Chapter 37 - Lonely Village by the River (3)
“Let’s go.”
At this moment, Ye Ming suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled Jiang Xiuxiu.
“Others have gone far, we are behind,” he said softly.
Jiang Xiuxiu was stunned for a moment, and quickly regained her senses, realizing that she and the large army had fallen some distance away.
And the curtain of the sedan chair by the river bank also fell back because the wind dissipated, covering up the situation inside.
Without hesitation, Jiang Xiuxiu withdrew her gaze, followed Ye Ming and walked towards the players who had left.
They walked fast, and it didn’t take long before the gongs and drums were left behind.
In the following time, the players quickly found the Wang family.
Compared with other residents, the Wang family looked much desolate, the courtyard was in a mess, the ground was full of dust, and it was obvious that no one had lived in it for a long time.
They broke in, kicked open the wooden door, and went in briefly to clean up.
Then, the players divided several rooms.
Jiang Xiuxiu and Ye Ming were assigned to the firewood house behind the yard.
They found some quilts in the closet and stuffed them on the ground.
Then, the two locked the door and began to go out to search for information.
Considering the delicate stance of the surrounding NPCs, Jiang Xiuxiu did not plan to ask them about the situation, but first walked around Wang’s house to see if he could find anything.
According to the room and layout of the Wang family, Jiang Xiuxiu can find that the Wang family is a typical rural family of five, consisting of grandparents, parents and Wang Xiaoyue.
Just after waiting for Jiang Xiuxiu to search carefully, she found that if this house was used as a place for the players to stay, it would be fine, but once it was used as a “home”, it would seem a bit too empty.
There are no clothes in the closet, and there are no common group photos. After many cabinets are opened, they are either empty or just a pile of rubbish…
It was as if this place had been looted before.
Jiang Xiuxiu went to Wang Xiaoyue’s room to have a look, except for a few broken dolls and the certificate of honor posted on the wall, she could hardly find anything else.
The only thing left is a few yellowed elementary school textbooks.
“The same goes for other rooms,” Ye Ming, who went to the Wang family’s parents’ room to search and returned, gave a similar reply, “I didn’t leave anything important, only some old clothes and quilts were found.”
Seeing this, Jiang Xiuxiu gradually became aware of it.
Wang Xiaoyue disappeared, or after the incident, the rest of the Wang family should have moved away.
They left the village with some valuables and necessities.
As for the rest of the stuff, like the kitchen pots and pans, it’s all left here.
Things related to Wang Xiaoyue, perhaps out of nostalgia, were also taken away by them.
In this way, in Wang’s house, the information that players can obtain should be limited.
If you really want to find out the truth about Wang Xiaoyue’s disappearance, you have to go out and see it later.
After realizing this, Jiang Xiuxiu’s heart was inevitably a little disappointed.
The good thing is that players in this game can support themselves as long as they can cook.
After ordering dishes in the yard, the female players took the leftover rice and made do with it.
A few hours passed in a flash, and gradually, it was getting late.
The sky outside the village was gloomy, and the whole village was plunged into darkness when the day passed.
Jiang Xiuxiu and Ye Ming searched carefully for another hour, and confirmed that there was no basement in the Wang family.
After that, they discussed it and decided to go back to the room and sleep.
This was the first day they entered the game. Previously, the players spent a while in the car, and later in the village, it was considered a tossing for a long time.
When the time slowly reached nine o’clock, everyone began to feel sleepy.
After Jiang Xiuxiu washed up, he went into the firewood room and lay down on his homemade crib.
For safety reasons, Ye Ming slept not far from her.
The environment of the firewood house was a bit difficult, with air leaks everywhere, and the floor was still damp.
Jiang Xiuxiu lay in the cold blanket, only feeling that this was the most difficult environment she had encountered since playing the game for so long.
Trying to suppress the discomfort, Jiang Xiuxiu began to recall everything that happened during the day, trying to find out if she could find any information.
After a while, she slowly fell into a deep sleep in her wild thoughts.
Day thinking, night dreaming.
Before Jiang Xiuxiu went to bed, she kept thinking about the marriage team she saw on the bank of the river. After she fell into a dream, she also dreamed of related content.
“Jiang Xiuxiu… Jiang Xiuxiu?”
At the very beginning of the dream, she was also sleeping in the woodshed.
But halfway through the dream, she was awakened by a familiar call.
The voice was very soft, as if someone had deliberately lowered his voice to avoid being noticed.
But Jiang Xiuxiu in the dream was easily awakened by this voice.
Jiang Xiuxiu opened her eyes, got up from the bed, pushed open the door of the woodshed, and looked over at the source of the sound—
I saw a thin twenty-year-old woman standing outside the door of the woodshed.
