Chapter 44 - Lonely Village by the River (10)
Time passed quickly, and soon it was night.
As night fell, the whole village was shrouded in darkness.
Ye Ming had no objection to Jiang Xiuxiu’s arrangement. Not long after he left, the players all came to Wang Xiaoyue’s grandfather’s house.
Ye Ming didn’t tell them about Jiang Xiuxiu’s existence, and they also thought that Jiang Xiuxiu had disappeared directly like the other players in the previous two nights.
After the players all entered Wang Xiaoyue’s grandfather’s house, Jiang Xiuxiu quietly left.
It was her decision to go back to the Wang family, so she didn’t tell Ye Ming where she would go, only that she would hide outside.
After the disappearance of three male players last night, presumably the players only need to use their brains to understand that they can no longer take things from villagers.
In this case, there may be very few players who can meet the conditions for becoming a bride.
In this case, Jiang Xiuxiu, the “bride” who has escaped, will inevitably become the number one target that the villagers want to attack.
She knew that tonight, she might not be able to survive smoothly.
The night is the time when the villagers sacrifice their brides. She managed to escape yesterday, but it is difficult to use the same method today.
In particular, Xu Bai is also very likely to tell the villagers her location through prayer and other means.
Therefore, she must quickly find a new breakthrough before the villagers can catch her!
When they arrived at the Wang’s house, Jiang Xiuxiu carefully walked around the broken door.
She didn’t go anywhere else, but entered Wang Xiaoyue’s room and came to the front of these messed up cabinets.
Originally, there were still old toys of Wang Xiaoyue and Wang Xiaoyun, but now, it is empty and there is almost nothing left.
The only things left are some children’s clothes and shoes, and those elementary school textbooks.
Maybe the villagers also felt that this thing was useless, so they didn’t take it away.
“Wang Xiaoyue? Wang Xiaoyun? Are you there?”
After Jiang Xiuxiu came in, he lowered his voice and called out several times.
But she waited five or six minutes, but didn’t get a response.
She remembered that the last time she saw the Wang sisters, it was still in a dream.
At that time, the Wang family sisters also became paper brides, vaguely reminding the player of her current situation.
Jiang Xiuxiu pondered, maybe if I want to meet her again, I have to fall asleep first?
Looking at the time now, it’s still six or seven o’clock in the evening. She hurried to sleep at this time, and then woke up at ninety o’clock and stayed up late, it should be too late.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xiuxiu hurriedly found a place and lay down straight.
She didn’t sleep much last night because of various things, and the floor in the temple was too hard, so she didn’t sleep well.
Until today, she woke up early in the morning, and she has been worried and tense, afraid of being discovered.
Now she is indeed a little tired, and it is easy to fall asleep.
Putting those straws under her body, she quickly felt sleepy from the gentle touch.
Gradually, Jiang Xiuxiu fell into sleep.
In the dream, as she wished, she saw Wang Xiaoyue again.
Just like last time, Wang Xiaoyue stood in front of her with her back to her.
Wang Xiaoyue was wearing a thin white skirt and her long black hair was scattered behind her, making her look thinner and paler, and her whole body was like a ghost.
She finally showed up.
In this dream, Jiang Xiuxiu’s consciousness was still very clear, and she knew that she was dreaming.
After discovering the figure in front of her, she crawled out of the straw pile and asked tentatively, “Are you Wang Xiaoyue or Wang Xiaoyun?”
Although he asked this question, Jiang Xiuxiu actually already had the answer in his heart.
No matter how similar twin sisters are, there will be differences, not to mention that one of them is studying at school all the time, while the other has to exercise every day for farm work.
If she is Wang Xiaoyue…she should not turn her back to the players, and her back to these “classmates of Wang Xiaoyue”.
“I’m Wang Xiaoyun.”
This time, the ghost with its back to Jiang Xiuxiu finally moved.
It sighed faintly and said, “I offered to replace my sister and marry the River God.”
Sure enough, Jiang Xiuxiu thought to himself.
There was no plot of harming each other between the two Wang family sisters with deep feelings. Instead, the sister took the initiative to express that she was willing to sacrifice for her sister.
But her sister died, and her body was still hidden in the haystack.
“After I appeared last time, I don’t know why, I was discovered by the river god.”
Wang Xiaoyun did not wait for Jiang Xiuxiu to respond, and continued: “I can only tell you, before I got married, my sister once came to me in private, because there were other people next to me at that time, so she vaguely said. Tell me that the way to get rid of the river **** has been found by her, and she has written it down on something that the villagers can’t see.”
