deadly round table

This earthen vat is made in the shape of a tortoise shell. It is about 50 centimeters high. The center width of the circular cylinder body is narrow at the top and bottom. The mouth is less than the size of a palm.The volume of the tile vat is about equal to the volume of a person, but its shape cannot match the shape of a person at all, not to mention the size of the vat mouth, an adult's head cannot be inserted through the vat mouth.Things that cannot be done in theory, but this turtle shell tile tank has done it——

Jiang Wenyuan put on gloves and gently pressed Cuntou's scalp. Under the skin was a hard and complete skull shape, with no signs of fracture or crush.The space in the vat was filled to the brim, and the scalp protruding from the mouth of the vat was stuck between the mouth of the vat and the filling in the vat, leaving a deep mark.Jiang Wenyuan straightened up, and said to the player standing outside the door, "Come here, two people, and move this crock pot out."

A bespectacled young man named Dai Li and Mo Fan, who has always been active in expressing himself, walked into the room on their own initiative.When they smelled a strong smell outside the house, they were already mentally prepared. Mo Fan also wore an anti-smog mask, but the rotten smell inside the house was completely beyond their imagination. The smell they smelled outside the house was just Ordinary and unpleasant, but the smell in the house can be described as a biochemical weapon.Anti-smog masks were useless at all. As soon as Dai Li and Mo Fan entered the room, they felt that they were about to suffocate in the stench. But Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian searched for clues in the room and stayed for quite a while, but they He looked as if nothing had happened.

Dai Li and Mo Fan both comforted themselves with the reason that "maybe they used dolls to shield the stinky mental attack before coming" in their hearts, and then moved the crock pot out of the guest room as quickly as possible.Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian checked all the containers in the room that were similar in size to adults, and finally left the guest room after confirming that the body of the braided male player was indeed not in the room.

Dai Li and Mo Fan moved the crock pot to the common rest area of ​​the hotel. After cleaning the mud on it, they waited for Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian to leave the guest room.Mo Fan said to Jiang Wenyuan: "Boss, we tried to get the contents out, but the mouth of the vat is too small, and the contents inside are stuck and cannot be poured out. I guess we can only see it by breaking the vat directly." What's in the vat."

When Mo Fan suggested it, he was also very well prepared. The few iron hammers he prepared were enough to deal with the crock pot.Jiang Wenyuan nodded in agreement with Mo Fan's proposal, "Smash it lightly, don't damage the contents of the tank."

"Of course, of course!" Mo Fan said excitedly.Without Jiang Wenyuan's intervention, Mo Fan spontaneously led a few familiar players to smash the entire vat from the outside, exposing the contents of the vat.

It was the complete body of the female player with a small head. Her body was huddled together, still maintaining the shape of the barrel in the vat, lying in the broken half of the vat.In order to stuff her into the vat, the murderer who killed the female player with the short hair twisted off all the torso and limbs of the female player with the short hair, and squeezed them into the tank in the most suitable shape, but the skull of the female with the short hair was still the same Shape, undamaged, how did her head fit through a tank mouth much smaller than her skull?

With the cooperation of several players, the body of the female player with a short head that had been squeezed out of shape stretched out again.There was no skin trauma on her body, except for some signs of bleeding from the mouth and nose, no bleeding elsewhere.The inch-cut female player had multiple fractures all over her body, and her muscles were squeezed and deformed, resulting in her inability to function normally and eventually died.

Jiang Wenyuan confirmed the cause of the female player's death, and after finding no other clues from her, he said to Chen Mian, "Let's go, let's go for a walk around the residential area and contact other NPCs in Zhuang Township."

Chen Mian had no adverse reactions when he searched for clues among the missing players, and he also had no adverse reactions when he saw the deformed corpse of a female player with a short head. However, when he was about to leave the house, the adverse reactions came. He rubbed the center of his brows and revealed to Jiang Wenyuan With a weak smile, "The female player's corpse is too scary. I'm a little uncomfortable. I'm afraid I won't be able to sustain it for too long... My dear, use a doll to find the important NPC outside the hotel, okay?"

