Chapter 549

【Please~】

Liu Qigui, who was walking at the front, just waved gently and walked forward with a smile on his face, walking step by step like a tour guide.

And the appearance of the entire Liujia Village was gradually revealed in the sight of several people.

Chapter 115: The words of Liu Qigui, the head of the Liu family, and the distortion of Liujia Village

In the third hour of the fourth week, four players, Gao Hai and Zhen Fei, as well as Tang Yuan and Mao Ge, entered the [Liujia Village] area.

Before actually entering the village, Gao Hai had imagined what he might see, and due to past experience, of course all he could think of were all kinds of bad situations. But when he actually came here, he found that this place seemed to be just an ordinary small village. From entering the village to sitting down at the home of the patriarch Liu Qigui, Gao Hai let go of his senses and scanned the entire village several times, but he still couldn't find anything that could be called twisted and weird. .

The only thing that can be said to be special is probably the observations of the villagers. Along the way, Gao Hai noticed the sight of at least a hundred villagers. They either stood on the roadside and stared at Gao Hai openly, or they secretly observed from behind the windows, from the roof, or from behind the grass and shrubs.

To be honest, the feeling of being stared at was not very good, but even if these people paid such vigilant attention to them, Gao Hai still couldn't feel much hostility.

In fact, these villagers had almost no negative emotions, so much so that Gao Hai actually felt a bit of friendliness from them.

To be honest, this can no longer be described as strange.

It is really difficult for Gao Hai to understand what is going on with these people. There seems to be a certain disconnect between their behavior and consciousness, which makes it impossible for them to have a true understanding of the situation deep in their hearts even if they show strong vigilance and suspicion. of negative emotions.

This made Gao Hai couldn't help but wonder, if he attacked these villagers, would they still be unable to generate hostility? Or if they ambush and attack players like them like the villagers in Lijia Village, would they still be unable to sense hostility? It's like this kind of sense has disappeared from their bodies, so there is no way to sense it anyway.

Gao Hai was not sure which answer was correct for the moment. But this village, which did not detect many abnormalities at first, is now very wrong in Gao Hai's eyes.

If something really goes wrong... Well, release the second bomb immediately, and then release the police officers. You can also use the blessings delivered in the future. In short, use all the strongest attack methods. Get ready to come out.

While thinking, Gao Hai had already followed the man named Liu Qigui to his home and sat down on a seat in the lobby.

Compared with the ancestral home of the Li family, the house of the head of the Liu family is much smaller. Although it is obviously different from ordinary villagers' houses, it is only a two-story house made of mud and wood as the main materials. Moreover, this house has obviously been around for a long time. It looks like there are signs of repairs in many places, and the roof is even leaking.

[Mountain Village, poor hospitality, please forgive me]

Liu Qigui also sat down and motioned to a young woman standing next to him to serve tea to Gao Hai and others, and then said with a smile with a somewhat apologetic look.

"This place looks pretty good."

Gao Hai observed the surroundings vigilantly while casually speaking to the head of the Liu family.

[Thanks to the blessing of the empress, if the empress had not protected our Liu family from generation to generation, we would have been gone long ago]

Liu Qigui grinned, revealing a mouth full of dark yellow teeth.

"Before you settled here in Xiaoheishan, was the Fox Lady already protecting you?"

This sentence was asked by Tangyuan. While others were still observing, the [Historian] could not wait to intervene in the exchange.

Gao Hai could see that this girl was a little excited.

Perhaps finding native life forms that can truly communicate in the dungeon is indeed a big deal for this group of researchers. After Gao Hai has gone through these dungeons, Alice from Tenghua Middle School can barely be regarded as a dungeon native with the ability to communicate. The problem is that Alice is not something that can be contacted in a friendly manner. Even if historians can find her, they will not be able to obtain any effective information. And except for aliens like Alice, normal monsters are even less likely to communicate well. So in a sense, the dungeon [Infant Crying Village] is the first opportunity for players to come into contact with dungeon creatures that are rational and can communicate.

