Chapter 550

The distortions of these Liu family villagers were finally exposed in front of Gao Hai.

"How long have you been eating this kind of thing?"

Gao Hai stood up from his seat, looked at the thing on the table, and asked Liu Qigui very calmly.

【Um? Who would remember such a thing? It must have been hundreds of years ago, right? Okay, okay, don’t worry so much, sit down and eat together]

Liu Qigui answered cheerfully and took another sip of soup, with an extremely satisfied look on his face.

"Really? Did you start eating this food after you settled here in Xiaoheishan, or did you start eating it before coming here?"

Gao Hai didn't panic and just asked again.

[Hey, are you so obsessed with this matter? I can’t remember the specifics. It must have been after coming here, right? So you really don’t want to eat it? This is very precious food. We usually give such good things to the empress, so it’s hard to have any extra for your own enjoyment.】

Liu Qigui answered while taking another sip of soup. Seeing that no one at Gao Hai's side sat down to eat with him, he tried to persuade him very seriously.

"So, this precious ingredient was discovered by the Fox Lady for you?"

Gao Hai roughly understood, sighed, thought for a while and asked the last question.

[That's of course. Without the empress to tell us, we really didn't realize that there was something so delicious and nutritious. And, to tell you the truth, the benefits don’t stop there. Not only do these delicious ingredients taste great with a little processing, but they can also prolong your life. If you have any injuries on your body, such as broken limbs, blindness, deafness, or other incurable problems, you only need to pray to the empress, and then By offering some tribute, you can change the souls of yourself and the ingredients, and nothing will go wrong with you. Hey, this is just a waste of ingredients that took several years to cultivate, and it would be very troublesome to destroy your original body.】

It's like discussing something that can be seen everywhere in daily life, discussing very ordinary things.

From beginning to end, Liu Qigui's attitude when talking about "ingredients" is indistinguishable from talking about things like chickens, ducks, pigs, and dogs.

He sincerely thought this was normal.

Obviously when communicating with the players, his attitude was very kind, but when the topic changed to this thing, the man's change was abnormal to an indescribable degree.

But Gao Hai knew what was going on.

Although it may be strange to say this, he can already roughly understand what happened to these villagers.

"If you go crazy, you can't wake up. It's true that you can't wake up. How can you be saved after you've become like this?"

He sighed in a low voice, recalling what the watchman had said in his mind.

When the old Taoist leader Ge Yuan came to Xiaoheishan, the villagers of Liujia Village were probably in despair.

Their minds and consciousness have been fundamentally and completely alienated, and their common sense has been distorted to the point where they think that this kind of cruel behavior is normal and they will not think about it at all.

The root of this change does not lie with them, but with the Fox Queen they believe in.

The fox lady who guided the villagers to Xiaoheishan should have been a normal god at the beginning. She should be in much better condition than the mountain god who had lost himself. She might even be able to communicate with the villagers to a certain extent. , but its power cannot be mobilized to help the villagers survive the difficult period of land reclamation in order to seal the blood flower.

For some currently unknown reason, the existence of the Fox Lady began to be distorted. She began to use eating as a normal way of communication, and would naturally commit various horrific acts. As direct believers of the Fox Empress, all the villagers in Liujia Village have been fundamentally transformed, becoming undead who will actively eliminate their own descendants, and regard twisted behaviors that are impossible for any normal person to accept as common sense.

This transformation is, to be honest, difficult to understand.

But if you think about it carefully, Gao Hai can more or less understand the reason.

The villagers of Liujia Village have indeed fallen into complete madness. No matter what method is used, even forced brainwashing, they cannot change the common sense given to them by the power of gods.

But it was this common sense and this strange power of absorbing life force that enabled these villagers to achieve self-containment.

Yes, Gao Hai believed that this was a form of self-containment. Regardless of whether the villagers who made this decision understood this or not, they had actually completed self-containment.

