

"Uncle, are you adding lamp oil?" Lin Feng couldn't help asking curiously as he watched the uncle's smooth operations.After all, Lin Feng was born in the age of technological advancement, and those ancient lamp oil lighting methods were all part of his bedtime story for him.

"Yes." Since Lin Feng had done him a big favor just now, the middle-aged uncle's attitude towards Lin Feng was particularly eager.

Lin Feng noticed that the middle-aged uncle had a proud tone when he talked about this matter. After the middle-aged uncle filled the lantern in his hand with oil, he climbed down the stairs.

"I've been in charge of adding lamp oil these past few years." The middle-aged uncle said while carrying a ladder to another lantern.

Lin Feng glanced at the oil barrel in the middle-aged uncle's hand, and he found that the barrel of lamp oil he handed over just now was still full, and more than half of it had been poured out by now.

"A lamp needs so much lamp oil?" Lin Feng was a little surprised.

"No," said the middle-aged uncle, "this lantern has to be lit all day long. If it breaks, it's unlucky. Doesn't it cost so much oil?"

Lin Feng was silent for a while after listening to the uncle's words.Then he raised his head to look at Jiang Zhang, and at the same time he found that Jiang Zhang was also looking at him.

It seems that they thought of one thing at the same time.

Although there are not so many houses in the town, with the addition of those miscellaneous small shops, there are at least a hundred houses.Even if the fuel consumption of two lamps in an ordinary household is equivalent to the fuel consumption of one lantern in an ancestral hall, the monthly lamp fuel consumption of the small town is extremely considerable.

But they didn't find any place that looked like a fuel sales point in the town, and because there were basically few cars in the town, there were no gas stations.

So where does the lamp oil used in the town on weekdays come from?

Jiang Zhang and Lin Feng exchanged glances, and then he asked: "It seems that everyone has lanterns hanging in front of their homes. Wouldn't it be troublesome if we had to change them every day?"

"Hahahahahaha," the middle-aged uncle seemed to have expected that Lin Feng and Jiang Zhang would ask this question, he smiled smugly and said, "Those torn paper lanterns are just deceiving you who have never experienced it before." The son of a country life."

Torn paper lanterns?

The two "brothers" Lin Feng and Jiang Zhang were confused by the middle-aged uncle's words.

Middle-aged uncle: "Those are just models. We usually work from nine to five. How can we have the spare time to tinker with these lanterns every day like me. If it weren't for getting rid of the pain earlier, and the mayor said that this is some kind of Bodhisattva's guidance, I would It is estimated that no one has hung those things a long time ago."

"Let's go."

Before Lin Feng and Jiang Zhang started to digest the middle-aged uncle's words, they saw the middle-aged uncle climbed down the long ladder again, put away the long ladder neatly and walked away.

"It seems that our plan is about to change again." Lin Feng looked at the back of the middle-aged uncle, and he shrugged helplessly.

But this change is a good thing, at least Wang Jiang doesn't have to pull the whole town's monsters by himself.

Lin Feng seemed to have remembered something, he patted Jiang Zhang on the shoulder, and said in a sincere tone: "Young man, sometimes you really can't be tough, learn from it."

Lin Feng: "As for the tuition fee, it's waived. I'm not as stingy as someone who actually wants others to repay the favor of on-demand."

Hearing Lin Feng's tone, Jiang Zhang raised the corners of his mouth a little angrily and amusingly.

It's kind of vengeful.

But Lin Feng's sixth sense is really accurate, they really can't pass the level by directly turning off all the lights in the town.

It should be said that they don't need it.

As for why the other lanterns would light up at night, Lin Feng explained that it was probably like the last boss battle in the previous game "Painted Skin". Confuse their "limps".

If they hadn't happened to meet someone who added lamp oil, they would really have done useless work one by one as planned before.

However, when Lin Feng and Jiang Zhang were rejoicing at their good luck, they suddenly felt that the sky had darkened, and the temperature around them had also dropped a lot.

Lin Feng was taken aback for a moment, and he looked down at the time on the lock screen of his phone.

No more, no less, zero point zero.