Well, actually it should be said that they are humans living in the dungeon... But Gao Hai is very suspicious of these Liujiacun people who seem to be normal humans. After all, his blessing has been giving warnings, warning him that none of the villagers are normal people, so who can be sure whether this abnormal standard limits whether it must be mental or includes physical. It doesn't matter if it's like Warhammer 40k and says the skulls are all human-like, but when a genetic test turns out that the skull is less human than a banana, that would be funny.

[That's right, the Fox Goddess has been protecting our Liu family for a long time. It was because of the guidance of the Fox Goddess that we were able to come to Xiaohei Mountain, settle down here, and reproduce here. It can be said that without the Fox Goddess, there would be no Liu family]

Liu Qigui's smile became even brighter, and he nodded happily in response.

"Then did the Li family and the Zhang family also get the guidance of the Fox Goddess and come here with you?"

After thinking for a while, Gao Hai asked again and observed the other party's reaction.

This time he quickly saw the expression of anger and hatred on Liu Qigui's face. The whole face of this middle-aged man was distorted in an instant, and then slowly returned to normal. Finally, after about two or three minutes of silence, he laughed again.

[That's right, when the world was in turmoil and chaos, the Goddess guided us to flee all the way to Xiaohei Mountain where He was. And on the way, we accepted the beasts of the Li family and the group of idiots of the Zhang family. The Queen taught us to be kind, so we kindly accepted the poor people who fled like us. However, it was because we chose to release kindness that we ended up suffering the disaster later...】

With a long sigh, Liu Qigui seemed to recall something from a long time ago. It was hard to tell whether his expression was nostalgic or regretful.

At this time, two half-grown children ran past the lobby with laughter. When Liu Qigui saw the two children, he blinked and seemed to remember something. He motioned the young woman standing not far away to come forward again. After saying a few words to her, the woman walked out of the lobby and led the two children away.

This scene seemed to be fine, but the concubine Zhen, who was sitting next to Gao Hai, still frowned and stared at the direction where the woman and the child left for a while before retracting her gaze.

[Guests are guests. Please stay here for a meal later.]

Liu Qigui said with a gentle smile.

"Has accepting the Li and Zhang families brought you trouble?"

Gao Hai did not respond to Liu Qigui's words, but continued to ask with a frown.

[No, no, no, although the Zhang family is a bunch of idiots, they are not evil after all. After all, they only hurt themselves in the end and never hurt anyone.]

[It was because we accepted the beasts of the Li family that a big problem occurred. At the beginning, our ancestors met the ancestors of the Li family while fleeing and walked together. At first, we thought that we were all miserable people and it would be good to rely on each other. But who would have thought that they were actually a group of bandits, all beasts who killed innocent people indiscriminately, just a group of uncivilized beasts]

[Hehe, it is said that when they first met our ancestors, they also wanted to kill people and rob money, but they didn't expect that we had the protection of the Fox Goddess. When they found that they couldn't rob, they knelt down and begged for mercy, saying that they were also poor people. It was also because our ancestors were kind-hearted that they accepted them like this. If I had met them at that time, I would have chopped up all those beasts and fed them to pigs and chickens. Alas, if it weren't for this group of ungrateful wolves, our Liu family wouldn't have suffered so much grievance! 】

Liu Qigui said, and he touched the cane beside the chair and knocked it on the ground with some excitement.

The words of the head of the Liu family can be matched with some information obtained from the previous investigation. Well, from this point of view, no matter what state he is in now, what he said is still credible. But we can't believe it all so easily. After all, we are just a group of outsiders. As a patriarch, he left us in the lobby and talked so much. It is not a normal behavior. We have to continue to observe.

Gao Hai, who was still thinking silently in his head, did not ask the next question immediately.

Before Gao Hai's short silence ended, Brother Mao, who had been sitting quietly, first signaled Tangyuan, who wanted to ask another question immediately, to restrain himself, and then slowly spoke after a few minutes of consideration.

"This old man, since you have had so many conflicts with the Li family, then a group of Taoist priests went to the Li family. Do you know about this?"

Regarding this Liujia Village, Brother Mao did not dare to make a judgment easily about what the state of Liu Qigui was.