Jiang Wenyuan pondered for a while, "I don't have a doll that can directly find important NPCs, but as long as it is your wish, I will find a way to make it come true."

After Jiang Wenyuan sprinkled dog food to the other players, he took out two dolls from the special space.

One is a basketball-sized earth doll with slender limbs growing on the earth, and half of the earth is occupied by a Q version of a smiling face.The other is a doll of an ancient hero holding a bow and arrow.

Jiang Wenyuan first activated the special ability of the earth doll: confirm the number and location of NPCs with physical human figures within a radius of one kilometer, and obtain their personal information profiles.

Reactivate the special ability of the archer doll: Confirm an NPC with important clues among the known NPCs (limited to 10).

In the virtual map formed by the dolls of the earth, Jiang Wenyuan excluded the troupe NPCs that he could see in the afternoon, and chose female NPCs over the age of 50 from the nearest houses, and only one person per household.After selecting ten people, let the archer doll choose the NPC with important clues.

Under the superimposed use of the special abilities of the two dolls, Jiang Wenyuan quickly confirmed the NPC with important clues among the ten NPCs, "Look, I have found the answer."

Chen Mian cupped his face in both hands, looked at Jiang Wenyuan with admiring eyes, "Honey, you are really amazing!"

The players who saw this scene thought they had become numb to Jiang Wenyuan's misuse of dolls, but when they saw Jiang Wenyuan wasting dolls again, they still felt so heartbroken that they wanted to cry.

How suitable is the ability of the earth doll to find hidden NPCs and find the last way out when all NPCs have no clues!How suitable the archer doll is to use when there is a lot of interference information, and you don't know which NPC to trust, so that you can accurately find the real clues!

These two precious dolls were wasted by Jiang Wenyuan just because Chen Mian felt a little tired.Although the other players are not the owners of the two dolls, they still feel heartache and can't breathe.Thinking that Jiang Wenyuan might waste more dolls in the future, if you're bothering me, they still don't want to, out of sight is out of sight...

Jiang Wenyuan had already found important clues among other NPCs, and the other players consciously avoided Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian, went to the waterway, and went to Wutang Lake to find clues, so as not to see the scene where the dolls were wasted in vain.

The important NPC that Jiang Wenyuan found with the doll was a 52-year-old woman named Wei Cuilan, whose home was near the Wuguichi that once belonged to the Wei family.When they walked through the streets and followed the information given by the map to find Wei Cuilan, she was sitting on a stone bench outside her house, eating melon seeds and gossiping with a few middle-aged women of the same age.Among the several middle-aged women, Wei Cuilan was the only one who talked endlessly, and the others occasionally echoed a sentence or two.From this small detail, it can be seen that Wei Cuilan is definitely the absolute master of Zhuangxiang's first-hand gossip.

The two foreigners, Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian, were very conspicuous. When they walked in front of Wei Cuilan and the others, they stopped talking and looked at them together.Jiang Wenyuan said to Wei Cuilan: "Are you Miss Wei Cuilan? We are tourists who just visited Zhuang Township yesterday. We shoot micro-videos and are very interested in folk stories from all over the world. Someone told us that Sister Wei is Zhuangxiang is the best storyteller, if we want to hear stories, we must come to you."

Wei Cuilan is a gossiping woman who likes to gossip, and she has never been praised so much before. She is secretly happy, but she has not completely let go of her guard against Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian. "Look, I'm about to get ready for lunch now, when the men in the house get back from work over at the turtle pond. I don't have much time."

"Hey, Sister Wei, we are interviewing you. You are the provider of our video stories. We must pay for it! You can ask these big sisters next to you to help you make today's lunch, and then share a little reward They will have it." Jiang Wenyuan said, taking out a small piece of gold from his bag.

Seeing the gold, Wei Cuilan's eyes immediately lit up, she stood up, and took the gold away from Jiang Wenyuan's hands, "I usually like to tell stories and chat with people, where have I ever collected money, you guys are too much You're welcome. Let's go, let's go into the room and talk." After welcoming Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian into the room, Wei Cuilan poked her head out of the room and said to the middle-aged women outside: "Sisters, look at me. There is still something to do, let's continue chatting next time, let's leave today!"

