Chapter 125 Double Happiness Town (End) Victims

Many years ago, Xu Yao once asked her then "Mr. Xu": "Our family is already so rich, why do we continue to do harmful things?"

Mrs. Xu said: "If we don't do it, they will ask others to do it. If we can't give them what they want, they will no longer respect and love us, and we won't be able to gain a foothold here."

Once the engine of evil started, it could not be stopped. In order to live a comfortable life, generations of descendants of the Xu family lost their names, took on the mask of "Xu Po", and sacrificed innocent animals like witches in ancient rituals. sweet wine.

If nothing else happens, Xu Yao will become the new "Xu Po" one day in the future, and she will enjoy the wealth brought by sin with peace of mind. Day after day, year after year, she will become accustomed to benefiting herself at the expense of others and drinking blood. .

But Xu Yao doesn't want this.

Call her naive or stupid. She dreamed of ending the cycle of evil in her own generation, and even used the excuse of "love at first sight" to save a county magistrate from the townspeople who came to investigate Shuangxi Town.

She and the county magistrate used the pretense of preparing for a wedding to delay, and finally collected enough evidence. She sent the magistrate out of the town and took the initiative to lure away the pursuers.

She was forced to throw herself into a dry well. She thought that was the end of the matter, but she was horrified to discover that death was not the end of everything.

Her soul was trapped at the bottom of the well, being washed away by the cold and biting well water day and night, and watching her body rot into bones.

Some people are not afraid of death because they have ideals and perseverance and have enough courage to bear the outcome of death; some people are not afraid of death because they do not know what death is, are blinded by false self-movement, and give up life impulsively and hastily.

Xu Yao is undoubtedly the latter.

When she decided to redress the grievances of the victimized girls, the worst outcome she could think of was to lose her comfortable and comfortable life and walk away from the county magistrate.

When the townspeople pressed her closer and closer, she had the idea of ​​​​death in desperation. On the one hand, it seemed reasonable for the Xu family to pay for the death of so many innocent people; on the other hand, she secretly felt that her death might make others feel guilty.

And now, she began to regret it. Why did she have to endure so much pain and suffering when she had done nothing wrong? Why did those people not only not blame themselves when she was clearly dead, but they didn't even spare her soul?

After all, Xu Yao was just a sixteen-year-old girl when she died. She knew a little bit about everything, but didn't know much about anything.

In the first few years, she cried day and night. As her spiritual journey progressed, she would saturate the surrounding ground with ghostly energy, creating some visions and nightmares.

Later, more and more corpses were thrown into the well, and she was suppressed at the bottom of the well with countless innocent souls, unable to do anything.

Over the long years, she absorbed enough resentment, and gradually no longer cared about self-pity, but learned to resent and hate.

She complained about the cruelty of the townspeople and the ruthlessness of Po Xu, and she thought about how to take her life from them every day.

While waiting endlessly, she heard the voice of God.

God promised her to become the master of Shuangxi Town, and that Mrs. Xu and the townspeople would be controlled by her like zombies. Xi'er and Xu Wen, who had been killed recently, would also be reborn and involved in the seven-day cycle together.

Xu Yao let the townspeople die over and over again like a joke, letting the players easily clear the dungeon in the first few rounds, until they got bored, and then seriously carried out the deal with the god——

Kill the outsiders who enter Double Happiness Town.

It was undeniable that she did feel a long-lost pleasure from killing: Why could those people live while she died? Why should she be trapped at the bottom of a cold well, while those people could pass by and leave in a hurry?

Hundreds of years of imprisonment made Xu Yao accustomed to hating, and she even hated the county magistrate who she personally sent out of the town.

Why didn't he come to her? Why didn't he come to save her?

When they parted, he kept saying he loved her, but why didn't even a single person appear in the past hundred years?

Without him, she wouldn't be in this situation...

After listening to Xu Yao's story, Qisi sighed: "The county magistrate did not abandon you. He came back to look for you for a long time, but due to the concealment of the townspeople, he was never able to find any trace of you. He died Later, the soul was trapped in another world and asked about your whereabouts when seeing people. "

"I guess even though you are trapped at the bottom of the well, you can't move freely in the area of ​​the Temple of Death, and you can't see the faces of all the ghosts, right?"