Although he is a well-informed Red Moon-level player, in the dungeon [Infant Crying Village], Brother Mao asked himself that he had seen enough strange and uncommon things in just a few hours. Therefore, more often, he just observed silently, acted according to the arrangements of others, and did not express his thoughts and opinions.

After chatting with the old man for a while, Brother Mao noticed that Gao Hai was obviously not sure about the situation, and was just chatting along with the old man to test the situation. Tang Yuan was a little excited after discovering that the old man Liu Qigui might have complete thinking ability, so he was a little worried that if she spoke, the topic would go off track. After thinking about it, he took the initiative to take over the conversation and try to get more information by breaking the ice on his side.

According to the information from Mr. Gao, the persecution of Ge Yuan and his group might involve both Lijia Village and Liujia Village. In other words, the annoying Lijia Village mentioned by this man might not have a very bad relationship with the Liu family, or at least it was not too bad in the past, which is obviously contradictory to Liu Qigui's expression.

If the topic itself does not involve the power of strange rules, then it is difficult to determine whether Liu Qigui's answer is true or false, and we need to try to judge it with obsessions and blessings. If it involves strange rules, then whether Liu Qigui will change can clearly confirm the situation in all aspects.

While thinking, Brother Cat had concentrated his energy and carefully observed the changes in Liu Qigui's reaction.

Gao Hai and Tang Yuan also understood the reason why Brother Cat asked this question, so they became more vigilant and observed the surrounding situation.

Will there be any changes?

Generally speaking, if the topic of communication triggers the special rules of monsters, those disguised monsters should immediately reveal their true colors and hunt down the offenders, so you must be prepared to start a war immediately.

Gao Hai, who was thinking this way, saw Liu Qigui just sighing slightly, with a look of shame on his face.

[Mr. Ge, our Liu family really feels sorry for him]

[We didn’t expect that he would be tortured by the Li family, and we didn’t expect that someone of our own would listen to the beasts of the Li family and get involved. This was the biggest mistake of our Liu family]

[If you know this, you must have some relationship with Mr. Ge, right? I'm really sorry. It's really embarrassing to make excuses now. But if you make a mistake, you have to stand up straight and get beaten. That's right, Mr. Ge and his disciples were harmed by people from the Li family and the Liu family. Although we later found those bewitched rats and buried them all alive to appease the dead. But the bodies of the old gentleman and his disciples were basically snatched away by the Li family. In the end, we only buried a small number of them]

The more Liu Qigui talked about it, the more guilty he looked on his face, and his face was full of regret and pain.

[To be honest, Mr. Ge came to help us in the first place, and all of us in Liujia Village were very grateful to him]

[Without the efforts of the old gentleman and his disciples, the problem at the "Bottomless Lake" might not have been solved at all. Thanks to the old man’s paper figures, those things of unknown origin that always attack our Liu family can be suppressed, and our Liu family can no longer have a bunch of people die every year]

[If I could do it all over again, I would definitely not let something like this happen again. Alas, Mr. Ge, he really shouldn’t die like this]

Liu Qigui's sincere look amidst the lamentations made even experienced players like Mao Ge and Tangyuan unable to tell whether he was showing his true feelings, pretending to be someone else, or whether he was just a trick imitating a living person. Just a performance.

However, there was something he mentioned that made Gao Hai very concerned.

[Bottomless Lake]? I remember that people from the Moyu Gang checked that place in the second week. It was a lake in the forest, and there seemed to be many dead babies in it?

So is that place related to Liujia Village? Is there a core obsession that has yet to be discovered, hidden in that place?

Anyway, now there is a new direction. But at the moment, I am paying attention to the dead village full of mass graves. The other Red Moon-level players who are left behind have to be prepared for unexpected situations. They can't spare anyone to go there for the time being... Well, you can let Lao Guo went to explore the limelight first, which was an option.

When Gao Hai was thinking this, a warning from the true concubine suddenly came from the spiritual link.

