Every day I'm on the verge of death

When Lu Jifeng opened his eyes, he saw a man almost sticking to his face, staring at him expressionlessly. Although he was not timid, his face was enlarged, and his heart beat faster when he was frightened. The fishy and earthy smell made him frown unconsciously.

He is a little confused about the situation now. He was eating dinner in his living room a second ago, but he was suddenly pulled into the game in the blink of an eye. Tang Qiu's second game time has not yet come. possibility.

That shouldn't mean he was pulled into the game by his teammates, but his own game interval is definitely still two months away, so what is going on with his current situation...

The man standing in front of him was still staring at him motionlessly. He couldn't figure it out, so he didn't want to. He avoided the man's face, propped himself up and tried to sit up, but he felt the whole room shaking with his movements.

"Eat something when you wake up."

As soon as the man finished speaking, he brought out a bowl of soup from behind. The bowl was steaming, and it looked like it had just been served, but... there was clearly nothing behind the man.

It should have been about a minute since he woke up. The man looked so motionless before he spoke. He almost thought that the person in front of him...was not a human being.

"Thank you."

Lu Jifeng reached out to take the soup bowl, the soup in the bowl was milky white, it looked like a bowl of well-boiled fish soup.

The soup smelled very fragrant in his hand, and it didn't have the earthy smell in the air. The smell seemed to be tempting him to drink it...drink it...drink it.

"Old style."

He Tong's voice sounded outside the door, and then the door was kicked open by Tang Wuyin who was standing outside. The sound of kicking the door woke Lu Jifeng up instantly, the bowl fell to the ground with a shake of his hand, and the milky white soup spilled all over the floor.

The man looked at the bowl on the ground and didn't say anything. He just squatted down and slowly picked up the debris on the ground, cleaned it up and left without saying a word.

After the man left, Tang Wuyin and the others walked in. Only then did Lu Jifeng see a vast ocean outside the door. The place where they... are now is a boat house.

"Have you ever had that bowl of soup?"

Tang Wuyin's face was a little nervous, and Lu Jifeng, who looked blank, pulled him to sit beside him, and shook his head: "You guys came in before I had a drink."

Tang Wuyin, who was relieved by Lu Jifeng's words, restrained the expression on his face, and was no longer in a hurry. He sat aside and completely lost the flustered look just now.Instead, it was He Tong who looked excited and said in a quiet tone.

"I saw with my own eyes that the person who drank that soup committed suicide by jumping into the water."

Tang Qiu, who stood at the back, also nodded. Judging from the information collected by several people, when they first entered the game, there would always be a man serving soup for them. As long as they drank the soup, they would dive into the water unconsciously.

There is a strange custom in this place. Anyone who falls into the water is equal to a dead person. No one will rescue the person who falls into the water. Even if the person who falls into the water climbs up by himself, he will be thrown back into the water again by the fishermen living here.

On the way they came to look for Lu Jifeng, they met a man who drank soup and dived into the water, woke up and wanted to climb ashore, but after the man climbed up, the fishermen threw him back into the water again.

Seeing the man struggling in the water, the few people who originally wanted to go into the water to save him also gave up the idea of ​​going into the water to save him after hearing the fishermen say that they could not save the man who fell into the water.

After all, no one knows whether these nonsensical fishermen will regard them as those who went into the water to save others as those who fell into the water.

"Are there any mission clues?"

The time they entered the game this time was a bit weird, it wasn't anyone's game time point, let alone the game time setting that He Tong messed with and weighed, so they were suddenly pulled into the game?For safety, they must leave the game as soon as possible.

"On the way here, I met the head of the fisherman's village. He said that his son was going to marry a girl from the next village, and he asked us to have a wedding wine."

Tang Qiu stood aside and stroked his chin, looking thoughtful. They all knew that something was wrong with the current situation, but they could only take one step at a time.

"I'm afraid this wedding wine is not so delicious." Lu Jifeng paused after speaking, then looked at Tang Wuyin who was sitting next to him: "What is their wedding?"

"Three days later."

After Tang Wuyin pulled Lu Jifeng to stand up, they didn't have much time to waste. In order to leave the game early, they needed to collect clues.

"Come on, let's go to the village again."

After walking out of the door, Lu Jifeng realized that they were indeed on the boat now, with the sea in front and the land behind.A large number of houseboats are connected together, and this houseboat is the second home of fishermen.

They met many fishermen along the way, and the smell of fish and earth permeated the whole village, and this smell became stronger after entering the village.

"We're not going to live tonight in one of those houseboats we woke up in!"

Walking into the village, He Tong seemed to realize suddenly that the NPC didn't provide them with another place to live, and didn't even give them anything to eat except for the bowl of soup that would make people commit suicide by diving.