Xu Yao nodded stiffly.

Qisi understood: "If my guess is correct, that evil god wants you to hate him, so he blocks you from him and deliberately lets you pass him by. I can take the liberty to ask, and do it with you The image and name of the evil god involved in the transaction?”

Xu Yao's face was as green as if it were dripping with rot, and his eyes were empty: "He was wearing a black robe. I can't remember his exact appearance, but I only remember that his eyes were golden... His honorable name is 'Free at the Boundary of Life and Death'" The Lord of Time and Space, the Master of Fate who governs disasters and blessings, the immortal being who announces doomsday and apocalypse.'"

The moment the last word fell, Qiss felt a line of sight descending from the sky like a real thing, staring at him.

The "click" sound of broken glass was heard from the inspiration, and then nothing happened. The barrier of the world cracked and stopped the process of damage. The high-dimensional beings that were blocked outside could only look out into the distance.

Qisi knew that this was the contract [Forbidden by the Gods] that came into play.

He touched his chin calmly, and with a charlatan-like attitude, he brought out a line from his memory: "The one you are trading with is the most cruel and terrifying evil god in the world. He has the same malice towards all living beings. What he likes to do most is to induce them to commit crimes and watch them struggle with original sin."

"Now that things have come to this, he will definitely not let you and the county magistrate be happy, unless..."

Qisi swallowed the rest of his words, and then approached Xu Yao mysteriously: "You may not know that there is actually more than one god in this world. As far as I know, there is a great existence called "Qi"..."

Three minutes later, Qisi used up his pitiful positive vocabulary to package "Qi" into a kind god who is considerate and nosy, and said that Xu Yao is welcome to pray at any time. The only price to pay is to find a way to kill Xu Wen.

Xu Yao did not comment, lowered her head in thought; Qisi did not say anything more.

On the system interface, the silver-white prompt text came late.

[Except you, all players have died. The "guaranteed death toll" mechanism has been triggered]

[It is detected that you no longer have the conditions to complete the main quest. Do you want to give up the main quest? ]

Qisi uttered a "yes" gloomily.

The result was as unsatisfactory as expected, but it had to be this way.

The main quest was to take Xu Wen away from Shuangxi Town, but Xu Wen had clearly stood on the enemy's side and did not need the player's help at all.

The most troublesome thing was that as long as she stayed in the territory of the Funeral Temple, Xu Yao would not be able to get through for a while, and could not kill her, so naturally there was no way to bring her body out...

Qisi couldn't go down the well again and say to her with a smug face, "The guy who made a deal with you has been driven out. You will accompany me again," right?

[You have given up the main quest, and your evaluation level will be greatly reduced]

[Congratulations to the player for completing the team survival dungeon "Shuangxi Town"]

The system voice was as cold as ever, and the word "congratulations" sounded full of irony.

Qi Sixu closed his eyes and watched the light dim, just like the screen before the opening of the film, and at a certain moment there was sound and light.

First, there was a passage of ancient text.

[There was a small opening under the well, as if there was light. Zhang Sheng was panicking and didn't know where to go, so he went in through the opening and suddenly felt enlightened. ]

[The land was flat and the houses were neat. Men, women, old and young, all wore funeral clothes, thinking that they were in the netherworld. ]

[Entering the funeral temple, burning incense and telling the grievances. The oracle said: "On the sixth day, guard the spirit temple and avoid paper people; on the seventh day, find a fellow traveler and carry the coffin out." ]

[Zhang Sheng did as he said and finally returned to his hometown. When he arrived in the county, he went to the magistrate of Pengcheng and told him so, so he sent the county magistrate to follow him. ]

Then there was a modern image.

In an office with white walls, two men were discussing the matter of Shuangxi Town fiercely.

"Director, someone has disappeared in Shuangxi Town again. It is basically certain that Shuangxi Town is a regional weird event. I went to measure the weird fluctuations around it, and it is at least a B-level weird." The speaker was a young man with tied hair in a white uniform. His face could not be seen clearly, but the words written on the ID card on his chest could be seen clearly - [Weird Investigation Bureau].