{The voices of the two children completely disappeared, including their heartbeats and breathing, all stopped}

The true concubine, who used Eriko Asamoto's auditory blessing to monitor the two children who were taken away, spoke seriously to Gao Hai through the private link on her black watch.

{Did you hear anything not right? }

Realizing that something might be wrong, Gao Hai immediately asked. At the same time, he turned on his auditory blessing to scan the surroundings, but did not hear any unusual sounds.

{Not yet, there are a lot of noisy sounds covering each other up, it sounds like there are a lot of people busy. Hmm...these sounds are very messy, very messy, and it seems that their actions have been accelerated, as if the flow of time has accelerated, and it is difficult to distinguish the clear content. But, um, I heard that right, I thought I heard the sound of grease splashing? It seems that there is also the sound of chopping vegetables along with it? Ah, those voices stopped}

The true concubine was quickly relaying what she heard.

It was also at this time that Gao Hai suddenly noticed that a large table had appeared in the lobby, and several pairs of bowls and chopsticks were placed on it.

Liu Qigui, who had been sitting on the chair chatting just now, had stood up, sat down at the main seat of the table very naturally, and signaled to Gao Hai and others that they could sit down freely.

[After chatting for a while, everyone must be a little thirsty and hungry, right? Let’s eat at my house at noon. It just so happens that I can treat you to a Liu family’s specialty dish in these two days]

The man is smiling.

Several young men and women had already entered the house carrying a large pot that could hold even a person and placed it on the table.

You can smell a refreshing fragrance.

No, it's not so much the fragrance as it is the surging, fascinating vitality.

It seems that as long as you take a good breath, you can gain a few more years of life, allowing your body to recover from all the wear and tear caused by age, and return to its true prime.

So vigorous, like the wonderful vitality of the rising sun.

The moment the lid of the pot was lifted, the truly powerful and immature vitality of the several players present was clearly seen.

"..."

Although he was mentally prepared, Gao Hai still fell into silence for a while after confirming the facts before him.

The real concubine, who had seen such a scene for the first time, had her pupils constricted, her eyes wide open and her mouth opened, not knowing what to say.

"I'll go, claypot rice..."

Tangyuan complained in a low voice, and Brother Mao turned his head away without saying a word.

He took a piece of rice.

Liu Qigui, who remained calm, scooped a thick soup from the fragrant dish and put it to his mouth.

[Slurp——～]

The sound of tasting was extremely clear.

[Slurp——～]

The look of tasting was extremely intoxicated.

[Slurp——Hu——It’s really good~]

After tasting, he smacked his lips gently, showing an endless aftertaste.

Then, Liu Qigui turned around and showed a very friendly smile to the players who had not yet sat down.

Just like when he first appeared in front of the players, he smiled friendly and peacefully without any hostility.

[Come on, guests, such opportunities are rare]

He said sincerely to Gao Hai and others.

[My children and grandchildren blessed by the empress are now in the harvesting year. There will be no more delicious and long-lived delicacy than this]

[Please do not refuse, guests, and come and experience the secret of our Liujia Village, this real longevity soup. I can live for hundreds of years, but I can't live without this delicacy]

[Hehehe~]

Chapter 116 The self-contained twisted object and the confirmed third core

To be honest, when seeing that thing, Gao Hai found that he had basically no mental fluctuations.

There was no feeling of surprise at all.

There was no emotional change because of the bloody appearance of the thing.

There was just a feeling of "ah, it's really like this", and then nothing.

Unknowingly, I have become like this?

Gao Hai silently stared at the steaming, twisted thing. He really couldn't imagine how this thing was made. But at this moment, it is right in front of him, and the vitality contained in it is so clear that Gao Hai can know its purpose even without touching it.

Using the vitality of a child to extend his own life?

Speaking of which, in the memory fragments I saw, the Li family did say that the Liu family had mastered the method of immortality. But they called the Liu family's immortality method the behavior of beasts. So it turned out to be such a beast?

To be honest, it's quite funny, especially thinking about the series of anthropomorphic operations of the Li family and their contempt for the Liu family. Gao Hai really finds it difficult to describe his feelings at this moment.

However, at least one thing can be clearly felt now.