Wei Cuilan took Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian to the living room, warmly made them a pot of tea and brought a plate of snacks, and then sat down with them around the small carved round table, "What story do you want to hear? There are so many legends and allusions in our village!"

Jiang Wenyuan waved his hand, "We can look up those legends and allusions from the books. What we want to hear are the real stories that happened in Zhuang Township."

Wei Cuilan said excitedly: "Then you have found the right person. I am 52 years old, but as long as it is a major event that happened in Zhuangxiang in the past 80 years, I basically know a thing or two! No one knows more about Zhuangxiang than me! Whose story do you want to hear?"

Jiang Wenyuan said: "The story of Wei Fengdeng's family and Dong Xiaowan's family, your family's current tortoise pool was bought from Wei Fengdeng's family, so you should be familiar with their two families."

When Wei Fengdeng told the players the story of him and Dong Xiaowan at the dinner table yesterday, he skipped directly from the agreement made by his grandparents to form a family, and skipped to his and Dong Xiaowan's child relatives, omitting the stories of their parents' generation.What Jiang Wenyuan wanted to know was the stories of their fathers.

With Wei Cuilan, Jiang Wenyuan got the answer.When Wei Cuilan talked about the affairs of their two families, she still sighed with emotion.

The Wei family and the Dong family raised tortoises from the generation of their grandparents, and their lives gradually became rich.After they made an agreement to become in-laws, their wives soon conceived children one after another in the same year, and each gave Wei and Dong's two big fat sons.Although the two old men were a little disappointed with the result of their first child, they quickly cheered up again. If the first child is not good, then the second child will be fine. It's pretty cool for these two little fat guys to treat them as brothers of the opposite sex.

Father Wei and Father Dong grew up together when they were wearing open crotch pants. Because the two families often moved around, they experienced a noisy childhood, and gradually grew up to become very close buddies.The two families don't know if selling tortoises is a crime of murder. As a result, their two families did not give them any new brothers and sisters after Father Wei and Father Dong were only two seedlings.

No new children were born, and Grandpa Wei and Grandpa Dong were getting old, so they pinned their hopes on their grandchildren.Father Wei and Father Dong married early in order to satisfy their father's wishes.Coincidentally, the object of their marriage, like them, is a pair of very close girlfriends and sisters.The two even held the wedding ceremony together on the same day, which was very lively.At that time, which young man in Zhuangxiang didn't envy Father Wei and Father Dong who married the two most beautiful girls in Zhuangxiang, and which young girl didn't envy the pair of girlfriends who married Father Wei and Father Dong.The good marriage between the two families has always been a good thing that Zhuangxiang likes to talk about, and others are envious.

It's a pity that the good times don't last long, and prosperity must decline.When the bride of Wei and Dong's family was pregnant with a child, Grandpa Wei and Grandpa Dong handed over the responsibility of managing the family to Father Wei and Father Dong.After becoming the head of the family, they must undertake the work of selling turtles in other places.Something happened when Father Wei and Father Dong left home independently for the first time to sell turtles. They met several escaped prisoners.During the conflict between the two parties, Dong's father was stabbed several times by a murderer, but he couldn't be saved in the end, leaving his wife and unborn child behind at a young age.

Grandpa Dong and Grandma Dong couldn't bear the pain of bereavement, and they left one after another shortly after Dong Xiaowan was born.Before leaving, Grandpa Dong entrusted the Dong family and Dong Xiaowan's mother and daughter to his most trusted Grandpa Wei, hoping that the Wei family could take good care of Dong's widow and daughter.

Grandpa Wei naturally couldn't live up to the trust of his good brothers, and treated Dong Xiaowan's mother and daughter as if they were his own daughter and granddaughter.Father Dong's widow and Father Wei's wife have been best friends for many years. The life of Dong Xiaowan's mother and son in Wei's house is not bad.However, Wei's father is really not good for business. He manages the tortoise pond of Wei Dong's family, and his income is not as much as that of Wei's grandfather.