Behind the desk facing the young man, a middle-aged man asked calmly: "Xiao Xiao, did those missing people take the initiative to enter the scope of Shuangxi Town?"

"Yes." The young man said self-reproachfully, "If we act faster and set up the no-travel circle earlier, they would not..."

The middle-aged man interrupted him: "At least now, we know how this weirdness works. As long as we don't enter a specific range, we will not be affected. Report to the headquarters immediately, designate Shuangxi Town as a no-travel zone, and then build a wall with cement."

"Then... what about those missing people?"

The middle-aged man sighed: "Do you know what B-level weirdness means? Even if we fill our entire branch with it, we may not be able to handle it well, and it may even cause changes! Now it's like this It is the best state. If you don't get close, nothing will happen. If it needs to swallow a few people regularly, I will ask the parliament to throw a few criminals in. "

"But four people have disappeared, and their parents and children are sitting in the police station..."

"Let the police station delay it. If it doesn't work, transfer a few homeless people from the army to fill in, which is also an explanation to them. They just want some money. If they still don't stop, treat them as a resistance organization."

"..."

"Xiao Xiao, you need to know that we can't save everyone, and we can't afford unnecessary losses. In the face of the fate of all mankind, small sacrifices are necessary..."

The picture slowly faded, the sound gradually faded away, and lines of silver-white text were refreshed one by one.

[Individual suffering is not worth mentioning for the comfort of the group. The vested interests weave and advocate morality, cherish their feathers, stand idly by, and call it "necessary sacrifice"]

["Shuangxi Town" Normal End-"Sacrifice" has been included]

[Automatically transfer out of the copy in three minutes]

After seeing the glaring words "Normal End", Qi Si made up his mind to record the evil god known as the "Lord of Time and Space" in his notebook as soon as he left the copy.

However, what he cares more about now is the "Strange Investigation Bureau" that appeared in the image.

Does this agency only exist in the background of the copy, or is it also possible to appear in reality?

…

In the underground world, Li Yao walked aimlessly in a white alley, mixed with shadowy souls, and his figure was blurred like fog.

She remembered that she had died, but her memory of death had been erased. As an NPC providing clues, she wandered endlessly in Shuangxi Town.

Now, although she has recovered her past memories, she also knows that when this copy is over, the players will either die here or go their separate ways, and only she will return to the starting point and become an NPC who knows nothing again.

The past was muddled, and the future will also be muddled, with no hope or ending.

Li Yao sighed to herself, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a golden light from the corner of her eyes, rising from the distant Funeral Temple.

This was a scene that had never been encountered in any previous cycle. Li Yao chased the golden light and walked all the way to the Funeral Temple and pushed the door in.

There were no statues or figures in the temple, only a huge coffin placed in the center of the hall.

The golden light leaked from the gap in the coffin.

Li Yao walked forward and pushed the coffin lid open with great effort. All the light disappeared the moment the coffin lid fell to the ground, leaving only a pale corpse lying in the coffin.

"Qi Wen?" Li Yao recognized the identity of the person in the coffin and exclaimed.

She half-dragged and half-pulled the person out of the coffin, touched the other's cold skin and stiff muscles, and judged that the young man had been dead for a long time.

Although she knew that she was an NPC and "Qi Wen" was a player, with completely different identities, Li Yao still felt a little sad.

She knew that death was not pleasant, so she always hoped that others could live well and not have to endure the pain of death.

"If you die here, you should also become a paper man, right? It's a pity that I will soon forget you. I will probably be chased by you in the next round of the game, right?" Li Yao muttered to herself with a wry smile.

Maybe her memory had just recovered, and there were too many things she couldn't say, so she leaned against the coffin and talked ramblingly.

From being killed to saving, saving, saving...

If it was the living Qi Si lying here, he would probably be disgusted to the point of falling headfirst. Fortunately, Qi Si was now mocking the hypocrisy of "humanism" with the images of NE clearance, and could not hear the glorious past of Li Yao, who was separated from him by a world.

"The last copy... um..." Li Yao was distracted while talking, and her lowered hand brushed the tip of the corpse's right little finger.

The next second, a string of prompts popped up in front of her:

[Name: Evil God Finger Bone]

[Type: Prop]

[Effect:...]

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