She wore a quirky white dress, and her black hair as thick as seaweed reached her waist.
She stood quietly in the deserted yard, the Lingling moonlight fell on her body, making her skin reveal an unnatural paleness.
At this moment, this inexplicable woman turned her back to Jiang Xiuxiu.
The call just now was from her.
“Jiang Xiuxiu… long time no see.” The woman turned her back to her and said softly.
Jiang Xiuxiu remembered very clearly that she did not know this woman.
But after the woman opened her mouth, Jiang Xiuxiu opened her mouth uncontrollably and asked, “Wang Xiaoyue?”
The woman’s back trembled slightly, and her voice became more ethereal: “It’s me.”
She admitted it.
In the dream, Jiang Xiuxiu was surprisingly rational.
After seeing the woman’s back, a strange intuition told her that she was dreaming.
If it was Jiang Xiuxiu in reality, he would definitely be vigilant and try not to speak.
However, for some reason, she in the dream is completely different from the real one.
After confirming that the person in front of her was Wang Xiaoyue, Jiang Xiuxiu in the dream panicked and asked eagerly, “Where have you been? We are all looking for you! What happened to you?”
“Where did you ask me where I went?”
After listening to Jiang Xiuxiu’s questioning, the woman let out a weird chuckle.
She turned around slowly, and her voice became strange and gentle, full of bewitching flavor: “…If you want to know the answer, just follow me.”
Under the bright moonlight, Wang Xiaoyue turned around and turned her face to Jiang Xiuxiu.
I don’t know when, the clothes on her body changed from a thin white skirt to a gorgeous wedding dress that is red and cumbersome!
And Wang Xiaoyue’s face has also changed from an ordinary person’s face to a paper face made of paper.
She turned out to be the paper figurine bride in the sedan chair that Jiang Xiuxiu saw by the river bank before!
——The next second, Jiang Xiuxiu suddenly woke up.
In the darkness, she opened her eyes.
No one was calling her, there was no strange woman, the room was quiet, only her and Ye Ming’s subtle breathing.
The faint moonlight streamed in through the wooden windows.
Jiang Xiuxiu moved a little, only to find that her bed was cold.
What did that dream just mean?
Jiang Xiuxiu was at a loss, but she had a bad premonition in her heart.
Especially now that she is still awake.
According to the rules, ghosts at night generally do not shoot at sleeping players, but waking players are very dangerous.
Just when Jiang Xiuxiu was thinking of this, she suddenly heard a faint sound from a distance.
It was the sound of gongs and drums that she had heard during the day.
What’s the matter, are they still getting married in the middle of the night! ?
Jiang Xiuxiu held her breath and listened carefully for a while.
Then she found that as time passed, these noisy voices became louder.
That team was actually walking towards where they were!
Will they be coming towards themselves?
Thinking of this, Jiang Xiuxiu only felt that her palms were all sweaty.
After an unknown amount of time, the team finally arrived outside Wang’s house.
Then, they all stopped.
“The auspicious time has come—”
The joy of marriage, the sound, the music, and the sound passed through the silent air, reaching her ears.
Hearing this, Jiang Xiuxiu’s expression changed instantly.
No, she’s in danger now, she can’t be awake!
Jiang Xiuxiu made a decisive decision and grabbed a piece of wood next to the woodshed.
She aimed at the back of her neck, and without thinking, she gave herself a hard shot!
She didn’t want to play with these people. If she was found out, she would probably die.
If they can, wake her up from her sleep again!
As the stick hit his body, the dull pain instantly swept through.
In the next second, Jiang Xiuxiu’s eyes darkened, and he fainted completely.
…
The next morning, Jiang Xiuxiu woke up under Ye Ming’s shaking.
Rubbing her still uncomfortable neck, and looking at the bright sunlight outside, she knew that last night she was a fool.
It seems that as long as you can sleep in time, you can get rid of the danger.
It’s just that, considering her physical problems, she probably can’t use this method frequently…
Jiang Xiuxiu thought about it, and told Ye Ming about his experience last night.
“dream?”
However, after listening to Jiang Xiuxiu’s experience, Ye Ming showed a blank expression: “I slept well last night, and I didn’t dream of this.”
So, she is the only one who dreams of Wang Xiaoyue?
Jiang Xiuxiu was a little confused.
After that, the two washed up and went to the kitchen to pack something to eat.
While eating, Jiang Xiuxiu did not forget to observe other players.
Soon, she discovered that after last night, there were three fewer female players.
In addition, the male players looked at most of them in high spirits, while all the remaining female players, including Jiang Xiuxiu, looked bad.
Jiang Xiuxiu’s heart moved, and she leaned over and said something.
Then, she knew from other players that all female players had dreams about Wang Xiaoyue last night.