He Tong was full of disbelief, Lu Jifeng looked at a few villagers not far away, and pointed to them: "Maybe you can ask them to see if they would like to take you in tonight."

"them?"

Not long ago, in order to throw the diving player back into the water, these villagers, who are now looking kind, once took a paddle and knocked on the player's head, until the player could no longer struggle and sank to the bottom of the water.

Thinking of this, He Tong looked at those aborigines who made a fuss, shook his head and shrank back.

"No, no, I think the houseboat is very good, it matches my temperament."

He Tong's exaggerated movements caused passers-by on the road to look back at him frequently, Lu Jifeng glanced at him, and then decided to pretend not to know him for the time being.

"Ayin, let's go to the village chief's house to see."

Although these fishermen are not exclusive, they are not very enthusiastic about them.Although he looked at them frequently, his eyes did not seem to be curious or probing, but more like looking at everything.

This group of living people is more like living animals in captivity. They look at them frequently just to keep track of their things and not let them get lost.

Lu Jifeng couldn't understand the dialect of these fishermen, and he finally asked the direction of the village chief's house from an NPC after half an hour.

The village head lives at the end of the village, and the house with the most foreign style belongs to the village head. Standing at the door of the village head's house, you can see a branch of a pagoda tree extending from the door.

Most people would not plant locust trees in their homes, because there is an old saying that locust trees are also called ghost trees, and no one would plant ghost trees in their yards.

Lu Jifeng even wondered if their dungeon mission this time would be a supernatural mission within the Ghost Catch.

Lu Jifeng only knocked on the door twice before opening it from the inside. The person who opened the door was an old man, probably the village chief Tang Wuyin and the others had met before.

The old man has gray hair but looks very kind. I don't know if it's because he is well maintained and there are no wrinkles on his face. After he opened the door, he accepted Lu Jifeng and the others inside.

There was a table and a chair under the locust tree in the yard. After entering, several people sat down on the chairs, and the village chief even brought out tea to entertain them.

Unlike other places in the village, the village chief's house didn't have any stench. Even Lu Jifeng smelled a fresh fragrance, but it was too strong, which made it a bit pungent.

The village head ate the dry goods at home, and sat down after placing a meal on the table. After working so hard for a while, he was a little out of breath, so he asked after drinking a saliva.

"Young boy, is there something wrong with coming to see the little old man?"

Lu Jifeng doesn't know their identities in this game yet, but this doesn't prevent him from trying to get close and get useful information from the village chief.

The youngest people here are He Tong and Tang Qiu, so he winks at He Tong and Tang Qiu whenever he thinks about it.

He Tong, who had received Lu Jifeng's brainwaves, turned into a playful upper body for a second, pulled the village chief's sleeve, and said while shaking.

"Grandpa, the village chief, we just came from another place, and there are many new things in the village that we don't know. Can you tell us?"

When He Tong is not smiling, he looks like a pitiful person, and his appearance is also cute. This act of acting like a baby is no different from that of a child. Generally, old people will soften their hearts when they see such a cute child.

The old man probably also felt distressed, and the smile on his face deepened after being shaken by He Tong like this.

"Hahaha, of course, I will say whatever you want to hear. This man is old and has no skills, he just talks too much."

He Tong's accusation was very successful. In order to make the village chief lower his vigilance, Lu Jifeng decided to let He Tong play freely. He and Tang Wuyin would not interrupt. If He Tong really couldn't ask anything, he would open his mouth.

Furthermore, as a veteran who has played dozens of games, he doesn't believe that He Tong really doesn't understand anything. He thinks the biggest possibility is that this kid used to pretend to be cute in the past to deceive others' trust.

"Grandpa the village chief, I saw someone fall into the water on the way here, but no one is willing to save him. Why?"

He Tong's innocent appearance is very different from his usual unscrupulous appearance. One difference is probably that one is a good boy and the other is a gangster.

"This is related to our ancestral precepts. According to legend, there is a god in this sea. The god can bless us fishermen who go fishing to return safely with a good harvest, but there is a rule that everyone who falls into the water will get a god. Those who punish, we are not qualified to save sinners punished by the gods."

After the village chief finished a long sentence, his face was still full of smiles. Apart from the change in his eyes when he mentioned the man who fell into the water, he had no other special reaction.

The matter about falling into the water is clear, but the strange and pungent smell in the yard...in a village full of fishy smell, it seems extraordinarily strange.

He Tong probably felt that the scent was not right, so he asked, "Grandpa Village Chief, your house smells so good!"

The village chief's face was stiff for a moment, but he soon returned to normal. Lu Jifeng squinted his eyes and took a sip of water from the cup on the table.

Judging from the village head's reaction, it seems that there is something wrong with the fragrance that permeates the whole yard!