As believers of the god Fox Queen who has completely lost control, all the villagers in Liujia Village are actually the best source of pollution after the Fox Queen is contaminated. But along with this deep-rooted alienation of thinking, first of all, the number of villagers will not fundamentally change. They can only decrease, but never increase. All the new generations of Liujia Village cannot truly grow and continue, which makes their spread under control.

Then, although it is unknown how they did it, Liujia Village has completely disappeared from the real world, and they are hidden even in the dungeon world. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for players to reach where they are, and the villagers have no idea how to get out of this secret environment. Of course, they actually have no idea of ​​leaving here. This isolation in time and space further promotes the perfection of containment, so that these villagers will not harm the real world for hundreds of years. Therefore, compared with the extremely anthropomorphic Li family, which has caused countless tragedies, the villagers of the Liu family can be said to be completely harmless.

The premise for achieving this step is that the "ingredients" have been consumed countless times.

Gao Hai can be sure that those "ingredients" are not believers of the Fox Goddess.

Although it was only a brief contact at the time, Gao Hai could clearly confirm through the release of his mental power that those children had nothing to do with the Fox Goddess and were not affected by the power of the gods. Unlike these villagers who have lived for who knows how many years, they are completely normal humans who have grown up in a very ordinary way, living in a false environment, and cannot really understand their future destiny.

Gao Hai did not ask whether the delicious meal of these villagers was cruel in the process of making.

Because from the breath that has not yet dissipated, he has already felt endless pain and despair, and the vitality that is further released with this strong emotion.

Not telling them their true fate, and then killing them cruelly when they grow up to the right time, so as to use their pain and despair before death to stimulate the release of vitality, so as to achieve a sufficient effect?

This is really, how to say it...

"Then, it's almost time for us to say goodbye. As for this "delicious meal", we are not used to this kind of food, so we won't stay for dinner."

In the end, Gao Hai just chose to say goodbye calmly.

It is meaningless to eliminate these villagers.

Although they still look like people, these guys are no longer real selves, and they can only continue to exist according to the distorted consciousness formed by the pollution of the fox lady.

This space is actually just one of the past time and space in the copy. No matter what changes they make here, as long as they go in and out of the well, everything will be reset to the beginning. The same villagers, the same children, the same "delicious meal", just repeating over and over again. As long as no one cracks this copy, it will continue to be an absurd drama until the end of the world.

What is really important is the information obtained from it.

Gao Hai can already determine what the third core obsession that has not been touched yet is.

In the hundreds of years of cycles, only one thing is accumulating, that is, the children as sacrifices and ingredients. Only they are constantly producing and consuming, and gradually accumulating painful and desperate obsessions over time. Although most of them will be fed to the fox lady and will be completely devoured from body to soul, the problem is that some of them will be consumed by the villagers. These are just those who have lost their bodies and their consciousness and obsessions may not be completely eliminated, which is the source of trouble.

The person who successfully restricted these obsessions was the old Taoist priest Ge Yuan. The paper figures he created created fake parents and a fake village for the children's obsession, thereby suppressing it and avoiding harm. Among these paper figures, there must be a key individual. This individual absorbed most of the obsessions, just as the wedding dress ghost became the representative of the sacrificial women in Lijia Village, and became the representative of the dead children. Gao Hai was sure that the third core obsession he needed to find should be this individual.

The question is, where will it be?

The paper figure village that was explored before... No, it won't be there. If the core obsession is really there, he can't fail to find it. And even if he insisted that he was controlled by the Fox Lady and Blood Flower and didn't investigate it in depth, there were still several other players who explored there, and as veteran Red Moon-level players, they couldn't fail to notice that there was a Red Moon-level core obsession hiding there.

Maybe, just like the past of [Liujia Village] was hidden, the core obsession they created corresponding to this village will also be hidden along with it.

If so, where will this hidden core be?

[Hey, why? Such delicious food, but you don't want to eat it? 】

Liu Qigui looked up in confusion and looked at Gao Hai and others.

"..."

Gao Hai didn't say anything.

He just suddenly recalled what Chacai said in the last week, what he did to successfully enter the [Liujia Village] area.