In desperation, Grandpa Wei had no choice but to go out of the mountain again and teach Father Wei how to do business.Grandpa Wei is getting old, and his health is far from what it used to be. After falling ill with a bad cold, he never got up again.Grandpa Wei and Grandma Wei went there when Wei Fengdeng and Dong Xiaowan were five years old.Two old people who were looking forward to a baby kiss passed away one after another before seeing their grandson get married.

This is not the end of the tragedy of Wei Dong's family.

Wei Cuilan said sadly: "I didn't expect the widow of the Dong family to do such a scandal, which caused the reputation of the Wei family to be damaged. After the death of the head grandfather, the Wei family was still struggling to support the Wei and Dong families. The tortoise pond, but after the reputation was damaged, it became more difficult to do business, so he sold the tortoise pond. The Wei family's tortoise pond was bought by our family."

"Lele's mother took Lele back to her natal family to visit relatives, Lele's mother, why haven't you cooked yet?" A rough male voice came from the outer hall.

Wei Cuilan said inwardly, and said in a low voice, "My man is back, and he hates me talking to others the most. You guys leave quickly, I have to cook. When you see him, tell him he's here to see the tortoise. Don’t say you’re here to inquire about stories, you know.”

Wei Cuilan sent Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian out, and met a dark and tall man standing outside the door. He said to Wei Cuilan with a calm face, "I've told you so many times, don't gossip with others! You still want to lie to me You said you came to buy a turtle, you are a good man!" He turned his head to look at Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian, "You two don't need to come to my house again, my family doesn't welcome people who come to inquire about gossip!"

Wei Cuilan was like a fat quail in front of her husband, not daring to say a word.Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian didn't have sex with Wei Cuilan's husband, even if they could subdue him, Wei Cuilan would not tell the scandal about Dong Xiaowan's mother.Wei Cuilan's clue can only be interrupted with regret.

After Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian were kicked out of Wei's house, they went back to the residence to see if the other players had gained anything in the water.

There is a harvest, and it was discovered sweetly, brought back by gathering other players——

What they brought back was the body of the braided male player. His body was found in Wutang Lake. He was locked in a bamboo cage, submerged in Wutang Lake, and drowned.The expression of the braided male player was extremely painful, his hands were covered with dense scars, and there were corresponding marks on the pig cage.It can be judged from these traces that the braided male player struggled for a long time before he died, and the time he struggled far exceeded the time a person drowned to coma and death.

"Pig soaking is an old punishment. Prisoners are put into pig cages and drowned in water until they die. It is usually used to punish adultery and adultery. Soaking pig cages is a curse that adultery and adultery are inferior to pigs and dogs. Like a beast, after death, you cannot be reborn as a human being." Chen Mian looked at the drowned braided male player, and whispered in Jiang Wenyuan's ear, "Dong Xiaowan's mother is a widow, and another scandal happened, the keyword is very dangerous."

Jiang Wenyuan was noncommittal to Chen Mian's guess, "We still need more clues."

After Jiang Wenyuan and Chen Mian consumed another six dolls during the lunch break, they finally waited for the troupe invited by Wei Fengdeng in the afternoon.

When the troupe was gathering on the stage, Wei Fengdeng handed over the troupe's repertoire list to Jiang Wenyuan, "This is the list of traditional shadow puppetry in our Zhuang Township. Take a look, what do you want to see?"

Jiang Wenyuan took the repertoire list and browsed it with Chen Mian. Among these repertoires, there was one that directly caught their attention.

"The Legend of Zhuangxiang Loyalty - Turtle"

Jiang Wenyuan returned the playlist to Wei Fengdeng, "I want to watch Zhuang Xiang's Story of Loyalty, please ask the troupe to arrange it."

When Wei Fengdeng heard Jiang Wenyuan's request, a very unnatural expression appeared on his face for a moment, "This is a dross custom in Zhuang Township, and we no longer practice this custom. Why don't you watch other plays?" .”

Jiang Wenyuan didn't miss the change in Wei Fengdeng's expression, but he didn't ask too much, "We are researchers of cultural customs, and there are some shining points in some dross customs. We can make progress by picking the essence from the dross. I have heard a lot, and this is the first time we have seen the story of loyalty related to the turtle."