“She was later killed by the villagers because she told the villagers that she and her classmates had the power to kill the river god.” Wang Xiaoyun said at the end.
It turned out that Wang Xiaoyue’s death was the reason.
And the reason why the villagers are afraid of players, Jiang Xiuxiu also understands.
Just like villagers can restrain players by destroying food and shelter, these players also have places that can deter villagers and even restrain them.
But, what is the way to get rid of the river god?
To be recorded on something that the villagers can’t even see? Where is that thing?
Jiang Xiuxiu was overjoyed when she heard the words, and wanted to keep asking.
However, before she could speak, Wang Xiaoyun’s figure was like a bubble, and with a slight shake, it scattered directly from her dream.
She left.
The moment Wang Xiaoyun left, the dream around Jiang Xiuxiu collapsed instantly, she opened her eyes and woke up.
After waking up, she tilted her head first, looked at the time, and found that less than five minutes had passed since the time when she fell asleep.
“After I appeared last time, I don’t know why, I was discovered by the river god.”
Jiang Xiuxiu was lying on the straw pile, recalling what Wang Xiaoyun said just now, and gradually realized in his heart that under Xu Bai’s supervision, Wang Xiaoyun should not be able to appear for too long.
Maybe in the last round of the game, there were also ghosts with such a wrong position, so Xu Bai could be vigilant?
Jiang Xiuxiu secretly guessed.
Wang Xiaoyun appeared for such a short time now, and she only dared to come here quietly while it was only six or seven o’clock now, not when Xu Bai was haunting.
She came and left in a hurry, but left Jiang Xiuxiu with a crucial message-how to get rid of the river god.
But in the same way, there is a bit of trouble here, that is, Wang Xiaoyue did not directly tell Wang Xiaoyun how to deal with the river **** at that time.
She left only one vague, even confusing sentence.
What the villagers can’t see…
And the last sentence Wang Xiaoyun said, “She and her classmates can have the power to kill the river god”?
However, when these players came over, not only were they useless, but they were united by the villagers and directly sacrificed to the River God as a sacrifice bride!
They didn’t get any information or tips from Wang Xiaoyue at all. At most, Wang Xiaoyue sent a text message to tell them that she was locked at home and asked them to save her.
Jiang Xiuxiu recalled all the details since entering the game, but couldn’t figure out where it would be.
Is there anything that the villagers can’t see, but Wang Xiaoyue and her classmates can see it?
What is there between them and the villagers that is very different, or even completely different?
Is it because they have all left the village and seen the outside world…or is it because of something else?
After thinking for a while, Jiang Xiuxiu’s eyes suddenly narrowed.
She stood up quickly, walked quickly to the desk, picked up the elementary school textbooks, and opened them carefully.
Jiang Xiuxiu thought that the biggest difference between Wang Xiaoyue and the villagers was indeed that she had left the village.
But the reason she left the village was because she read books!
She can write, she can read, and the people here, because they have lived in the countryside since childhood, don’t even have a TV, so 80% of them can’t read.
Even in this search, the two villagers felt that the books were useless and threw them down.
If the method Wang Xiaoyue said was hidden in the book, then Jiang Xiuxiu might really be able to figure out how to break the game through the content of the book.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xiuxiu hurriedly lowered his head and took the lead in picking up the Chinese textbook with the most words.
She opened the catalog and looked at it, and found that a small red circle was marked in front of a certain text in the textbook.
When he first entered the game and found this textbook, Jiang Xiuxiu had also seen this mark.
However, because students are willing to mark the textbooks when they are studying, and she is too lazy to read the content of the elementary school textbooks, she did not pay attention.
But now, she felt that this small red circle seemed to be an invisible guide, telling her that it was here.
She quickly turned to this page, moved her eyes, and quickly saw the title of this text——
“Ximen Leopard Governs Ye”.
The content of this text is precisely about the fact that after Ximen Bao became the magistrate of Ye County, he found that there was a tradition of river gods marrying wives in this place, so he tried to solve the superstition, so that town officials and witches would no longer harm the people.
The River God’s marriage…isn’t the situation she’s experiencing now exactly the same?
Jiang Xiuxiu thought, that’s it.
Wang Xiaoyue believes that the way to get the villagers out of the superstition of the river **** is here.
She carefully read the text over and over several times until she could memorize it completely.
Time passed little by little, and at ninety o’clock in the evening, and when she felt tired again, Jiang Xiuxiu put the textbook in another place, and went back to sleep on the straw.
Closing her eyes, she soon fell asleep again.
On the river bank not far away, there was a faint sound of the beating of gongs and drums.