In order to successfully enter [Liujia Village], Chacai replaced himself with the existence of a paper man weirdo, so that he could hardly tell whether he was a paper man or a human...

The paper man made by Ge Yuan can really enter the [Liujia Village] area.

And later, they disguised themselves with the breath of the weirdo, and the breath they used was the breath of the weirdo in the Water Ghost Lake, and the breath of those weirdoes was also related to the paper man.

In addition, Chachai, who successfully entered the place by confusing his identity with the paper man's aura, felt that something very dangerous was watching him from the moment he entered, and he only stayed here for a while before he noticed the danger approaching. There is no way to accurately judge the source of the danger. We can only confirm that the other party has no entity and should be some kind of strange thing that acts in the form of an invisible resentful spirit.

These situations did not appear when Gao Hai entered this time. If he wanted to find out the reason for this difference, he estimated that the problem may lie in the fact that he really has the mark of the Fox Empress on his body. The aura of the Fox Empress resonated with the existence of [Liujia Village], so these villagers maintained a "normal" state for a longer period of time in front of Gao Hai, and when he realized certain problems, they had this understanding. Until now, they have not changed.

But now, Gao has realized the problem.

【Suck--~】

A paper man with the appearance of Liu Qigui took another sip of soup, but it only wetted his mouth to his neck and became wrinkled.

The air turned cold in an instant, and strong malice began to spread.

In the hall, no matter the tables and chairs, the walls or the ceiling, they all changed from their original appearance and became the structure of paper.

Then, the thing lying on the big dinner plate slowly raised its head and looked towards Gao Hai.

Chapter 117: The suppressed monsters and the distorted villagers

Regardless of whether it was Brother Cat or Tang Yuan, they were actually nervous for a while.

After all, the Red Moon-level core obsession-level monsters are already an extremely terrifying threat to them. Even if you assemble your own team to encounter a monster of this level, the result is often disastrous, and you must go all out to find a chance of survival.

Are you going to fight?

Do you want to go to war with this kind of thing in this strange place that you haven't learned about in advance?

Gee, is it really possible to win?

In this state of mind, both players were very nervous and quickly took out their obsessions, ready to fight and sacrifice.

In contrast, the true concubine was very relaxed and at ease. Even though she was actually the weakest compared to other players present, the aura of the Red Moon-level core that suddenly appeared had the most severe impact on her senses, but she showed no signs of worry or nervousness at all. .

In fact, she didn't even pay attention to the thing sitting up from the dining table, but continued to use the blessing of hearing to monitor the surroundings to prevent things that might come from other directions. In this girl's opinion, compared to this strange thing that is about to attack people, whether there may be something dangerous hidden outside is more important.

【Wow...wow...】

It was like the sound of a child sobbing quietly.

The terrifying, human-shaped thing was re-glued from the fragmented rotten flesh. At this moment, it stretched out its hand and was about to grab the players in front.

Gao Hai just raised his feet.

Boom!

Then he stepped directly on the thing's head, causing the dinner plate and table to explode. He stepped on the thing directly on the ground, and then stepped on it until the ground collapsed, almost pressing the thing's head on the ground. In the dirt, he looked like Axing, whose head was sunk into the floor after being beaten by Fire Cloud Evil God with a fist as big as a sandbag.

Blood-red light emerged in his pupils, and the power of emptiness covered his whole body, making Gao Hai's body looming like a phantom.

【Wow...waaaah...】

The shrill cries spread.

Various injuries appeared on Gao Hai's body in an instant. His skin and flesh were cut out of thin air, cooked, and even boiling soup flowed out of his body.

But the power of the rescue team's badge immediately came into action, and together with the power of blessing, it quickly repaired and restored the distorted parts of his body to their normal appearance.

[Waaaaah—waaaahhh—! ! ! 】

Amidst the cries that almost shattered the ears, the broken arms stretched out and directly grabbed Gao Hai's head, almost crushing it on the spot.

One after another, phantoms of children began to appear in the house, each one an incomplete fragment, each one wailing and screaming in extreme pain and despair.

