Chapter 264 "The Remote Village"

The light group representing the spiritual root became bigger and bigger, and everything in Du Ziyuan's dream began to become clear.

Suddenly, he punched out in his dream, dispelling the haze in front of him, and his cultivation base also entered the sixth floor of the spiritual cultivation.

"wake up!"

With a thought, he immediately withdrew from the dream. The moment he opened his eyes, he had the illusion that everything in front of him became clearer, which was brought about by the improvement of mental power.

The combat power of the state of spiritual cultivation is not high, but the effect is still somewhat. Now that he has reached the sixth heaven, he can already use some small techniques such as hypnosis. However, with his current strength of mental strength, it will be a bit difficult to deal with some warriors in the middle stage of Yuan Gathering Realm.

However, he didn't care much about these. The biggest benefit to him from this improvement in cultivation was that he had a more perfect control over the writing pen.

Although the reading pen can draw quickly, it is not as detailed as hand-painting, and the gap can be seen at a glance by industry insiders. Even if ordinary readers can't say it, they still have a sense of disobedience. So he didn't use the reading pen in the second round.

He put on the reading pen and tried again, and it was much better this time, but it was far from perfect.

"Right now, at most, only 90% of the effect is hand-painted, and at least 95% is enough." Du Ziyuan casually threw the painting into the wastebasket.

Manga is a business that pays great attention to details. Sometimes the color difference and shape of a light and dark area will affect the visual effect of the entire picture. Du Ziyuan still has high requirements for this aspect.

After he broke through, he stabilized again, and the third round of competition finally arrived.

The evaluation mode this time is similar to the second round, but this time instead of voting, it is changed to scoring.

Each of the 10,000 judges has a quota of 10 points, and the guests are only responsible for commenting, not scoring.

In the end, 1,000 highest scores and 1,000 lowest scores will be removed, and the full score will be 80,000 points, depending on who gets more.

This may be to avoid the loss of the book that was read first.

Because the number of players has decreased, the entire 8-in-4 knockout match can be completed in one day.

In the first round, the pine nuts and Wu Guo's prince floated to drink.

"Little San, come on!" Du Ziyuan cheered her up.

"Don't call me Xiaosan! Just wait and see how I cut him." Song Zi glared at him, and then confidently walked to the center of the stage.

Floating Cup Drink also walked over silently, the expression on his face was always like an iceberg that could not be melted.

The game officially started, and according to the result of the lottery, the pine nuts were served first.

This time the two got a suspense novel called "You Yao Zhuang". The story tells that 9 people who do not know each other are invited by a certain existence to a place called Youyaozhuang. As a result, they were killed one by one, but the murderer disappeared without a trace.

The way out of Youyaozhuang was blocked, everyone fell into panic, and the privacy of the nine people was revealed one by one.

It turned out that these 9 people were once related to a family, and that family was wiped out 10 years ago.

The black hand behind the scenes obviously came for revenge, and one or more of these nine people must be the murderer who caused the family to be wiped out. However, it is not clear who is behind the scenes, so he simply recruited all 9 people. Anyway, none of these people is a good person, and death is not a pity.

The reason for killing one by one may be that on the one hand, they want to know the truth, and on the other hand, they may want to torture the murderer. The author didn't write the specifics, these are the inferences of several characters in the book.

The novel is divided into 4 volumes, of which 6 people died in the first 3 volumes. According to the clues given, it is very likely that the mastermind behind the scenes was among the 9 people. The last volume should give a perfect explanation and fill in some unsolved mysteries in the previous ones.

However, the author who wrote this novel tried to court the publisher's daughter, but the daughter didn't like him. In a fit of anger, he switched to a competitor of his old club, and this "You Yao Zhuang" naturally had no follow-up.

Later, he died because of heavy stomach bleeding caused by alcoholism. "You Yao Zhuang" has become an eternal mystery.

Although merit has various benefits, it is not omnipotent. If you commit suicide, you will still die even if you have millions of merits.

The family whose family was exterminated was Li, and the nine people were: a doctor, a book boy, a butcher, a fast catcher, a thief, a showgirl, a restaurant owner, a street gangster, and the old neighbor next door.

The doctor was the first to die. He misdiagnosed the illness and doctored the Li family's son to death, but he didn't want to lose money, so he arranged for the government to sue Lao Li and broke his leg.

The owner of the restaurant was the second to die. He was originally a partner of the Li family, but he swallowed the entire restaurant while the Li family was in trouble.

The street gangster was the third to die. After Lao Li went to sue and was beaten out, the gangster stole his family heirloom jade.

The old Wang next door was the fourth to die. He had an affair with Mrs. Li and plotted to kill Lao Li.

The butcher was the fifth to die. He coveted the Li family's daughter, but was rejected when he came to propose a marriage. Before leaving, he put down his cruel words.

The thief was the sixth to die. He broke into the house and was discovered by Li's daughter. He suffocated her and threw her into the well.

The book boy, the fast catcher, and the singing girl remained. Their relationship with the family has not been revealed, but there is still a bit of foreshadowing.

For example, when the book boy appeared on the stage, he was a juren, with a personable demeanor. The third volume reveals that he went to work as a school boy for Li's son because his family had no money. After the Li family was destroyed, he disappeared.

The catcher was the one who broke Lao Li's leg back then. He and the doctor actually knew each other, but they didn't admit it at first. In addition, the book boy also knew Lao Wang and the doctor, but in order to hide his identity, he pretended not to know them at first.

The last singer is said to be Lao Li's best friend back then. Lao Li rented a courtyard for her outside and hid a lot of private money in her. However, after she learned of Lao Li's accident, she immediately ran away with the money, completely ignoring the slightest affection in the past.

None of the three who survived seemed to be the ones who would avenge the Li family. If it had to be said, Shutong was the most likely. And from the beginning, the author used the most pen and ink on him, and there was even an emotional scene with a singing girl, which looked like a male protagonist no matter how you looked at it.

Some people guess that there must be some unknown story behind this book boy.

Of course, some people also speculate that one of the first six people may have died in suspended animation, and the real murderer is actually hidden among these six people. This technique is not uncommon in suspense novels, and the effect is generally very good.

The readers of the last group think that the murderer is not actually one of the nine people, but that there is a tenth person in "You Yao Zhuang", and that person is the real mastermind behind the scenes. He created an atmosphere where the murderer was among the nine, just to let them kill each other.