But Gao Hai remained unmoved.

He just took out the persistent pen and started painting directly on the collapsed and cracked wall, and began to draw items related to this strange thing.

Even though the wails became intense in an instant, as sharp and harsh as countless children crying loudly at the same time, and were eroded by a strong smell of pollution, it did not stop Gao Hai's actions at all.

The humble pistol fell into another hand.

Bang!

A suppressing round was fired, causing the movement of the twisted thing to slow down, and the chaotic phantoms around it also disappeared without a trace.

Bang! ! !

The sound of the second suppressive bomb was accompanied by Gao Hai's spiritual power. At this time, Gao Hai had seen with his own eyes what this twisted monster looked like, understood how it was born, and arrived at the hidden place. The key area of ​​Seal Paper Village is under attack from this thing. As for the yet-to-be-clarified rules of ghost stories, Gao Hai also used his mental power and the obsessive blood pen to forcibly understand them, and tested out some of the rules, further enhancing the effect of the second suppressive bomb.

【Wow...woo...】

The terrifying creature struggled twice and finally calmed down.

Considering that Gao Hai was still stepping on its head, it was probably okay to say that it was in a peaceful state.

{It was done in an instant. It was really scary. Which side was the weird one...}

Tangyuan, who was ready to take action, was stunned when he saw this scene. Finally, he shook his head and put away the obsession again.

{Maybe I can really experience the feeling of being a newbie this time}

Brother Mao on the other side also felt a little emotional. He was getting more and more curious about Gao Hai, the mysterious and powerful man.

Close your eyes.

After successfully suppressing this thing that looked like a baby with two suppression bombs, but was actually cooked rotten meat glued together again, like molten mud, his mind was completely focused on the feedback of the pen of persistence. Through this blood pen that can empathize with the weird through painting, his mind began to delve into the past of this twisted weird and began to understand the formation process of this thing more and more deeply.

Completely different from the intelligence information obtained in Lijia Village, in this place, Gao Hai finally no longer only had a single village in the intelligence he obtained.

The original village established by the three families, Lijia... Liujia... and Zhangjia, was fully displayed in Gao Hai's consciousness.

In the initial moment, there was no such thing as [Lijia Village], [Liujia Village] or [Zhangjia Village]. Although the three families were indeed always in a state of cohesion with each other, and their residences were separated to a certain extent from other families, in general, the village at this time was indeed a whole.

And its name was [Yingti Village].

Was it really this name?

Gao Hai was not surprised by this, after all, he had already heard of the name [Yingti Village]. Those paper figures who asked for directions, that is, the paper figures made by the old Taoist priest Ge Yuan, would constantly ask others about the location of the village and pull those who interacted with them into other spaces.

The rules of action of these paper figures and strange creatures had undergone major changes, so many places were obviously different from the initial state. But considering that the obsessions generated by Liujia Village are all strange creatures that have a certain degree of cognitive ability, if the questions and answers of the paper figures have some special rule effects that target strange creatures rather than living people, they will definitely be able to get answers from these children's strange creatures. In other words, this question is actually a screening process, a process of finding specific strange creatures and binding them.

It is really a terrible old man who can design such a thing. Unfortunately, compared with the anthropomorphic things in this village, an old Taoist priest alone is far from enough.

The core part about Yingti Village itself is not much, after all, the children who are the source of their obsessions were born at a time when the village has been established and operated for more than hundreds of years. They don’t have a deep impression of things before, at most they have heard some stories told by some old people. Therefore, Gao Hai has no way to trace the history too far back through this strange creature, but even so he can determine a lot of useful information.

For example, in the earliest [Yingti Village], the villagers of the three families of Li, Liu and Zhang all believed in the Fox Goddess.

Before the black stone formed by the power of the mountain god of Xiaohei Mountain was dug out from the [Ghost Crying Cave], the Li family and the Zhang family followed the Liu family in believing in the Fox Goddess. Regardless of whether this belief was true or false, at least on the surface, the three families only recognized this one god.